The Exit Interview: A Podcast for Black Educators
The Exit Interview: A Podcast for Black Educators aims to document and honor the lived experiences of Black educators who have decided to leave the profession. Rooted in archival justice, the podcast elevates their stories as a powerful form of truth-telling, healing, and resistance. It serves as an oral history archive capturing the experiences of Black educators across the U.S. By highlighting Black voices and their reasons for leaving or staying, it ignites important conversations about wellness, racial battle fatigue, and what is needed to transform educational spaces into environments where Black educators can thrive.
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Saying No To Unconditional Service with Dr. Jessica Reed-Thomas
Her closing words? Joy chaser. And she means it. Born in Anchorage, raised to become a lawyer, and fully resistant to the classroom, Jessica Reed-Thomas, Ed.D., fought off teaching for years. Then, a mentor, a university empl...
"All Skinfolk Ain't Kinfolk" with Nye Trusty
Nye Trusty brings a candid, layered, and deeply necessary conversation about identity, belonging, and why representation without inclusion is just window dressing.She's worn many names and even more hats: teacher, coach, doctoral student, and now nonprofit founder. In this episode, she gets raw a…
Out of the Frying Pan into the Fire with Kamye Hugley
Kamye Hugley is back, and this time, she's talking about what happens when you trade the classroom for the nonprofit world. Fan favorite Kamye returns to The Exit Interview to share her truth about making the leap from Black educator to nonprofit professional.Spoiler: it wasn't the escape she i…
More Than A Diversity Hire with Dr. Melissa Leonard-Goodlett
Melissa Leonard-Goodlett, EdD. knew she was a diversity hire. She took the job anyway because she was also the most qualified person in the room.In this episode of The Exit Interview, Dr. Melissa breaks down a career that went from dyslexic kid playing teacher with her siblings, to AP English i…
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Parent Entitlement is a Black Educator Retention Issue
When The Harm Follows You: Black Educators, Nonprofits and Racial Battle Fatigue
More Than A Diversity Hire with Dr. Melissa Leonard-Goodlett
Out of the Frying Pan into the Fire with Kamye Hugley
Saying No To Unconditional Service with Dr. Jessica Reed-Thomas
When Black Educators Lose The Fight
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Parent Entitlement is a Black Educator Retention Issue
From Letters from the LabWhen Melissa Leonard-Goodlett, EdD. talked about working in a school run by parents, the first image that came to mind was a screenshot.Screenshots from a group chat I was never supposed to see.A Black mother let me kn…
When The Harm Follows You: Black Educators, Nonprofits and Racial Bat…
From, Letters from the LabThe morning before I was fired from my last job at a nonprofit organization, I stood in front of my bathroom mirror and asked myself a question:Do you want to stay or do you want to go?I remember looking at myself and…
When Black Educators Lose The Fight
There’s a moment when a Black educator realizes they are not just tired…they have exhausted all of their options.I heard that moment in real time during a recent conversation on The Exit Interview: A Podcast for Black Educators.…
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