Lisa R MerriweatherLisa R. Merriweather is an associate professor of adult education at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, and Co-founder and Senior Editor of Dialogues in Social Justice: An Adult Education Journal. She received her PhD in AdultEducation with a graduate certificate in Qualitative Inquiry from the University of Georgia in 2004. Her research interests include: anti-Black racism and race pedagogy; equity and social justice in adult education; and mentoring in doctoral education. Dr. Merriweather is dedicated to the project of communalism, and is guided by the spirits of Sankofa and Ubuntu that provide the ideological culturally informed grounding for the work in which she engages. Read More Read Less