Wilson K. Okello

  • Assistant Professor of Higher Education and Director of the Black Study in Education Lab, Penn State

Wilson Kwamogi Okello (he/him) is an assistant professor of higher education at Penn State University, a research associate at the Center for the Study of Higher Education, and director of the Black Study in Education Lab. Dr. Okello is a transdisciplinary artist and scholar who is concerned with how Black critical approaches make visible the epistemic foundations that structure what it means to be human and imagining otherwise possibilities for Black being therein. Widely published, he is author of On Blackness, Liveliness, and What It Means to Be Human: Toward Black Specificity in Higher Education (SUNY Press).

Experience

  • –present
    Assistant Professor of (Higher) Education and Director of the Black Study in Education Lab, Penn State

Education

  • 2018 
    Miami University, Educational Leadership

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