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Neisha Terry Young

David Heska Wanbli Weiden

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.