Aminah Wallace

My name is Aminah Wallace. I am currently an English teacher and Academic Advisor at the French American International School, an independent/private  K-12, in San Francisco, CA. I am also advanced to candidacy and completing my dissertation for my PhD in Latin American, Caribbean and U.S. Latino Studies at the University at Albany, SUNY in Albany, NY. My dissertation is titled: With Dreams of Equality Came Dialogues and Resistance: West Indian Migrants, African Americans and the Evolutions of Vindicationism and Black Internationalism in the Discourses of Black Print Media from World War I Through Garveyism, January 1914- February 14, 1925. I hold a Masters in Africana Studies from the University at Albany, SUNY and a Masters and Bachelors in Sociology from California State University, East Bay.  I was born in Richmond, CA where I spent much of my childhood and young adult life. I have been a teacher in higher education and k-12 since 2010, having taught in California at John Henry High School in Richmond, CA (2020-2021), in New York at Binghamton University (2010-2014), SUNY Oneonta (2014-2015) and the University at Albany, SUNY (2015-2016) and in South Carolina at Midlands Technical College, among other schools (2011-2014). I live in Antioch, CA and am newly married with three step daughters aged 18, 15 and 7. I enjoy walking, swimming, reading, writing, listening to music and watching funny TV shows and movies.
Supervisors: Alejandra Bronfman