Dr. Dawn Hicks Tafari

Author

Passionate about the arts, culture, and education, Dawn is a ScholarActivist who has served as an elementary school teacher, a curriculum facilitator, an educational consultant, and currently serves as an Associate Professor of Education and Coordinator for the Elementary Education Program at Winston-Salem State University. Dawn is a HipHop Feminist whose research interests include Black Feminist Thought, Black men elementary school teachers, HipHop culture’s influence on identity development, critical race theory, and Kwanzaa as a site of resistance. The author of dozens of journal articles and book chapters, Dawn’s highly acclaimed book, The Journey of Kamau Miller: HipHop Composite Counterstories for Black Men Teachers, was released in November 2023.