Shameeka Wilson

Shameeka "Smeek" Wilson is a doctoral student in the Race, Inequality, and Language (RILE) Program at the Graduate School of Education (GSE). She received her B.S. in Professions in Deafness: K-12 Deaf and hard of hearing Teacher Licensure and an M.Ed in Teacher Education – Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Additionally, she holds teaching certifications in deaf education, special education, and TESOL and taught in K-12 contexts in the South. Her research explores Black teacher recruitment. She is interested in the workplace discipline practices experienced by Black women from their administrators in Southern K-12 contexts. Shameeka's research is supported by the Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education (EDGE) Fellowship and McCoy Center for Ethics in Society Graduate Fellowship.