))
God Said It Was Time with Donna Druery
Manage episode 433944463 series 3592595
Content provided by Asia Lyons and Dr. Asia Lyons. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by Asia Lyons and Dr. Asia Lyons or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://ppacc.player.fm/legal.
Being a Black educator in the American system of schooling will test the faith of the strongest. In this powerful episode, Doctoral candidate Donna Druery (who has her defense the day after this episode!) shares the long journey through education that ultimately ended with her departure. She shares upsetting experiences, ranging from the hostile to the absurd. An excellent educator once highly recruited and touted as exceptional in her context, she experienced what so many Black educators experience. Her professionalism was not simply questioned, but outright attacked. She was the subject of gossip among White teachers. For over a decade she found herself in a textbook abusive relationship with her job. At times, she felt that we were turning a corner only to find herself attacked again.
Listeners will find resonance with Donnas story. The constant strategizing simply to be heard in her community the physical manifestations of her racial battle trauma.
Through it all Donnas faith carried her to a degree that is jarring and powerful. Dont miss this episode of the Exit Interview!
71 episodes
Share
