Theron FordTheron Ford obtained her doctorate from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. She has decades of classroom experience having taught at every grade level from Head Start through university graduate students. Additionally, she has a background in special eucation. She acknowledges that the endless efforts African Americans and their allies from other races and ethnicities have used in an attempt to actualize the concept of social justice in American came into her consciousness when she was in middle school when she lived through the disparate behaviors of some teachers and administrators in her school. As a youth, she found herself in marches for equal rights and in protest of the war in Vietnam. Her research interests focus on issues of race, class and culture within the spheres of education and religion as well as education and women in sub-Saharan Africa. In 1998 her work in Malawi with a Non-Governmental Organization earned her an award for outstanding teacher. Read More Read Less