UNtenurED

About UNtenurED

🎙️ Our UNtenurED Pod is the unapologetic mic drop Black educators and leaders have been waiting for — a platform where lesson plans meet lived experience, and where the stories that don’t make it into faculty meetings finally get their shine. Hosted with heart, humor, and a whole lot of honesty, UNtenurED creates space for educators to speak their truth, build community, and spark change — because speaking your truth can never “go left,” when it’s your RIGHT! Each episode moves through three signature microsegments — “Deuces,” “Oh Hell No,” and “They Say, You Say” — allowing guests to toggle between moments of reflection and moments of levity, all in the spirit of keeping it UNfiltered, REAL, and deeply resonant with the rhythm of Black educator brilliance. It’s education. It’s liberation. It’s conversation that refuses to stay in the margins.

Publisher

Yaa Yaa Whaley-Williams

Category

business · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

13 Nov 2025

Latest episode

31 Mar 2026

Latest episodes

21 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   31 Mar 2026

   UNmaksED

   Episode 20 ~ Dr. Michelle Chanda Singh aka The Disengagement Doctor ! We're closing out with a BOLD BLACK BANG! Our Season 2 finale is called UNmaskED—and we came with blueprint energy, brilliance, and a little beautiful disruption. 🎙️✨ Inspired by the spirit of Paul Laurence Dunbar’s iconic “We Wear the Mask,” this episode pulled the mask off systems, stories, and silence. The Disengagement Doctor didn’t just join the conversation—she diagnosed it, named it, and helped us see what it takes to re-engage hearts systems tried to quiet. From AI in classrooms to Black joy in leadership spaces, Insecure or Girlfriends SEL for teachers and more, spades or UNO this wasn’t content—it was cultural correction. And tune in for some “firsts” in this Season 2 closing guest discussion—moments we’ve never had on the mic before, and shifts we didn’t just talk about, but lived in real time. Because when community, critique, and care sit together… disengagement doesn’t stand a chance. 🖤

2. 

   11 Mar 2026

   UNderestimatED

   Episode 19 ~ Camille Joy aka THE Audacious Autism Advocate ! In this neuro-affirming conversation, we sit with Camille Joy, author of Moments of Joy: 90 Days of Encouragement for Parents of Children with Special Needs to explore Black AUTISTIC joy to center inclusivity. Sometimes the world underestimates people… until they speak. In this episode we honor National Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month and Women’s History Month—two reminders that the voices history tried to overlook are often the ones carrying the most wisdom. This conversation is about power, advocacy, motherhood, identity, and the beauty of seeing brilliance where systems once saw limits. Because being underestimated? Sometimes that’s just the prelude to changing the narrative. This episode is an invitation to level up your autism acceptance AND advocacy. Come for the insight. Stay for the affirmation. Leave remembering that Black joy is strategy, language is liberation, and our stories are sacred.

3. 

   20 Feb 2026

   UNleashED

   Episode 18 ~ Kleaver Cruz aka THE Dominican Diaspora Dreamer ! In this powerful and soul-centered conversation, we sit with Kleaver Cruz, author of The Black Joy Project, to explore Black joy not as a trend—but as a tool of resistance, a strategy for survival, and a declaration of power. Kleaver, a community organizer and founder of The Black Joy Project, has dedicated his work to uplifting stories that remind us that Black life is not solely defined by struggle—but by brilliance, creativity, tenderness, and triumph. Through their storytelling and organizing, they reframe joy as political, intentional, and deeply rooted in collective memory. Together, we unpack the power of language—how the words we use shape narratives, movements, and even our self-concept. We reflect on the hidden figures of the Black movement—the everyday organizers, cultural architects, artists, and elders whose names may not make headlines but whose impact reshapes generations. We talk Benito Bowl, tostones or maduro, their favorite word, whether they'd go a lifetime without travel or a lifetime without books....and MORE! This episode is an invitation to reimagine resistance. To understand that joy is not a distraction from the work—it is the work. That naming ourselves is power. That remembering our hidden figures is legacy. And that choosing joy, especially in the face of erasure, is one of the most radical acts available to us. Come for the insight. Stay for the affirmation. Leave remembering that Black joy is strategy, language is liberation, and our stories are sacred.

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