Her research documents, analyzes, and interrogates black girls’ lived experiences as it intersects with cultural constructions of black girlhood. She is developing her second book project, The Black Girl Community Handbook: Creating Accountable Truths, an ethnographic account of the creative processes black girls rely on to make intelligible the ways power, spirituality, memory, and performativity structure meanings of belonging. As an agent of change, she values the leadership development of her students and as a professor, she is committed to making the “classroom” a transformative public space that relates to and resonates with students’ experiences by incorporating their intellect, interests, and talents into the course content. [Lena Foote, FM 2.3, 2011]