NOTE: This event has been postponed.
Join the Department of African American Studies for our ongoing series, In Dialogue, where we bring undergraduates, graduates, faculty, and community members together in conversations to building community and support our studies.
“The Architecture of Productivity” will be a two-part workshop on the Notion app fundamentals with Ayshea Banes and sustainable productivity practices with Dr. Andrene Wright-Johnson.
Dr. Andrene Wright-Johnson is an Assistant Professor of Black Politics in the African American Studies Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Wright-Johnson is also a faculty affiliate in the Political Science department, the University of Wisconsin Election Research Center and a Senior Research specialist at the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy (IRRPP) at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She defended her dissertation on September, 2022 from Northwestern University and served as a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at the Pennsylvania State University, specializing in urban politics and political behavior at the intersection of race, gender, and class. She primarily focuses on producing work that centers the voices of Black women and girls – perspectives that are often pushed to the margins of both race and gendered scholarship.
Ayshea Banes (she/her) is a doctoral student in the Physics department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She received her bachelors in physics with minors in mathematics and chemistry from Wichita State University. She became interested in physics and astronomy when she saw Jupiter for the first time with her first telescope at 7 years old! Though, as time continued on, she became more interested in physics education and how we can transform it. Her research now focuses on ways to center Blackness within the physics classroom and how physics can aid in Black liberation. Outside of academics, she really enjoys doing puzzles, pilates, reading, and petting her cats!