is the Clinical Experiences and Internship Manager at National Louis University. She is also a Career Transition Coach and Professional Networking Strategist at She Leads Beautifully, where she teaches mid-career women how to tap into their networks to access their next dream jobs. Dr. Uzoma is a contributing author of No Ways Tired: The Journey for Professionals of Color in Student Affairs. She has graced local and national stages, leading career and leadership development talks. Dr. Uzoma was the 2019 recipient of the Up and Coming Woman in Education Award for the Influential Women of Northwest Indiana Awards. Dr. Uzoma holds a B.A. and M.S.Ed. from Indiana University Bloomington and a Ph.D. in Higher Education Leadership from Indiana State University.

is a professor of African American Studies and French at Yale University. She is the author of A Regarded Self: Caribbean Womanhood and the Ethics of Disorderly Being and of Haiti Unbound: A Spiralist Challenge to the Postcolonial Canon, as well as of numerous essays, articles, and chapters concerning race, gender, and representation in the francophone world. Her current project is biography of Haitian former communist militant, novelist, and erotic poet René Depestre. She is the prize-winning translator of several works of Haitian prose fiction and francophone non-fiction, the founding co-editor of archipelagos | a journal of Caribbean digital praxis, and the founding co-director of the digital humanities project In the Same Boats: Toward an Afro-Atlantic Intellectual Cartography. She is also a regular contributor to the New York Times Book Review and the co-host of the podcast WRITING HOME | American Voices from the Caribbean. Her scholarly, translation, and digital humanities work has been supported by fellowships at the New York Public Library Cullman Center, the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination in Paris, the PEN/Heim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Mellon Foundation.