Office Hours: Career Pathways for PhDs is dedicated to helping people with doctorates explore careers from academia to industry!

Host/Show Creator: Dr. Jasmin M. Goodman
Co-Creator & Executive Producer: Dr. Maryann Kwakwa

Want to share your PhD story? Email hello@jasmingoodman.com

About Our Guest:
dr. monique inez liston is the Founder, Chief Strategist and Joyful Militant at
UBUNTU Research and Evaluation. UBUNTU Research and Evaluation was
founded by dr. monique liston as a space to hold her dissertation research
findings while protecting Black women’s intellectual thought, leadership
and vision. UBUNTU is a Bantu term that loosely translates into English, “I
am because we are.” UBUNTU was chosen because it is a word that
represents the core principle of UBUNTU as an organization while
connecting us as members of the globally displaced African diaspora.
Protecting the dignity of all Black people with Black women and femmes at
the lead is UBUNTU’s priority. UBUNTU was founded on January 1, 2017, Dr.
John Henrik Clarke’s 102nd birthday, intentionally chosen to memorialize
our intellectual genealogy within pan-African consciousness.

She is a Black woman born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She is the
daughter of Ursula, granddaughter of Gracie J. and great-granddaughter of
Inez. OKWUI ENWEZOR said "A collective has to be more than an ideal, and
more than communal craft; it has to be a truly social enterprise." UBUNTU
started because monique needed a place to build beloved community not
just income. She seeks teams. She loves collaboration. Building UBUNTU
meant making a Black Collective. Being raised by a conscious-raising Black
mother, educated at Howard University and loved by a family in blood and
spirit in Milwaukee -- a space birthed from monique naturally emanated
into a Black collective. UBUNTU is a space where teams dream, challenge
and build on shared values of transformation for liberation. Where one
thrives, we all thrive. Where one struggles, we all practice radical empathy.
The space is wrapped in joy and resistance. Previous spaces have not
fulfilled this purpose and while UBUNTU is not THE answer - it is the current
iteration of our collective journey towards liberation. UBUNTU provides the
space for emergent strategies to develop and flourish.

She is an experienced facilitator, evaluator and program designer with over
15 years of experience in the fields of leadership, education, and public
health. She is proud alum of Howard University with a BA in Sociology and
the University of Delaware with a Masters in Public Administration. Most
recently, UBUNTU was nominated as Best Place to Work for Social Justice
by Shepherd Express Magazine in 2020 and 2021 and was selected as a
winner for the Milwaukee Business Journal's Diversity in Business Awards in
2022.

Office Hours: Career Pathways for PhDs is dedicated to helping people with doctorates explore careers from academia to industry!

Host/Show Creator: Dr. Jasmin M. Goodman
Co-Creator & Executive Producer: Dr. Maryann Kwakwa

Want to share your PhD story? Email hello@jasmingoodman.com

About Our Guest:

Dr. Amber Hamilton earned her PhD in Sociology from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. During her doctoral studies, she held research internships at Microsoft and IBM before moving into UX Research after graduation. Dr. Hamilton now conducts qualitative UX research to support Pinterest's advertising capabilities.

Office Hours: Career Pathways for PhDs is dedicated to helping people with doctorates explore careers from academia to industry!

Host/Show Creator: Dr. Jasmin M. Goodman
Co-Creator & Executive Producer: Dr. Maryann Kwakwa

Want to share your PhD story? Email hello@jasmingoodman.com

About Our Guest:

Dr. Rolundus Rice tells the story of how he dropped out of high school in Atlanta and his then-girlfriend found out and promptly dropped him. The motivation to get her back changed the trajectory of his life. He subsequently earned a GED before earning a Ph.D. from Auburn University in the discipline of History. It is believed that he was the first GED recipient to earn the terminal degree from Auburn since the school was founded in 1856.

Dr. Rice, who former students referred to as “The Dapper Dean,” returned to Tuskegee last year as Chief Operating Officer. He taught world history here while completing his doctoral studies at Auburn University. With more than 20 years of experience in higher education, he joined TU after having served as Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Rust College in Holly Springs, Mississippi. Prior to the vice presidency, Rice has served as history professor, dean of an undergraduate division and a graduate school. Dr. Rice is an expert on 20th century history, specifically, the Modern Civil Rights Movement. His latest book, Hosea Williams: A Lifetime of Defiance and Protest, was recently published by the University of South Carolina Press.

Dr. Rice is married to the former Dana Lee. They have four children who aspire to be future Golden Tigers: Madison, Marley, Rolundus III, and Remington.