Dr. Roderick L. Carey
Dr. Roderick L. Carey is an associate professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Sciences in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Delaware where he recently received tenure. He is the founder and director of The Black Boy Mattering Project, a partnership with Delaware schools that studies how youth perceive their significance to others and creates contexts for them to imagine mattering more robustly. He has written extensively over the years and his work has appeared in the American Educational Research Journal, and the Harvard Educational Review. Prior to earning a PhD at the University of Maryland College Park, Dr. Carey taught high school English in Washington, DC.