Velicia Hawkins-Moore

Velicia Hawkins-Moore studies the Global Knowledge Economy and the role of HBCUs in African Diasporic academic initiatives. She attended an International Branch Campus at the University of Maryland in Bad Kreuznach, Germany. She was selected to participate in a Ford Foundation funded, Social Demography Seminar in Xi’an, China in 2008. She taught through an NGO in a rural village (Marfokrom) in Ghana, West Africa in 2008. She taught as a part of the comprehensive education reform in Abu Dhabi from 2013-16. She became a member of Zeta Phi Beta in the United Arab Emirates in 2015. She began working with the Youth auxiliaries in Lambda Zeta in 2017. Velicia has presented her research at: TX-A&M Pathways-2008, International Center for Innovation in Education-Prairie View A&M-2019, Year of Return Conference-Ghana, West Africa-2019, UNLV-2020, Columbia University-2020, The Qualitative Report-Nova Southeastern University-2021. Velicia is a third year PhD student (Educational Leadership) at Prairieview A&M University (an HBCU). She currently serves as the Lead Reviewer for AERA: GSC-Division A. Velicia has published a commentary in the Spring 2021 Issue (Volume 13, Issue 1) of NEOS entitled “In the Pursuit of Racial Justice in Child & Youth Studies.”

Publications

African American Millennial Leaders: The Impacts of Panther Parenting and Ubuntu Paradigm
African American Millennial Leaders: The Impacts of Panther Parenting and Ubuntu Paradigm
Velicia Hawkins-Moore, Dahleah Moore. © 2023. 33 pages.
African diasporic millennial leaders are uniquely situated to embark on critical leadership roles at the end of a millennia, in the middle of dual pandemics (race and COVID 19)...
Ubuntu Epistemology, Sankofa Scale, Africana Womanism, and African American Male Theory in Leadership: African American Mentoring – Transform and Restore
Ubuntu Epistemology, Sankofa Scale, Africana Womanism, and African American Male Theory in Leadership: African American Mentoring – Transform and Restore
Velicia Hawkins-Moore. © 2022. 23 pages.
This chapter situates Ubuntu epistemology, Sankofa scale, Africana womanism, and African American male theory within an African American leadership and mentoring frame. This...