Black Educology Speaker Series: Dr. Jamila Lyiscott, The Cost of Code Switching and How We Get Free

Friday, October 9, 2026 at 6:00 PM until 7:30 PMPacific Daylight Time UTC -07:00

USF Lone Mountain, Handlery Room, LM 100
2820 Turk Boulevard
San Francisco, CA 94118
United States

Doors will open at 5:30 PM for a light pre-panel reception. The program will begin at 6:00 PM.

In this conversation, Dr. J, author of The Cost of Code-Switching And How We Get Free (drops 2027), and the Producers of The Black Educology Mixtape will discuss the relationship between Blackness and western education while centering Dr. J’s work on linguistic justice, youth-led social research, and the power of hip-hop pedagogy to address systemic issues. Together, Dr. J and BE will lead a session to define and disrupt institutional frameworks and plant seeds of possibilities.

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Black Educology Speaker Series: Dr. Jamila Lyiscott, The Cost of Code Switching and How We Get Free

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