Dr. Taylor Cummings

And once I found out I can do a study on myself,

I said, oh, that's exactly what I'm doing because that's what I was doing anyway.

I wanted to understand the process of miseducation.

I wanted to understand the process of indoctrination because that's what I went through.

I went through being told lies in the K-12 system, in private school, in public school.

I went to go to PWIs.

and I didn't get the education that I got at HBCU.

And even some people don't even have the type of education I had at HBCU.

They're being taught by non-black professors.

And so understanding what that looks like and how to take education back into our own hands was important because I really wanted to understand what happens when you're socialized in a Eurocentric worldview, because I knew what it did for me.

I know how confused I was.

I know how lost I was.

I know how much stuff did not make sense.

And so a big part of it for me is demystifying the process, demystifying science.

But understanding how deeply connected science is to art, how deeply connected science is to spirituality.

And so even growing up in the church and private Christian settings, it's like they try so hard to keep science and spirituality separate or science and religion separate.

But when you read the books, it's all science.

And so really understanding what that looks like and why it was done that way.

So my work was just a natural progression into who I am.

And that's why I did an autoethnography program.