Veneice Guillory-Lacy, PhD (she/her)
Assistant Professor, Educational Leadership
Dr. Lacy’s research focuses on amplifying the voices of women of color in K-12 educational leadership, promoting social justice leadership, emancipatory leadership, freedom dreaming that leads to transformative education, and centering race and gender. She uses critical qualitative methods, while drawing from Critical Race Theory (CRT), Critical Race Feminism (CRF), Intersectionality, Black Feminist Thought, and Indigenous epistemologies.
Education
- Ph.D., Cultural Studies and Social Thought in Education, Washington State University
Recent Presentations
- Working Woke: Women of Color in Educational Leadership, (AERA) American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA, April 17-21, 2020
- Fighting for Ourselves and Our Children: Black Mother-Scholars, Anti- Blackness, and STEM, (AESA) American Educational Studies Association, Baltimore, MA, Oct. 30-Nov. 3rd, 2019
- #Blackgirlmagic: Solange's "A Seat at the Table" Album and the Art of Storytelling, Globalization, Diversity and Education Conference, Spokane, WA, Feb 28-Mar.1, 2019
- K-12 Institutional Sexism & Racism: A Personal Story, Alhadeff Future Teachers of Color Conference, Washington State University, Feb. 25th, 2017
Online Resources
- Dr. Guillory-Lacy co-coordinated the Summer 2021 SJSU x REP4 Learner Design Summit
Areas of Research Interest
- BIPOC women K-12 leaders
- Black Feminist Thought
- Critical Race Feminism (CRF)
- Critical Race Theory (CRT)
- Educational leadership
- Indigenous epistemologies
- Intersectionality
Recommended Reading
- Power and Place: Indian Education in America by Vine Deloria Jr. and
Daniel R. Wildcat - Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois
- Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by bell hooks
Personality Playlist
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