This episode explores a conversation with Dr. Kia Darling-Hammond on the importance of centering conversations and practices that support people with thriving and flourishing, especially in light of structural inequality. She draws from her research with LGBTQIA youth of Color to think through a robust and unique framework on thriving.

Kia Darling-Hammond, PhD, is the former associate director of educational programs at Stanford University’s Office of the Vice Provost for Graduate Education. She has more than twenty years’ experience as an administrator, researcher, teacher, consultant, and mentor in education and education-adjacent spaces. Kia’s scholarship explores the circumstances and beliefs that make thriving possible for Black LGBTQ+ and same-gender-loving people.