2022-2023 CARL Research Fellows Announced
In September, the inaugural class of research fellows joined the Campus Abolition Research Lab and includes three scholars: Brenda Anderson Wadley, Dr. DeMarcus Jenkins, and Dr. Sy Stokes.
About the Fellows
Brenda Anderson Wadley is a visiting doctoral fellow at the Campus Abolition Research Center and a doctoral candidate in the Center for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Arizona. Brenda’s dissertation is focused on racial inequities in higher education policing and student organized resistance for police-free campuses.
Dr. DeMarcus Jenkins is an inaugural Visiting Faculty Fellow at the Campus Abolition Research Lab. Dr. Jenkins is an activist and urban scholar whose work considers the intersections of race, space, and policy. His research focuses on the influence of spatial, social, and political factors that foster and exacerbate inequalities for Black populations, as well as the approaches that school leaders take to disrupt and transform these dynamics.
Dr. Sy Stokes is an inaugural Executive Research Fellow at the Campus Abolition Research Lab. Dr. Stokes currently serves as Vice President of Research at Coqual where he directs the qualitative research team in identifying solutions for advancing equity in the workplace. Prior to Coqual, Sy was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow for the National Center for Institutional Diversity and Lecturer for the School of Education at the University of Michigan.
