Jamila Lyiscott aka, Dr. J, is an award-winning professor, internationally published author, and nationally renowned speaker. She is most-well known for her viral TED talk ‘3 Ways to Speak English,’ which has been viewed over 5.5 million times. Dr. J is the author of Black Appetite. White Food: Issues of Race, Voice, and Justice Within and Beyond the Classroom, and the soon-to-be-released The Cost of Code-switching and How We Get Free. Dr. J’s research and activism work together to explore, assert, and defend the value of Black life globally.

In her commitment to public scholarship, Dr. J has been featured across multiple media outlets including Hulu, NPR, TED, NowThis Media, Cosmopolitan, and Spike Lee’s ‘2 Fists Up.’ Dr. J’s work has also been published in a range of leading academic journals including, Review of Research in Education, Action Research, The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, English Journal, and more. She holds multiple faculty fellowships and is the recipient of multiple national and international awards.