Jelisa Clark

Jelisa Clark is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Interdisciplinary Studies at Fayetteville State University. Her areas of expertise include Applied Sociology, Black Feminism, Education, and Race. Jelisa prioritizes community-engaged scholarship. Her current projects revolve around anti-Blackness in education and the experiences of Black youth throughout the K-20 pipeline and the discourses informing our understandings of them. She has published this line of research in journals such as City & Community, DuBois Review, and Journal of Negro Education.