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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.
Kai Hamer's journey from aspiring rapper to special education teacher to parent engagement director is a love letter to the Bronx. Starting in shelters and after-school programs, she spent 10+ years teaching in her own neighborhood, collecting kids from behind soda machines, visiting grandmothers w…
This conversation is a testament to how classroom teaching can birth movements that extend far beyond what we could ever imagine.In this episode, Dr. Asia sits down with Latoya Turner, M.A., a Detroit-born educator, author, and filmmaker who spent 13 years in the classroom before pivoting to crea…
What does it mean to be the only Black teacher at the table year after year?In this powerful episode of The Exit Interview: A Podcast for Black Educators, Dr. Asia Lyons sits down with Monika Robinson, a former public school teacher, instructional coach, nonprofit leader, and founder of Reparat…
In a recent episode of The Exit Interview: A Podcast for Black Educators, I spoke with Latoya Turner, an educator, author, and founder of Brown Hands Literacy. During our conversation, she said something that stayed with me long after we stopped rec…
In a recent episode of The Exit Interview, Whitney Tolliver shared a story that is celebrated in education: perfect attendance as an expectation. During new staff orientation, her principal stood in front of the room and proudly declared:She had b…
This weekend, I started reading Sisters of the Yam by bell hooks. In the opening chapters, she writes about truth-telling as a form of self-recovery, a way for Black women to begin healing by naming what has been carried in silence. Those page…
