Kishi Animashaun Ducre
Scholarly Writer, Lecturer, & Consultant
About Kishi
Educator, Author, and Higher Education Leader
Kishi Animashaun Ducre is an experienced professor with a successful history in higher education and nonprofit advocacy organizations. Her interdisciplinary PhD studies have been instrumental in teaching success across courses related to African American Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, Sociology, and Black Geography.
A Place We Call Home: Gender, Race, and Justice in Syracuse (Syracuse Studies on Peace and Conflict Resolution)
A Place We Call Home chronicles this photography project and bears witness not only to the environmental injustice experienced by these women but also to the ways in which they maintain dignity and restore order in a community where they have traditionally had little control.
Mission and Values
Environmental Justice
Black Feminism
Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion in Higher Education
“Justice Geographies: Weaving Stories of Home, Power, and Place”
Action and Impact
Consulting
With a decade of leadership in higher education and an MPA in nonprofit management, Kishi has excelled as a department chair, Center director, and Associate Dean. She has overseen million-dollar budgets, coordinated strategic planning at the department and college level, conducted searches for faculty, staff, and postdoctoral researchers, led workshops on accessibility, inclusive hiring and inclusive graduate admission process, and reducing bias in promotion and tenure reviews and led efforts to boost enrollments and curriculum development. She helped established the College’s first Diversity Council.
Teaching
Award-winning teacher with over 16 years of experience in college instruction across online, hybrid, and face-to-face instructional formats within different institutional contexts from a private university, state university, public community colleges, to a multi-campus branch university in the Caribbean.
Scholar
A nationally recognized scholar in environmental justice, Kishi integrates Black feminism, geography, and community-based research. She has secured nearly $2 million in family foundation grants, consistently published at least one sole-authored article per year for 13 years, and curated photography exhibitions showcasing her photovoice research in the U.S. and Caribbean.
Addressing Environmental and Food Justice toward Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline: Poisoning and Imprisoning Youth
This cutting-edge collection of essays presents to the reader leading voices within food justice, environmental justice, and school to prison pipeline movements. While many schools, community organizers, professors, politicians, unions, teachers, parents, youth, social workers, and youth advocates are focusing on curriculum, discipline policies, policing practices, incarceration demographics, and diversity of staff, the authors of this book argue that even if all those issues are addressed, healthy food and living environment are fundamental to the emancipation of youth.
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