(A)Broad in Education

SHOW NOTES:
This week on the podcast is TK McLennon, a Canadian-born writer and author of the book TailBlAsian, Black Women Living in East Asia. McLennon’s book, an anthology based on the voices of 17 women of color who decided to get out of the rat race, off the beaten path and blaze new trails in East Asia, is the 3rd within the series, The EDpat Literature Review. Without further delay, please enjoy my conversation with TK McLennon.
RESOURCES:
Purchase TrailBlasian and other books authored by TK at www.trailblasian.com
SOCIAL MEDIA HANDLES: @culturiousity.com
BRIEF BIO: TK McLennon (she, hers, her) works with students, faculty and staff at a university in the Niagara Region of Canada as an Intercultural Communications Coordinator and currently serves on her city's advisory committee for equity and inclusion. She is a former assistant professor in the School of International Studies at the University of Ulsan in South Korea and a former instructor of Global Management Studies at Ryerson University. Her experience traveling to 18 and living in five different countries allowed her to learn varying degrees of five languages, cultivate a passion for all things intercultural and nurture a deep commitment to equity and inclusion. She has a BA in Communications, an MBA, and a certificate in Adult Training and Development. She’s a Globesmart Certified Facilitator, a Flip The Script Campus Trainer, an ICedge Certified Trainer, a qualified IDI administrator, and a Certified Training and Development Professional (CTDP). TK is a proud AfroJamaiCanadian mom of one living on Turtle Island looking to be a good ancestor and leave the world a little better for future generations.
(A)Broad in Education is produced by Tiffany Lachelle Smith, Music by Reallionaire Jream. You can access Lady Justice on his Post Cards Album on Sound Cloud. Music from Pixabay.com.
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How did there come to be so few African American educators in the US PK-12 system? In 1950, half of all Black professionals in the United States (US) were teachers, compared to less than a quarter of white professionals (Cole, 1986). Yet, according to the National Center of Educational Statistics, of the 3.8 million teachers in the US teaching profession during the 2017/18 school year, African American teachers only represented 250,000. African American teachers are entering the education system, but factors contributing to why we leave are at the center of many educational scholars' research agendas.
In partnership with the Community of Scholars Program (COSP) at the University of Minnesota, in this episode, listen as Tiffany Lachelle takes you through her attrition story. She reveals details about her decision, and the decision of some other African American teachers in the United Arab Emirates, to leave the US PK-12 profession for teaching opportunities abroad. The full transcript of this episode can be found on SPARK.
Part 1: Introduction
Dubai to AmsterdamPart 2: Study Abroad as an Identity (Re)formation-2:47
Part 3: Research Question and the Background of Black American Teachers- 6:08
Part 4: Black American Expatriates- James Baldwin- 8:50
Amsterdam to DetroitPart 5: Background of the International School Market- 14:06
Part 6: Safety as a Factor to Remain in the United Arab Emirates- 20:00
Detroit to St. LouisPart 7: Podcasting as Storytelling: Where are the Teacher Conversations? - 23:20
Part 8: Significant Layovers between Departures and Arrivals - I'm Home- 28:30
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(A)Broad in Education is produced by Tiffany Lachelle Smith, Editing by Layne Bower, Music by Reallionaire Jream. You can access Lady Justice on his Post Cards Album on Sound Cloud. Music by Pixabay and Epedimic Sound.

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SHOW NOTES:
In the previous episode, I shared a story about my recent personal experience in a romance scam with Kevin G. I received several responses from personal stories to those who simply wanted to express support. Thank you.
In this week’s episode, rather than focusing on how to avoid a romance scam, I came together with K.D. Caldwell, the author of the book When Swiping Right Went Wrong to discuss the “how and why” as it relates to both of us finding ourselves entangled within similar situations— romance scams initiated over dating apps.
BRIEF BIO:
K.D. Caldwell (she, her, hers) is a New York based counselor, academic advisor, and business owner. Featured on multiple news outlets and at your nearest event with her Photobooth business, writing a novel was always on her bucket list. With her latest book When Swiping Right Went Wrong that dream became a reality. When not absorbed in the latest gripping page-turning book, K.D. loves cooking, working on her businesses, and traveling the world.
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SOCIAL MEDIA HANDLES: IG: @KerellewithaK
(A)Broad in Education is produced by Tiffany Lachelle Smith, Music by Reallionaire Jream. You can access Lady Justice on his Post Cards Album on Sound Cloud. Music by Pixabay.
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SHOW NOTES:
This is the fifth episode in the EDpat Literature Review Series, which focuses on documented literature that centers that Black EDpatriate and black travel narratives. This week we’ll hear from Dr. Karyn Flynn, an Associate professor in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies and the Department of African-American Studies Program at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Flynn received her Ph.D. in Women's Studies from York University, Toronto, Ontario. Her research interests include migration and travel, Black Canada, health, popular culture, feminism, and diasporic and post-colonial studies.
 We discuss her book Moving Beyond Borders: Black Canadian and Caribbean women in the African Canadian Diaspora, which was published by the University of Toronto and won the Lavinia L. Dock Award from the American Association of the History of Nursing.

We also discussed Dr. Flynn's current and second book project that maps the travel itineraries of young Black EFL teachers across borders. This is significant because Dr. Flynn wrote the forward for the book TrailBlAsian: Black Women living in South Asia, which includes narratives from some Black EFL teachers in South Korea. If you haven’t listened, be sure to go back to episode 39, an interview with TK Mclennon, the curator of the book Trailblasian and episode 41, an interview with Kenya Evans, one of the book chapter authors. I hope you all enjoy the episode as much as I do. Without further delay please enjoy my conversation with Dr. Karen Flynn.

 SOCIAL MEDIA HANDLES AND PROFILE LINKS: https://afro.illinois.edu/directory/profile/kcflynn
Twitter. @KarenFlynnPhD

RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

Brown, N. M., Mendenhall, R., Black, M., Moer, M. V., Flynn, K., McKee, M., Zerai, A., Lourentzou, I., & Zhai, C. X. (2019). In Search of Zora/When Metadata Isn’t Enough: Rescuing the Experiences of Black Women Through Statistical Modeling. Journal of Library Metadata, 19(3-4), 141-162. https://doi.org/10.1080/19386389.2019.1652967

Flynn, K., & Fladejebi, F. (2019). Writing black canadian women's history: Where we have been and where we are going. In Reading Canadian Women's and Gender History (pp. 63-89). University of Toronto press.

Flynn, K. (2018). "Hotel Refuses Negro Nurse": Gloria Clarke Baylis and the Queen Elizabeth Hotel. Canadian bulletin of medical history = Bulletin canadien d'histoire de la medecine, 35(2), 278-308. https://doi.org/10.3138/cbmh.256-042018

Flynn, K. (2017). Reconfiguring Black Internationalism: English as Foreign Language Teachers of African Descent in South Korea. Journal of African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage, 6(3), 262-283. https://doi.org/10.1080/21619441.2017.1385960

Brown, N. M., Mendenhall, R., Black, M. L., Moer, M. V., Zerai, A., & Flynn, K. (2016). Mechanized Margin to Digitized Center: Black Feminism's Contributions to Combatting Erasure within the Digital Humanities. International Journal of Humanities & Arts Computing: A Journal of Digital Humanities, 10(1), 110-125. https://doi.org/10.3366/ijhac.2016.0163

Flynn, K. (2011). Moving Beyond Borders: A History of Black Canadian and Caribbean Women in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 
 
 (A)Broad in Education is produced by Tiffany Lachelle Smith, Music by Reallionaire Jream. You can access Lady Justice on his Post Cards Album on Sound Cloud. Music by Pixabay.