Dr. Wilson Kwamogi Okello (he/him) is an accomplished early-career transdisciplinary artist and scholar who draws on Black critical theories to advance research on knowledge production and human development. Most immediately, he is concerned with how Black critical approaches make visible the epistemic foundations that structure what it means to be human and imagining otherwise possibilities for Black being therein. He is also concerned with how theories of Blackness might reconfigure understandings of racialized stress and trauma, qualitative inquiry, critical masculinities, and curriculum and pedagogy to create conditions of possibility in the education context and society.

Dr. Okello is an assistant professor of higher education at Penn State University, where he is a research associate at the Center for the Study of Higher Education (CSHE) and director of the Black Study in Education Lab at CSHE—a research and praxis hub concerned with exploring the potentialities of Blackness in educational research, practice, and policy.