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Erik is a native of Chicago and an elected official in the Deep South. He created his podcast to express his unique take on politics, as well as encourage black excellence in leadership. https://www.biancabaldridge.com/events-1/2026/7/10/hear-me-now-summer-institute monthly 0.5 2026-03-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aa0a6e896e76f5912f5d0ef/5f91378d-0a37-45f6-8a19-103139040a6a/5.png Events - Hear Me Now! Summer Institute - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.biancabaldridge.com/events-1/2026/4/23/the-blessed-collective-co-lab monthly 0.5 2026-03-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aa0a6e896e76f5912f5d0ef/343124fb-256d-46dd-984f-261adea78a76/2.png Events - Black Liberation in Education, Schools and Society (BLESS) Co/Lab - Black Liberation in Education, Schools and Society (BLESS) Co/Lab The mission of the Co/Lab is to establish a collaborative network dedicated to identifying and dismantling the deeply ingrained system of institutional AntiBlackness. Guided by principles of community knowledge, consciousness-raising and coalition building, the team generates, shares and uses knowledge as a tool for action, aiming to reduce harm to Black students and advocate for liberatory practices and policies. https://www.biancabaldridge.com/events-1/2026/4/16/brown-university-providence monthly 0.5 2026-03-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aa0a6e896e76f5912f5d0ef/85d0b93b-f96f-4662-8580-013618f4c645/1.png Events - Brown University: Providence - Sponsored by the Annenberg Institute Join a lively conversation about Dr. Baldridge’s latest book and its relevance for Providence youth and youth workers. Denezia Fahie is the Executive Director of the Providence Student Union. Providence Student Union empowers students to become powerful advocates for their own education and well-being. PSU unites youth from across Providence to take the lead in reshaping their schools and communities right now. Dr. Derron Wallace is an Associate Professor of Africana Studies and Education Policy. An award-winning sociologist of race, ethnicity, and education, Dr. Wallace examines the relationship between social policies, political power, and young people, nationally and internationally. https://www.biancabaldridge.com/events-1/2026/3/17/boys-club-of-new-york-manhattan monthly 0.5 2026-03-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aa0a6e896e76f5912f5d0ef/23d1479b-98d7-47f2-91b2-13c71a73180f/4.png Events - Boys' Club of New York: Manhattan - fireside chat Invitation-only Fireside Chat with Dr. Baldridge about Laboring in the Shadows: Precarity and Promise in Black Youth Work https://www.biancabaldridge.com/events-1/2026/5/7/youthrex-ontario monthly 0.5 2026-03-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aa0a6e896e76f5912f5d0ef/b53946db-4332-4299-9f32-3ce61fc381cc/3.png Events - YouthREX: Ontario - Virtual Keynote Youth work and the nonprofit sector are filled with structural challenges that shape youth workers’ personal and professional lives. Despite these challenges, youth workers cultivate experiences and opportunities for young people to thrive. Considering the complexity and precarity of the youth work landscape, including the pressure the field is under to address societal and educational problems, and the quick decisions youth workers are forced to make daily – under what conditions does the process of conscious futuring and dreaming occur? This virtual keynote radically reclaims the space needed to contemplate the viability and sustainability of youth work as a process of futuring. https://www.biancabaldridge.com/events-1/2026/3/17/american-educational-research-association-aera-annual-meeting monthly 0.5 2026-03-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aa0a6e896e76f5912f5d0ef/97433c40-fdfb-4d9f-821a-a6f04b23d4ed/Screenshot+2026-03-17+at+12.39.46%E2%80%AFPM.png Events - American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting: Los Angeles - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.biancabaldridge.com/events-1/2026/3/27/author-conversation-with-dr-bianca-baldridge-amp-brandelyn-anderson monthly 0.5 2026-03-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aa0a6e896e76f5912f5d0ef/3f3525b4-8ad3-4baa-b70b-de1d419eefdf/In+Conversation+With+Brandelyn+Anderson.png Events - Sankofa Video Books and Café: Washington DC - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.biancabaldridge.com/events-1/2026/2/24/virtual-fireside-chat monthly 0.5 2026-02-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aa0a6e896e76f5912f5d0ef/b4ceb655-179c-492f-a3dc-e732e4c1d16e/Gradient+Seasonal+Sale+Banner+%281%29.png Events - 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Read Bio → https://www.biancabaldridge.com/new-cover-page daily 0.75 2021-08-31 https://www.biancabaldridge.com/test-cover-page daily 0.75 2018-11-23 https://www.biancabaldridge.com/reclaiming-community daily 0.75 2019-09-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aa0a6e896e76f5912f5d0ef/1537665662121-QKLH7ZV49KFU3LDT7U06/Book+Cover.jpg Reclaiming Community Approximately 2.4 million Black youth participate in after school programs, which offer a range of support, including academic tutoring, college preparation, political identity development, cultural and emotional support, and even a space to develop strategies and tools for organizing and activism. In Reclaiming Community, Bianca Baldridge tells the story of one such community-based program, Educational Excellence (EE), shining a light on, both, the invaluable role youth workers play in these spaces, and the precarious context in which such programs now exist. Drawing on rich ethnographic data, Baldridge persuasively argues that the story of EE is representative of a much larger and understudied phenomenon. With the spread of neoliberal ideology and its reliance on racism-marked by individualism, market competition, and privatization-these bastions of community support are losing the autonomy that has allowed them to embolden the minds of the youth they serve. Baldridge captures the stories of loss and resistance within this context of immense external political pressure, arguing powerfully for the damage caused when the same structural violence that Black youth experience in school, starts to occur in the places they go to escape it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aa0a6e896e76f5912f5d0ef/1569376859276-SRB9F44CGY6UMR5K4HBN/Baldridge+Morning+Blend+MKE.png Reclaiming Community https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aa0a6e896e76f5912f5d0ef/1569377375962-JDL96TF33GHSH6NG29BC/IMG_0436.JPG Reclaiming Community https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aa0a6e896e76f5912f5d0ef/1569377457953-41W4HAUJHOSQS2EGEHL6/IMG_1343.JPG Reclaiming Community https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aa0a6e896e76f5912f5d0ef/1569377500968-YRB1KE9HB2NHBUTCLDZS/IMG_1496.JPG Reclaiming Community https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aa0a6e896e76f5912f5d0ef/1569377520894-R96GLMEX0WIXYJ56BT5L/IMG_1493.JPG Reclaiming Community https://www.biancabaldridge.com/resume daily 0.75 2018-06-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d00f106b8f5b01c8e73f52/1491858366054-VN3632LUL8YNY0SH4RCQ/color-3.png Teaching https://www.biancabaldridge.com/old-about daily 0.75 2018-09-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aa0a6e896e76f5912f5d0ef/1537662731806-ANCHFNK3ZK0F3NR9X3YQ/bbaldridge.jpg Old About Page https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aa0a6e896e76f5912f5d0ef/1537662768973-B40AH6ZSIZMBOJ83FRA2/bbaldridge.jpg Old About Page https://www.biancabaldridge.com/oldteaching daily 0.75 2018-09-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aa0a6e896e76f5912f5d0ef/1537669127559-7MHM012ERTQP6M9BKLKX/Class.jpg Old Teaching Page - Courses Youth, Education, + Society This course explores the study of youth through theoretical, historical, social, and cultural perspectives with a particular focus on youth of color in marginalized contexts. This course interrogates the concept of “youth” as a socially constructed category and examine how “youth” have been positioned within educational, political, economic, and social contexts. Themes explored include: conceptions of youth as a social category, education and schooling, race, gender, sexuality, politics and activism, community-based learning, criminal justice, media, and popular culture. By drawing on a variety of historical and contemporary “texts” and current events students study the lived experiences of young people who are situated within diverse racial, cultural, gendered, and classed contexts. Throughout the course, students reflect on their own experiences as “youth,” their relationship to education and other social institutions – and how it informs their understanding of society, educational theory and practice. Students are asked to think critically about the implications of race/ethnicity, social class, gender, sexuality, power and privilege throughout all themes and topics of the course. Rethinking Afterschool Education: Community Engaged Learning After school community-based spaces are often regarded as positive and affirming spaces for youth. In policy circles, they are usually regarded as valuable to youth and communities with little exploration into their diversity, philosophy, framing of youth, or pedagogical practices. This course provides students with the opportunity to engage with and discuss historical, ideological, and contemporary issues within after school community-based programs at large and within the local context. Rethinking After School Education is a community-engaged learning course intended to provide students with a theoretical understanding of afterschool education, as well as an applied and practical approach to working with and being of service to community-based programs. While receiving training on working with youth, race and privilege, and educational and economic inequality, students engage with one organization in the local community. Students also engage with guest speakers, including directors and youth workers from after school programs in the local community and other cities throughout the country. Once at the partner site, students will perform the services most needed by the site. Education + Resistance in Community-based Spaces Drawing upon theoretical and empirical literature, students are asked to critically think about the ways political and social context shapes the construction and culture of these spaces. Students explore how educational policy and the confluence of power, race, class, and gender, shape community-based programs for youth. This course examines the ways these diverse out-of-school spaces inform the educational experiences, political identity development, and organizing and activist lives of minoritized and vulnerable youth. Topics include: grassroots organizing and activism, academic outcomes and access to higher education, full-service community-schools/school-community partnerships, socio-political development, funding and philanthropy, neoliberalism and education privatization, and after-school and out-of-school time education. Additionally, students examine the social and political context of community-based educational efforts in order to understand how they can be nurturing spaces of resistance for youth, as well as spaces of conflict and social reproduction. This course challenges students to think critically community-based spaces and their capacity for educational, political, and social change for youth and communities. Socio-Cultural Perspectives on Youth + Education This course is the graduate level version of Youth, Education + Society. Social Science Research Methods: Publishing Practicum This class provides instruction on the skill and technique required to effectively manage your time and organize and execute a writing project in a timely fashion. By the end of this class, students have a clear plan in place to complete a writing project to prepare for academic publication. The skills learned in this class will be useful for any subsequent writing project—large or small, single author or co-authored students take on. In this course, you will also develop a habit of daily writing. By the end of this course, students will completed semester writing goals, develop a habit of daily writing, and submit a manuscript for publication. https://www.biancabaldridge.com/registry daily 0.75 2021-08-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aa0a6e896e76f5912f5d0ef/1569376437711-B6NXHKY2JSU7G11KS1EA/MKE+Show.png Engaged Work - Media OpEds + Appearances "The Leslie Marshall Show" “It’s Not Just We Got Y’all” “Shaming Black Youth is Not the Way” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aa0a6e896e76f5912f5d0ef/1569371029219-82VMQ0TWUCR7CUCYJEBB/Bianca-57.jpg Engaged Work - Speaking Engagements Click here for my calendar of events https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aa0a6e896e76f5912f5d0ef/1630431024598-RQ0FRT39YD1IM31GGKZ9/12983806_10153660601074010_1092468818144002365_o-1.jpg Engaged Work - Consulting + Services Working with community-based leaders and your workers in the areas of racial equity and justice; disrupting white supremacy in community-based organizations; professional development in youth work practice is an important part of my work. Selected List of Previous Clients: Madison-area Out of School Time Network; Kalamazoo Youth Development Network; Wisconsin 4H Youth Development; Minnesota 4H Youth Development; Lussier Community Education Center; Camp Fire; Goodman Community Center; Harlem Health Promotion Center; Dane County Department of Human Services; Chicago Learning Exchange; Urban Initiatives https://www.biancabaldridge.com/research daily 0.75 2018-12-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aa0a6e896e76f5912f5d0ef/1537666160475-6JHHD0X94KEJCSCWZE4H/07-racial-justice.jpg Research https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aa0a6e896e76f5912f5d0ef/1537666798813-9SUQ1HWA28VA1DIB7H46/download-1.png Research https://www.biancabaldridge.com/about daily 0.75 2021-10-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aa0a6e896e76f5912f5d0ef/1537662731806-ANCHFNK3ZK0F3NR9X3YQ/bbaldridge.jpg About https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aa0a6e896e76f5912f5d0ef/1537662768973-B40AH6ZSIZMBOJ83FRA2/bbaldridge.jpg About https://www.biancabaldridge.com/teaching daily 0.75 2019-09-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aa0a6e896e76f5912f5d0ef/1569370831500-49C21V3K1F49TGHA4JS1/Bianca_6-1024x657.jpg Teaching https://www.biancabaldridge.com/contact daily 0.75 2018-12-15 https://www.biancabaldridge.com/youthwork daily 0.75 2025-03-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aa0a6e896e76f5912f5d0ef/1653891744119-M9DLTAZTE4FS1FYJQ94L/unsplash-image-faEfWCdOKIg.jpg Youth Work - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aa0a6e896e76f5912f5d0ef/ad3be887-8045-4e96-9ba5-d1cbd0406ae2/IMG_2108+2.jpg Youth Work - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aa0a6e896e76f5912f5d0ef/f70eb853-a26d-44a0-8c46-c638663bda65/Dr-Deepa-Sriya-Vasudevan-headshot.png Youth Work - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.biancabaldridge.com/team-1 daily 0.75 2022-05-30 https://www.biancabaldridge.com/contact-1 daily 0.75 2026-03-26