CaribbeanScholarTings Kat J. Stephens

Welcome back to another episode of CaribbeanScholarTings, the podcast! On this episode, we welcome Nathara Bailey, MA. Nathara has earned a BA from Sarah Lawrence College, a M.A. of Education in Clinical Psychology from Teachers College, Columbia University. Next up, she'll be starting a Doctor of Clinical Psychology program where she'll earn her PsyD. Before then, we gather to discuss all things mental wellness, self-reflection, looking inward, and the 'call' to do Caribbean centrist work and scholarship for our community! 

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Follow us on this academic journey, listen to your host, Kat J. Stephens, share her Book of the Month, the wonderful read, Decolonizing Qualitative Approaches For and By the Caribbean, Edited by Dr. Saran Stewart PhD of the University of West Indies, Mona. Also, the episode takes us down a hilarious path of particular dotishness when Caribbeanness and Blackness are brought into question. Sit back, relax, and get your Milo ready. 

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-KS 

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