Chetachukwu U. Agwoeme

Chetachukwu is a first year doctoral student in Urban Education PhD at the University of Pittsburgh.  His research focuses on Black students in K-12, anti-blackness, student safety, and the school-to-prison pipeline. Raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Chetachukwu witnessed the effects of the school to prison pipeline and how intersections of race and issues around poverty claimed many of his Black peers and further stratified their opportunity. Influenced by Black Critical Theory, Chetachukwu aims to interrogate the current idea of  “student safety” and what safety looks like for Black students attending schools occupied by systems of law enforcement; the same systems that disproportionately harm Black students and frame Black students as “problems.”  He also believes in the idea of researchers making their work accessible through multiple mediums outside of academia; especially in organizing and non academia related social justice spaces.  Chetachukwu also holds degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (BS, Rehabilitation Psychology) and the University of Maryland, College Park (MA, Education Policy).