I’ve been keeping a low profile these days but yall catch me at #AERA2026 and SRA 2026. No AERA presentations this year but I’m getting an award on my anniversary of my dissertation defense ✨ blogs.illinois.edu/view/1526/16...

📣 📣 Webinar 📣 📣 Translating Research into practice: Tools for Emerging & Early Career Scholars Join us are partnering with the Practice Committee for a webinar on translational research and practice briefs. Please register at tinyurl.com/ECEPWebinarA... #ECEPWebinar #appliedEdpsych #ECEPWebinar

I understand it’s necessary but writing my AI section of my syllabus is soul-sucking. But this is where we are.

Excited to share the latest (and my first, as Editor!) issue of APA Division 15’s Newsletter for Educational Psychologists! @aeradivcgrad.bsky.social @aera-motsig.bsky.social #apadiv15

An R&R, new legal pads, and a bowl of grits (team salt &butter). I’m sealing my joy wherever I can find it.

If I could offer students one bit of…advice: be brutally traditional about what is printed on your degree. If you are first-gen or in any way non traditional, this goes double. Let rich kids get degrees in AI. You get something called “English”.

We are excited to receive manuscripts for the Science Education Journal’s special theme on Critical Feminist Science Education starting November 1!! Have questions? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Just wolfed down a burger and Dr Pepper because I too, haven’t eaten all day. My hyper focus is a blessing & curse. 🥲

✨ New Publication Alert ✨ I’m very open about being a first-generation college graduate and I get asked a lot of my path to and through my Ph.D. This Autoethnography highlights pivotal experiences that led me from chemistry undergraduate to educational psychologist. psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...

LinkedIn feels too curated and influencer-ish. I post every and now then and immediately leave. Something about LinkedIn feels too forced.

🚨New publication in Holistic Education Review “We Must Build Spaces That Love Us: Fostering Healing Through a Critical Quantitative Collective” her.journals.publicknowledgeproject.org/index.php/he... #highereducation #publication #methodology #healing #critquant #quantcrit

✨ Black Women in Educational Psychology Panel at #APA2025 ✨ A Space of Belonging: Connecting Black Women Scholars in Educational Psychology featuring @drbrookeedu.bsky.social @christymbyrd.bsky.social @martiniquesealy.bsky.social @drd-g.bsky.social @heytpayne.bsky.social and Dionne Cross Francis 💫

I gotta find a new hair stylist and I hate that for me. You know how hard it is to find a loctician who can do microlocs and won’t send a “hey boo” text or have an aggressive,brightly colored website with unnecessary rules? I might have to become a DIY girlie 😭

Black woman in Trader Joe’s: I love your locs queen. Me: I literally smiled the rest of the day

It’s been real. Time for my chamomile tea and magnesium lotion #BETAwards

WE DON'T WANNA SEE NO MORE OF Y'ALL'S EXCLUSIVE CLIPS. PLEASE GOD. DELIVER US. #BetAwards

We not done yet lol

Is that T from The Parkers ?! #BETAwards

You wrote a song and BABYFACE sings it? You goated five-ever

Kevin body rolling and Kerry speaking, the commentary from Tichina and Tisha, and the zoom in on Bobby Jones gospel is so Black 🤣 I’m actually enjoying Kevin #BETAwards

grant me the job security of mc lyte's vocals

The Kirk joke was hilarious Enjoying these performances so far. Tyler dancing is me at home They really moving this program along #BETAwards

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This is the energy we all need to have, I echo @drtrmorton.bsky.social that we need boots on the ground! I’ll spare my musings but I believe boots on the ground has multiple meanings.

Excited to share the next session in the APA Division 15 Public Scholarship Series with you. I will be moderating this timely conversation hosted by the Div 15 Early Career Educational Psychologists (ECEP) Committee.

Outstanding Student Medallion, doctoral Destiny Williams-Dobosz @epsyatillinois.bsky.social More: bit.ly/44BDIN7

Incredibly honored to be this year's Doctoral degree Outstanding Student Medal recipient 💙🧡✨ “It is essential for me to embody the understanding that people of all backgrounds and identities are capable and belong in higher education.” Read more at the link education.illinois.edu/about/news-e...

Spending my day printing and mailing graduation photos and announcements to my elders. They requested specific sizes for their scrapbooks and photo walls. I’m tired but imma do it for them 😆

Random advice that no one asked for: Graduate students, if you can, take a writing class. A class dedicated to the craft of writing. This was a game changer for me during my final year.

I’ve attended a lot of defenses this Spring and yall are scholars for real. I don’t have words to express the depth and brilliance of the scholars presenting these dissertations. 🥹

THE SOS BAND IS BACK ON STREAMING!!!!!!!!! THANK YOU GOD! THANK YOU GRANNY!!!!

For all the early risers come check out this 8 am session! I’ll share some of dissertation work on help-seeking among Black women x First-Generation College Students in STEM.

Talking about the work and research is cool. I’m more so just happy to friends, colleagues, and peers just hanging in there, alive, and in good(ish) spirits. I don’t have words describe the heaviness so I’m just happy to see folks still out here being and doing #AERA2025

Come check it out tomorrow! We’re doing Pecha Kucha talks. I’ll my process for writing autoethnographic research for publication.

I wanted to sleep in but my body woke up promptly at 6 😔

Dissertation deposited and approved! It’s finally out of my hands 🙌🏾 (Until I try to publish it.)

I made it happen somehow but now I’m so tired. Family trip was canceled, maybe I will try for APA.

Surround yourself with people who support you, challenge you, and remind you to be kind to yourself. Show up for them too! Engage in mutual support - it’s a great feeling.

Ms Drop with Drew and Dennis made a cute album. Just listened to it top to bottom to get through my cleaning #RHOA

I don’t do it for the recognition but it does feel good that others see my consistent dedication and service to students. All these awards are making me emotional. Up next is my convocation speech 😭

Officially Dr.Destiny! It’s been a hard six years but never because of the people I work with. Yesterday, I felt so loved and affirmed. I’m grateful for everyone that came. My ed psych fam was in the building. I’m excited to go back through the recording. ✨ I’m napping until AERA

I’ve been busy this spring but ya girl is a Doctor now! Dr. Destiny has a nice ring to it ✨

Come check out this session! I’ll be talking about autoethnographic research.

Won a campus award, journal article acceptance and I defend this week. Gotta celebrate all the wins, been a long time coming 🥹

A week out 😮

And then they shouted all of us down who appropriately shouted her out. I intentionally wrote Cashawn’s name into an academic researcher as the person who coined it so it would be in the research canon forever!

This summer I’ll start a new position as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Lynch School of Education and Human Development at Boston College! Excited to return to MA and be near my family. Next up dissertation defense ✨

Follow ASHE Grads on BlueSky to stay informed on upcoming events for graduate students at #ASHE2025 in Denver, CO! @ashegrads.bsky.social

Was a recipient of this scholarship along with others. It’s weird to see the programs and initiatives that have supported me come under attack or stripped away for those coming after me.