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Toshiba Adams, Ph.D. serves as a full-time professor and Instructional Chair (IC) of early childhood education at Milwaukee Area Technical College (MATC). Additionally, she assumes an adjunct professor position at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in Educational Policy. She has assumed a teaching position in higher education for over 20 years. 

Dr. Adams is dedicated to developing culturally relevant pedagogies that are rooted in liberation and social justice. As a feminist scholar, she incorporates Black feminist epistemologies and critical race frameworks into her teaching approach. Her approach aids students in identifying social inequalities, challenges them to critically examine dominant narratives that perpetuate social inequalities and encourages them to serve as change agents.

Dr. Adams’ research interests include examining the relationship between structural inequalities and child development; the early education workforce; the social, political and educational mobility of populations of color; and the intersection between social identities and public policy. To date, she has authored several peer-reviewed publications in these areas.

Prior to embarking upon a career at the college and university level, Dr. Adams served as the founder and co-owner of a NAEYC-accredited early education center, from 1998-2008, partnering with my parents to provide high quality, developmentally appropriate and culturally relevant educational programming to children and families within the city of Milwaukee. Her most recent contribution to the field includes serving as the founder of Sankofa Consulting & Training, an organization that supports the early education workforce through consulting, research and responsive professional development opportunities.