 Greetings and good day to you. My name is Dr. Nubian Sein, and I'm a clinical assistant professor at the Tulane School of Social Work. I am excited to speak with you about my areas of passion, as well as a recent publication. My areas of passion are incarceration reentry, especially with women and girls, the Afrocentric's perspective and social work, healing and creative arts in social work, and black women and healing and form leadership. I adore these four areas as they sum up not only my research interests, but also my practice interests that have been so abundant in the past 20 years. The Afrocentric perspective and social work is a theoretical basis that grounds all of my work, and incarceration reentry is where I focus many of my practice experiences along with research. Healing and creative arts and social work is a joy of mine, especially, and I feel as important as a practitioner, as an educator, as a community steward, that you make room for the creative. And I'll speak a little about that with the publication I want to discuss. And my fourth area, black women and healing and form leadership, that area is very important because there are many black women, especially in the South, and that's my focus, who harness a great deal of power, of not only power presently, but also ancestral power and knowledge, power and knowledge through their personal experiences, power and knowledge through engaging in certain works across the intersections of social movements and so on. So I honor the expertise and the life and the sacrifices that black women continue to make, especially in leadership throughout the South and certain community settings. These topics are very impactful in various ways. The Afrocentric perspective allows us to be grounded and the humanistic values of folks to honor a person's culture, to honor a person's history, to honor a whole person's essence when you begin to look at not only research and drawing those conclusions from research, but also drawing those conclusions in the name of practice and intervention. Incarceration and reentry, especially with women and girls, is very important because that work and that research has opened up doors to allow more conversation, more awareness, also funding for individuals and entities across the South, especially. The healing and the creating arts in social work is very important as a scholar, as a practitioner, as an educator. I find it very important to always be grounded in the creative and in the spiritual work that social work can beautifully make room for. So the healing and the creative arts is very pivotal, especially in this time of COVID, when we're thinking about the need for more social workers, also there is a need for more creativity and artistic intervention as those pieces of art and pieces of spirituality are very important when forming interventions and making clear decisions when it comes to the essence of people. Also, a lot of my research has overlapped many of my four areas and my last book chapter was a chapter in an anthology by Complex Publishing called Our Voices, Our Stories, Advancing Celebrating and Empowering Girls and Women of Color. So this anthology was released in 2019 by Complex Publishing out of Jersey, City, New Jersey. And the title of my piece was called Motherhood as Immortality. And again, reiterating on the power of healing and the creative, this was a poem. The poem was in genuflexion of my mother and mothering period and how the act of motherhood, even along the spectrum of mothering is a form of immortality. Being a mother is allows folks to claim stake as being immortal because of the power of mothering that furthers generations, furthers generations further forward and can often help heal generations in the past. So this poem was written in honor of my mother and talking about the things that she sacrificed and the things that she endured and the things she continues to endure in her lifetime as a mother, not only to me, but other people and to communities. And so that piece and in my work, I balance the heavy empirical with more narrative, with artistic means, with multimedia means of, and different types of ethnographic methodology. I combine them and I balance all of it because all of it is important. And I always practice having my research and my ideals and social work values and principles and my teaching and my work as a practitioner all being alignment. And I'm able to do this in these four areas and come out with a balanced and a well-rounded way in which I teach and which I practice and which research is published and shared. Thank you for listening. This is Dr. Nubian Sun, clinical assistant professor with the Tulane School of Social Work. Have a wonderful day and be well.