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The second Faculty Pub Night of the 2025-26 season features Joaquín Noguera, assistant professor of educational leadership (School of Education). He will discuss his recent co-authored publication, "The Promethean Promise: Understanding and Responding to the Educational Aspirations of Black People in the US, Seventy Years After Brown."

About Faculty Pub Night

Students, staff, faculty, alumni, and members of the public are all invited to the 2025-26 series of Faculty Pub Night at the William H. Hannon Library. Eight LMU professors are selected annually to discuss their latest publication or project in a comfortable setting and format that welcomes diverse perspectives for an inclusive conversation aimed to educate the entire community. All Faculty Pub Nights are free and open to the public.

About the Author's Work

In this paper, we use Prometheus and his perpetual punishment to draw attention to the historic role Black people have played in U.S. education and contemplate the state of education for Black people 70 years after the Brown decision. We note the parallels between the period of reconstruction to the current period and use a case study of a school in Oakland, California to draw attention to a community-based response to the unfulfilled promise of the historic Brown decision. Our hope is that the case study can be used to undertake similar initiatives.

About the Author

Joaquín Noguera is an assistant professor of educational leadership at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles where he teaches in the leadership for social justice doctoral program, as well as in the masters and administrative credentialing programs. Noguera received his Ph.D. in social science and comparative education with a specialization in race, ethnic, and cultural studies from UCLA. He is a former social worker, K-12 teacher, school leader, and director of the International Youth Leadership Institute (IYLI) in New York City. For the past fifteen years, he has worked as a consultant, coach, and advisor to school and district leaders, teachers, and with learning organizations throughout the country. Noguera's research and scholarship amplify anti/decolonizing, critical race, Indigenous, Black radical, and ethnic studies perspectives and draws from the knowledges produced by these traditions when responding to and remedying our individual and collective challenges. His work centers well-being and holistic engagement while prioritizing relational awareness and accountability to forward sustainable transformation and healing. His research is situated at the intersections of race, culture, power, education, and social justice and engages three broad areas: the limits and possibilities for transformation and healing of education and schooling, particularly for Black, Latinx, and Indigenous communities and in low-income urban contexts; systems change that advances racial equity in organizational contexts; and critical analysis of the impact of social, cultural, and political patterns on the development and experiences of individuals, communities, and schools.

About the William H. Hannon Library

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