About

DR. LASANA D. KAZEMBE is an Emmy Award-winning poet, educator, and critical Black scholar whose work examines culture, race, history, the arts, and the social context of education. His research, teaching, activism, and creative scholarship comprise a philopraxis that explores the rich and sentient ‘lost-found’ sacred epistemologies (i.e., history, expressive forms, imaginaries, folklore, futurities) of Africana peoples and situates them as sites of memory, critical pedagogy, cultural production, and social action. Dr. Kazembe is an Associate Professor in the IU Indianapolis School of Education and also serves as Associate Department Chair and Coordinator of the Elementary Education Program. In addition, he is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the IU Indianapolis Africana Studies Program and serves on the Executive Advisory Committee for the IU Indy Center for Africana Studies and Culture. Earlier this year, he was invited to serve as a Research Fellow with the IU Indianapolis Arts & Humanities Institute.