Menah Pratt, JD, PhD, author of Blackwildgirl

As 2024 ends, I'm gifted with the opportunity to lead a new office at @virginia_tech -- the Office for Inclusive Strategy and Excellence. I'm excited to lead both strategy affairs and InclusiveVT initiatives in one new office. news.vt.edu/articles/2024/…

@HIRSlab @VT_ACT @vtgeosciences @VT_Science @EOI_lab Esther was awesome

Congratulations Esther (not on X) for winning in the @VT_ACT nutshell games. So proud of you. The evening was so much fun as well. Also Congrats to Rose and Prescott, also from @vtgeosciences students winning a prize at the nutshell games this year. @VT_Science @EOI_lab

Blackwildgirl had an amazing time chatting with @TaNehisiCoates8 -- the incredible, brilliant, sensitive, committed to justice and courage, and dedicated to using his pen and books to transform the world. @ArtscenteratVT

We did it! We ushered another Black woman across the dissertation finish line! As chair of her dissertation committee, please welcome Dr. @Anza Mitchell to the academy! Thanks @WalterLeePhD @NicolePitterson @LaneTonisha B. Lane, PhD on the all Black dissertation committee!

I'm interviewing @TaNehisiCoates8 at @ArtscenteratVT on Friday at @virginia_tech and I've been reading and preparing...

A new blog post on power, voting, democracy, and centering women and girls, with a book review of @nrookie biography of Mary McLeod Bethune @bethunecookman menahpratt.com/why-we-must-he…

Excited to head to my alma mater @VanderbiltU to share Blackwildgirl and give thanks to the university where I earned three degrees: MA, PhD, and JD and to Nashville, the city where my children were born, where I taught in the prisons and learned more than in school!

@BerondaM Thank you for watching and for your amazing scholarship

Today at 3:00 EST zoom only sharing strategies and tools as a scholar-activist: rutgers.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

By resolution, we honor Indigenous Peoples' Day at Virginia Tech and acknowledge the historical and continuing relationship with Native communities and nations. news.vt.edu/articles/2024/…

A new blog post inspired by @rgay and her book on #Audre Lorde sharing the power of reading to inspire writing. menahpratt.com/translating-an…

Register at: rutgers.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Inspired by this Audre Lorde quote, “For the master’s tool will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change" I will deliver a virtual only lecture October 16th 3:00 EST.

We are doing amazing work at Virginia Tech advancing access and success for all faculty, staff, and students, especially those who have been historically disadvantaged. Visit news.vt.edu/articles/2024/… to read more.

Excited to share #blackwildgirl in #pittsburgh this week at @ASALH with a Black girlhood panel with @Aria Halliday and @Claudine Taaffe and at @homewood library

Grateful to the @umnlib for open access publishing this ongoing series. Please share broadly these powerful letters from those who refuse to be silent and silenced. We will continue to solicit letters for this ongoing project open.lib.umn.edu/dearhighereduc…

Grateful to the @umnli open.lib.umn.edu/dearhighereduc…

I'm interviewing Ta-Nehesi Coates for "An Evening with Ta-Nehesi Coates" on November 1 at Virginia Tech! Gotta get ready! Let the reading begin! @ArtscenteratVT

This summer I was privileged to visit my first-ever refugee camp in Uganda. It was a powerful experience and this awesome article really shares the challenges for 32,000 mostly women and children. hersea.org/news/news-and-…

VT is hiring a project manager for Strategic Affairs. A great opportunity for a stay-at-home mom who has awesome organizational skills. 32 hours, mostly remote, with benefits. Deadline September 15th. careers.pageuppeople.com/968/cw/en-us/j…