Dr. Green Speaks Podcast - From Urban Poverty to a Ph.D
Arts & Culture Podcasts
Dr. Green interviews the world’s intellectual, business, and entertainment icons and shares his take on life, scholarship, and pop culture through the lens of an African American that has moved from the poverty-stricken projects of Brooklyn New York toward and beyond the upper tiers of academic and corporate spaces. This funny and witty provocateur is armed with a fearless sense of openness, fairness, and equity.
Location:
United States
Genres:
Arts & Culture Podcasts
Description:
Dr. Green interviews the world’s intellectual, business, and entertainment icons and shares his take on life, scholarship, and pop culture through the lens of an African American that has moved from the poverty-stricken projects of Brooklyn New York toward and beyond the upper tiers of academic and corporate spaces. This funny and witty provocateur is armed with a fearless sense of openness, fairness, and equity.
Language:
English
Episodes
Dr. Samaad Keys of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: Building Human Capital through Educational Innovation
5/4/2022
Dr. Samaad Wes Keys is an experiential educator, coach, facilitator, connector, and fierce advocate for education equity. In his current role as Program Officer at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Samaad manages a portfolio of over $50 million of investments that seek to scale institutional transformation to eradicate race, ethnicity, and income as predictors of success on the Foundation’s postsecondary success team.
Before joining the Foundation, Samaad has worked in several...
Duration:00:58:29
Youngest Ph.D Candidate in DSU’s 130 Year-History | Dr. Jalaal Hayes
3/16/2022
Dr. Jalaal Hayes published a dissertation entitled, “Thermodynamic and Kinetic Studies of Alkali-Metal Doped Lithium Amide-Magnesium Hydride Hydrogen Storage System” in Applied Chemistry. He was 22 years old. The degree was conferred on December 20, 2015, at Delaware State University winter commencement as he was lauded as “the youngest-ever Doctoral Candidate” in the university’s 130-year history.
Since that historic milestone, Dr. Hayes has been featured in various publications including...
Duration:00:39:53
From Belize to Cornell University Fighting disease and Making a difference - Dr. Avery August
3/7/2022
Avery August is Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor, Professor of Immunology, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, and a Presidential Advisor on Diversity and Equity at Cornell University. He received a BS in Medical Technology from California State University at Los Angeles, a Ph.D. in Immunology from Cornell University’s Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, and a post-doctoral fellowship at the Rockefeller University as a National Science Foundation Post-Doctoral...
Duration:00:43:14
From security guard to Ph.D/MD - Dr. Russell J. Ledet
3/5/2022
Dr. Russell J. Ledet (pronounced “Leh-day”) is a native of Lake Charles, Louisiana.
Prior to his education journey, Dr. Ledet was enlisted in the U.S. Navy, both on active and reserve duty. His first assignment was as a U.S. Navy Ceremonial Guardsman in the Nation’s Capital from 2004 to early 2007. He subsequently completed Navy cryptology training in Pensacola, Florida, and was later assigned to the USS John L. Hall (FFG-32), based in Mayport, Florida. Dr. Ledet has been awarded multiple...
Duration:00:57:06
Drugs, Poverty, Stanford, and NASA | Astrophysicist - Dr. Hakeem Oluseyi
3/5/2022
Hakeem Oluseyi is an American astrophysicist, cosmologist, inventor, educator, television personality, and public speaker. He was a Distinguished Professor of Aerospace, Physics, and Space Sciences at the Florida Institute of Technology from 2007 to 2019 and has held professorships at MIT, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Washington, and the University of Cape Town.
Dr. Oluseyi has also served as the Space Science Education Manager of the Science Mission...
Duration:00:59:39
From Tenure to Terror to the Top! - Dr. Boyce Watkins
3/17/2021
About Dr. Boyce Watkins, "The People's Scholar" Born to a 17-year-old single mother and placed in special education as a child, Dr. Boyce Watkins has risen above the obstacles to become a pioneer of scholarship and advocacy worldwide. In college, he was the Wall Street Journal Outstanding Graduating Senior in Finance with a triple major in Finance, Economics, and Business Management. He went on to earn a master’s degree in Mathematical Statistics and a Ph.D. in Finance at The Ohio State...
Duration:00:58:53