Danelle Adeniji

Danelle Adeniji, Ph.D. (they/them), is a recent Curriculum and Instruction graduate from the University of North Texas. Dr. Adeniji’s primary research is situated through a queer, Black, and Afrofuturist lens, which intersects with early childhood, teacher education, and literacy development. Their research illustrates the way traditional teacher education programs can draw from a queer Afrofuturistic lens to co-construct curricula and pedagogical practices, where everyone has access to dream and see their future. As a queer Afrofuturist Black feminist teacher and researcher, Dr. Adeniji aims to continue these collaborations and support teachers and students as they wade through politically driven policies and practices stripping them of fundamental humanizing rights.

As Black Panther, Fred Hampton quoted Argentine Marxist Revolutionary Che Guevara in Judas and the Black Messiah,

“Words are beautiful but actions are supreme.”