Tracey McPherson is a second-year student in the Department of Africology. Born and raised in the contrasting city of Pittsburgh on Pennsylvania’s western border, Tracey attended Slippery Rock University where she earned a bachelor’s degree in Education with a focus in Secondary English. Tracey has taught middle and high school students in both the Prince George’s County School District and the Pittsburgh Public School District for a total of eight years.

After seeing the racial disparities in education firsthand, Tracey now seeks to arm herself with the knowledge and skills necessary to make change happen and ignite reform within our current educational system. Upon acquiring her doctoral degree from Temple’s Africology department, the first PhD program of its kind, Tracey plans to ultimately open her own Afrocentric school, with an enhanced emphasis on health.

Currently, Tracey's academic pursuits focus on revolutionary pedagogy, reclamation of the African identity among African Americans and solutions to combat nutricide, particularly in urban communities.

Faculty Advisor: Dr. Molefi Kete Asanté