Season 2 guests

Roderick L. Carey, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Sciences, in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Delaware. His research tries to make sense of the school experiences of Black and Latino adolescent boys in urban contexts. Dr. Carey researches and writes about issues related to families and schools, teacher education, professional development for equity, Black Boy Mattering, and the ways Black and Latino adolescent boys conceptualize their postsecondary school futures and enact college-going processes. 

Dr. Carey is the Founder and Director of The Black Boy Mattering Project, a high school partnership study that investigates how adolescent Black boys and young men articulate their mattering across multiple school and social domains. This work is primarily funded through his University of Delaware Partnership for Public Education Fellowship, the National Academy of Education/ Spencer Research Development Award, and the Spencer Foundation Small Grant Award.

Dr. Carey received his Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction with a concentration on Minority and Urban Education, from the University of Maryland College Park; his Ed.M. in Human Development and Psychology from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education; and his B.A. in Secondary Education and English from the Lynch School of Education and Human Development of Boston College. Dr. Carey is a native of Wilmington, DE. 

Jennifer Markides, PhD, is a member of the Métis Nation of Alberta, Tier II Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Youth Wellbeing and Education, and an Assistant Professor in both the Werklund School of Education and the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Calgary. Her research and teaching focuses on the holistic wellbeing of youth and Indigenous education. Critical pedagogy, arts creation, and ethical engagement are at the heart of her practices. She values relationship building and prioritizes listening in community-led projects, allowing her to be responsive to the immediate goals and long-term visions of Indigenous communities.

Jeremy C. Young is the senior manager of free expression and education at PENAmerica. In this role, he advances PEN America’s advocacy for free expression in educational institutions, advocates against censorious legislation and politically-motivated efforts to ban books and curricular materials, and supports academic freedom in higher education and the freedom to read, learn, and teach in K-12 schools. A former history professor, Young holds a Ph.D. in U.S. history from Indiana University and is the author of The Age of Charisma: Leaders, Followers, and Emotions in American Society, 1870-1940 (Cambridge University Press, 2017). He was a 2021 New Leaders Council Fellow and a recipient of the Roger D. Bridges Distinguished ServiceAward from the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.