The Cohort Sistas Podcast
The Cohort Sistas Podcast is an empowering and enlightening podcast that holds space for Black women and nonbinary doctoral degree holders to share their stories, experiences, and expertise. Each episode features an engaging interview on a wide range of topics, including academic trajectory, application process, mentorship, funding, career development, mental health, and social issues. Hosted by Cohort Sistas Founder and Executive Director Dr. Ijeoma Kola, The Cohort Sistas Podcast is known for its authentic and relatable approach, providing listeners with valuable insights, practical advice, and a sense of community. Whether you're looking for inspiration, encouragement, or simply a thought-provoking conversation, this podcast is a must-listen for aspiring doctors seeking to connect, learn, and thrive.
Cohort Sistas provides digital resources, mentorship, and community to improve equity in doctoral education. While our programs and platform are open to all doctoral students, applicants, and degree holders, we prioritize and center the needs and perspectives of Black women and nonbinary scholars.
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The Cohort Sistas Podcast
Dr. Wenimo Okoya on Immersing Yourself in the Communities You Study and Healing Teachers to Help Students
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Today’s guest, Dr. Wenimo Okoya, has a foot in both health and education, having worked as a classroom teacher in Harlem and the Bronx, received a Masters degree in public health and an EdD in health education. In this episode, she shares the details of her dissertation on why community schools hesitate to adopt trauma sensitive practices, and describes some of the elements that contribute to creating an unhealthy school environment, including labeling, racism, yelling, and repeated isolation without the appropriate support. We touch on mentorship and community and Dr. Okoya tells us about the network of people she developed during her time at Columbia University, before explaining why she chose to work and study at the same time, to make sure that her research was relevant. Next, Dr. Okoya tells us how her definition of community became broader than just the university, why her proposal defence was one of the biggest successes of her doctoral experience, and the problem of many highly ranked universities being located in urban neighborhoods. She lets us know what led her to work as an adjunct professor, and gives us the full scoop on the Healing Project, which she started with a view to heal teachers to empower their students. We hope you join us today to hear all this and more!
Connect with Dr. Wenimo Okoya on LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, and on her website, and learn more about The Healing Schools Project here.
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