Darnell Leatherwood
Darnell Leatherwood (born January 18, 1989) is an American educator, mentor, researcher, social entrepreneur, and businessman.
Early Life and Education[edit]
Leatherwood was born on January 18, 1989 at Touchette Regional Hospital.[1] in Centreville, Illinois to Patricia Ann Leatherwood and Darnell Leatherwood, Sr. He is one of two children. He grew up in East St. Louis, Illinois[2] and attended Hawthorne Elementary School, Lansdowne Middle School, and East Saint Louis Senior High School[3]. Leatherwood was valedictorian of his graduating class in middle school, president of his freshman and senior classes in high school, and graduated top 5 in his high school class. He also held multiple leadership positions at his childhood church Ira Grove Freewill Baptist Church. He served as a youth Sunday school teacher, president of the junior usher board, president of the junior choir, and a junior deacon. After graduating high school, Leatherwood attended the College of Business at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign[4] where he double majored in Management with a focus in Entrepreneurship and Business Process Management. During his time at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign he served as advisor to the Florida Avenue Residence Hall's[5] Black Student Union EWEZO[6], founder of Man2Man (a community service and mentoring organization), founding advisor for Praise and Anointed Worship in the Word (PAWW; campus christian ministry), vice president of the University Black Chorus[7], and a resident advisor in both the Florida Avenue Residence Hall and Sherman Upper-Division Graduate Hall[8].
After completing his undergraduate program in business, Leatherwood attended the University of Chicago[9] and completed a Master of Arts degree in the Social Sciences[10]. He is currently pursuing a doctorate at the University of Chicago in the School of Social Service Administration[11]. Leatherwood or his work has been featured in Rolling Out[12], BlackDoctors.org[13], The News Gazette[14], The Daily Illini[15] (2)[16], West of the Ryan Current Magazine[17], and the podcast Separate and Unequal[18]
Career[edit]
Teaching[edit]
Leatherwood is an educator in the city of Chicago and has taught at the elementary, secondary, and post-secondary school levels. He served as the Civic Engagement Coordinator and an assistant teacher at the Montessori School of Englewood [19]. He voluntarily left this position after the Montessori School of Englewood Board of Directors failed to resolve a case of racial discrimination. Leatherwood then went on to teach Algebra 1 at the Urban Prep Academies-Englewood Campus[20]. He has also served as a teaching assistant for graduate students at the University of Chicago.
Mentoring[edit]
Leatherwood has mentored hundreds of students across multiple communities, organizations, and institutions. He mentored elementary school students at the Montessori School of Englewood and Fiske Elementary School[21], preteens at the Champaign Juvenile Detention Center [22], adolescents at the Champaign Don Moyer Boys and Girls Club[23], high school students at the Urban Prep Academies-Englewood Campus, undergraduate students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign through various organizations (Man2Man, EWEZO, PAWW, see above for reference), and young adults in the Chicago community transitioning to adulthood. His mentees currently range from youth entering 1st grade to young adults pursuing graduate degrees.
Scholarship[edit]
Leatherwood's research interests include urban education, adolescent development, and social inequality/policy. He is a quantitatively trained applied interdisciplinary social scientist and is particularly interested in examining factors associated with academic achievement among vulnerable student populations in and/or from underserved communities. Leatherwood is a founding member of the Black Education Research Group (BERG) which is a research initiative dedicated to eliminating the "achievement gap" and exploring/expanding the national discourse concerning advocacy in Black education. BERG's membership is made up of scholars from multiple universities across Illinois.
Leatherwood is a Department of Education Institute of Education Sciences Fellow and Illinois Board of Higher Education Diversifying Faculty in Illinois Fellow. He chaired and coordinated the University of Chicago Committee on Education's Workshop on Education committee and Workshop on Education[24] (respectively) from 2016 to 2018. He has authored or co-authored peer reviewed publications in such academic journals as Social Service Review[25] and the International Journal of Higher Education[26].
Business[edit]
Leatherwood has served as a founder, co-founder, and/or founding board member for multiple enterprises. Leatherwood is co-founder of Leatherwood & Lyles, L.L.C. which was founded in 2016 and is a company dedicated to developing undeserved communities through home-ownership and gainful employment. In 2016 he also served as a founding board member of Quest Christian Academy[27], a boarding school that will service and educate students exposed to the juvenile justice system and/or who are growing up in adverse circumstances. In 2017 he served as a founding board member of For Posterity, Inc.[28] which is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to reducing youth violence and providing mentoring/community service in the city of Chicago and abroad. And in that same year he started the Black Boys Shine[29] campaign which is purposed to strengthen/control the Black male narrative and image nationally and internationally.
Awards and Honors[edit]
- 2017 Diversifying Higher Education Faculty in Illinois Program Fellowship, Illinois Board of Higher Education[30]
- 2015 Institute of Education Sciences Fellowship, Department of Education[31]
- 2014 The Earl S. and Esther Johnson Excellent Thesis Prize-Nominated, The Master of Arts Program in the Social Sciences at the University of Chicago
- 2012 Academic Merit Award, The Master of Arts Program in the Social Sciences at the University of Chicago
- 2010 Original Research Award: SAEOPP National Research Symposium, McNair Scholars Program[32]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Touchette Regional Hospital". www.touchette.org. Retrieved 2018-08-21.
- ↑ "East St. Louis, Illinois", Wikipedia, 2018-08-13, retrieved 2018-08-21
- ↑ "East St. Louis Sr. High School / Homepage". www.estl189.com. Retrieved 2018-08-21.
- ↑ "Gies College of Business - University of Illinois". Gies College of Business. Retrieved 2018-08-21.
- ↑ Housing, University. "Florida Avenue". University Housing. Retrieved 2018-08-21.
- ↑ Housing, University. "FAR Hall Groups". University Housing. Retrieved 2018-08-22.
- ↑ "Black Chorus | Music at Illinois". music.illinois.edu. Retrieved 2018-08-22.
- ↑ Housing, University. "Sherman". University Housing. Retrieved 2018-08-21.
- ↑ "The University of Chicago". The University of Chicago. Retrieved 2018-08-21.
- ↑ "MAPSS | The University of Chicago". mapss.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2018-08-21.
- ↑ "University of Chicago - SSA". ssa.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2018-08-21.
- ↑ "Diary of a mad Black teacher who taught in America's public school system". rollingout.com. Retrieved 2018-08-25.
- ↑ "The Impact of Trauma on a Black Boy's Genius". BlackDoctor. 2018-06-20. Retrieved 2018-08-25.
- ↑ "Central Illinois Daily Life February 2012". Retrieved 2018-08-25.
- ↑ "McNair Scholars Program still going strong in 20th year | The Daily Illini". dailyillini.com. 2010-07-19. Retrieved 2018-08-25.
- ↑ Silverberg, Melissa (2008-09-25). "UI professor creates fund for lymphoma researchers | The Daily Illini". dailyillini.com. Retrieved 2018-08-25.
- ↑ Flipsnack. "West of the Ryan Current Magazine -December 2016". Flipsnack. Retrieved 2018-08-25.
- ↑ FM, Player, Episode 1: Roundtable Discussion, retrieved 2018-08-25
- ↑ "The Montessori School of Englewood". The Montessori School of Englewood. Retrieved 2018-08-21.
- ↑ "Englewood Campus | Urban Prep Academies". www.urbanprep.org. Retrieved 2018-08-21.
- ↑ "Fiske Elementary School". fiskeelementary.org. Retrieved 2018-08-21.
- ↑ 61802, Champaign County Illinois, Urbana, IL. "Probation & Court Services and Juvenile Detention Center | Champaign County Illinois". www.co.champaign.il.us. Retrieved 2018-08-21.
- ↑ "Don Moyer Boys & Girls Club : Home". dmbgc.org. Retrieved 2018-08-21.
- ↑ "The Chicago Education Workshop Lecture Series | Committee on Education | The University of Chicago". coe.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2018-08-21.
- ↑ Leatherwood, Darnell; Payne, Charles (September 2016). "Putting No Child Left Behind behind Us: Rethinking Education and Inequality". Social Service Review. 90 (3): 562–570. doi:10.1086/688713. ISSN 0037-7961.
- ↑ Leatherwood, Darnell (2017-11-07). "Parenting Influences and School Engagement among African American Male Youth: A Personal Narrative". International Journal of Higher Education. 6 (2): 225. doi:10.5430/ijhe.v6n2p225. ISSN 1927-6052.
- ↑ "QUEST Christian Academy". questchristianacademy.org. Retrieved 2018-08-21.
- ↑ "For Posterity, Inc". For Posterity, Inc. Retrieved 2018-08-21.
- ↑ "BLACK BOYS SHINE". YouTube. Retrieved 2018-08-21.
- ↑ "Grants DFI Faculty". www.ibhe.org. Retrieved 2018-08-21.
- ↑ "2015 Fellows | Committee on Education | The University of Chicago". coe.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2018-08-21.
- ↑ "TRIO McNair Scholars Program " OMSA " Illinois". www.omsa.illinois.edu. Retrieved 2018-08-21.
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