Dasmen Richards

Dasmen Richards is a PhD candidate in the K-12 Educational Administration Program at Michigan State University. She received a bachelor’s degree in Foreign Affairs and African American & African Studies from the University of Virginia. After completing her undergraduate degree, she served as a college advisor in Virginia, where she assisted seniors with their post-secondary plans. This job sparked her pursuit to obtain her Ph.D. when she saw the myriads of ways Black students are disproportionately disadvantaged in K-12 educational spaces. She is a proud native from Fayetteville, GA (a suburb outside of Atlanta), which has a strong influence on her work as she thinks about the ways race (Black), gender (woman), and place (suburbs) shape other Black girls’ lived experiences within educational spaces. Specifically, her research interests are centered around how Black girls engage in storytelling to reclaim and disrupt narratives, with a focus on their educational experiences. Ultimately, her goal is to pursue a career as a tenure-track professor at a research university.