The Ousley Scholar In Residence honors the legacy of Grace Ousley, the first black woman to graduate from Beloit College, and is a junior scholar/activist/organizer/intellectual who is committed to the theory and practice of social justice. They should embody the “academic hustler” who fights for “social justice” in all aspects of their work.

Support for the residency comes from the Weissberg Program in Human Rights and Social Justice and the Office of Student Success. Equity, & Community.

Residents

Mariah Parker

2022

Linguist, Athens-Clarke County (Georgia) Commissioner, and community organizer.

Denea Joseph

2021

National immigrant rights activist and undocumented Black DACA recipient who advocates for the rights of the most marginalized.

Elizabeth Yeampierre

2019

Nationally recognized Puerto Rican attorney and environmental justice leader

Tabias Olajuawon Wilson

2018

Author, consultant, speaker, scholar-creator, and Ph.D. student, who was selected as one of BlogHERs 2017 Voices of The Year.

Dr. Moya Bailey

2017

Inaugural Ousley Scholar and an assistant professor in the department of Cultures, Societies, and Global Studies and the program in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Northeastern University.