Ezekiel Joubert III is an educator, community-engaged scholar, and creative writer. He is an Assistant Professor of Educational Foundations in the Division of Advanced and Applied Studies at California State University-Los Angeles. His research and writing focus on the intersections of racial capitalism and Black education, the political economy of student movement, the history of educational inequality in Black rural communities near Metro Detroit and in the Midwest, and Black organic educational intellectual thought and activism. Additionally, his work centers narratives of Black social life, the speculative and spiritual, and the poetics of teachings and learning with marginalized communities.