Project Team

The “Black Like Me” project team is co-led by faculty members in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction in collaboration with partners internal and external to Howard University.

Dr. Katherine Norris, Professor and Chair of the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, co-leads the annual international study tour and the qualitative research components of the project.

Dr. Nathan Alexander, Assistant Professor and instructor of the EDUC 480: International Internship and Special Topics seminar, leads project collaborations and the quantitative research components of the project.

Dr. Alicia Renix, Faculty and Director of Teacher Education, will lead teacher education collaborations.

You can view faculty experts here; faculty will support diaspora literacy in the different disciplinary areas.

Advisory Board

• Dr. Helen Bond, Department of Curriculum and Instruction (Board Chair)
• Dr. Tonija Hope, Director of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for International Affairs
  
• Dr. Krista Johnson, Director of the Center for African Studies
• Dr. Gregory Carr, Department of Afro-American Studies
• Dr. Tadios Belay, Director of the U.S. Africa Institute
• Dr. Malik Henfield, Director of the Institute for Racial Justice