Neisha Terry Young
Assistant Professor
Affordances of multiliteracies in supporting the intersectional identities of Black
immigrant youth
neisha.terryyoung@stonybrook.edu
- Biography
biography
Professor Young joins us as part of the English Teacher Education Program. She has
been an educator for 19 years and has taught middle and high school English in Jamaica
and the United States. She also has experience as an instructor in teacher-preparation
programs at Drexel University and Temple University. She earned her teaching diploma
from Shortwood Teachers’ College in Jamaica (with honors), her Bachelor of Arts in
English from Georgia State University (Summa Cum Laude), her Master of Arts in English
from Southern New Hampshire University, and her PhD in Education Policy and Leadership
from Drexel University.
Professor Young’s research explores the affordances of multiliteracies in supporting
the intersectional identities of Black immigrant youth. She has received various recognitions
and awards for her work, including the Drexel University School of Education Ann Marie
Weil Award (2022), the English Language Arts Teacher Education (ELATE) graduate student
research award (2022), the Robert Blake Memorial Scholarship from the International
Congress for Critical Pedagogy and Transformative Leadership, and a 2024 MAXQDA Research
for Change: Black History Month grant. She is the Director of the VOICE Lab, a new
research lab in the English department, which aims to be a collaborative hub that
provides platforms for the crafting and amplifying of immigrant narratives.
|
