About

Ijeoma is an educator, artist, and writer. She currently works at Georgetown University as the Senior Project Associate for Equity-Centered Design at the Red House and the Inclusive Pedagogy Specialist for the Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics. As an educator, she specializes in inclusive pedagogy and anti-bias education for student, faculty, and staff audiences. During her time as a graduate student in the Learning, Design, and Technology program, she worked at Georgetown’s Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship coaching faculty in inclusive teaching practices as well as creating and facilitating workshops in topics such as building antiracist institutions and positive racial identity development in the classroom. Inspired by the power of arts and museum education, she also curated (In)Visibility at Georgetown: Past, Present, and Future, an art exhibit highlighting the work and experiences of marginalized students at Georgetown as an educational experience.

Originally from Minnesota, Ijeoma began her career in education as undergraduate student at Brown University, spending her summers teaching middle school students math and Swedish. Prior to Georgetown, she worked at Bunker Hill Community College training student peer mentors in cultural competency and academic engagement as a retention model for nontraditional incoming students.

As a writer, Ijeoma is an alumna of the Hurston/Wright, Kimbilio Fiction, VONA/Voices of Our Nations, and GrubStreet’s Novel Generator programs. Published in the Embark Literary Journal, Auburn Avenue, and the Teaching Tolerance blog, she is currently working on her first novel.