Editorial Board

J. Luke Wood

 Dr. J. Luke Wood is the Co-Editor of the Journal of African American Males in Education (JAAME). Luke is an Assistant Professor of Leadership and Organizational Studies in the Executive Doctoral Program in Education at Lincoln Memorial University. Luke is the former Co-Coordinator of the Arizona Program for Policy, Ethics & Education Leadership in Arizona. Dr. Wood holds a PhD in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies with a concentration in Higher Education from Arizona State University. His dissertation focused on academic success factors for African American male students in the community college. Luke is also co-author of the textbook, Community College Leadership & Administration: Research, Theory & Practice. Luke has been the recipient of numerous awards including the: the Sally Casanova Pre-Doctoral Fellowship; Top 30 under 30 from the Sacramento Observer; the Distinguished Fellows Presentation award from the International Society for the Exploration of Teaching in Learning. Luke is the Chair of the Multicultural/Multiethnic Education: Research, Theory & Practice (MME) Special Interest Group (SIG) of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Tomashu “Kenyatta” Jones, Sr. is the Co-Editor of the Journal of African American Males in Education (JAAME). He is a native of Los Angeles, CA.  He is currently a PhD Candidate at the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies with an emphasis in Urban Schooling, at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA).  In addition to his Sacramento State Master of Science degree in Counseling (Marriage and Family Therapy & School Counseling PPS Credential), he holds a B.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies (Social Work, Ethnic Studies, and Education) from Sacramento State University.  Upon receiving his Masters degree, he was awarded the distinguishable honor of 2006 commencement speaker and valedictorian for the Sacramento State University Education Department.  He is a California State University (CSU) Doctoral Forgivable Loan Fellow and CSU Chancellor Office Sally Casanova Pre-Doctoral Scholar. Tomashu’s main teaching interest has been race and education in Counselor and Teacher Education. He has taught in several educational and professional development programs including Race, Class, and Gender Inequality in Education, Multicultural and Community counseling courses, and seminars/symposium on Black Males in education in urban and suburban schools. He currently lives in Los Angeles with his son Ken Jones, Jr. 

Rebecca Neal is the Section Editor for Special Education for the Journal of African American Males in Education (JAAME).  She is currently a research assistant in the Division of Advanced Studies in Education Policy, Leadership, and Curriculum within the Mary Lou Fulton Institute and Graduate School of Education at Arizona State University. She also has worked as a special education instructor for over twelve years and is currently a Asa G. Hilliard III and Barbara A. Sizemore Fellow for Research on African Americans and Education. Rebecca is also an instructor at Arizona State University where she teaches a course on the overview of special education. Her area of expertise lies in the area of learning disabilities and behavioral support. Rebecca is interested in examining the systematic ways African American males come to be disproportionately represented in special education. Critical to her research is examining the perception of African American males in special education regarding the occurrence of racial and gender Microaggressions. A branch of her study also includes investigating how social class, family life, ethnicity and gender intersect with school achievement and student placement. She is very committed to developing the capacity of teacher knowledge, in order to increase the success students experience at school.  

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Dr. Adriel A. Hilton is Section Editor for Education Policy. Currently, Dr. Hilton serves as executive assistant to the president at Upper Iowa University.  While a public policy fellow at the Greater Baltimore Committee, he worked closely with the CEO and policy advisors to research, develop, and advocate a public policy agenda related to the business organization’s work on such issues as economic growth, regional transportation, education and workforce preparedness.  A graduate of the Higher Education (Ph.D.) program at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland, Hilton has been a Frederick Douglass Scholar at Clarion University of Pennsylvania in the College of Education and the Office of the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs.  He was featured as one of Ebony Magazine’s “2009 Young Leaders Under 30” for his educational achievements, service to the community and leadership.  Dr. Hilton earned his master’s degree in Applied Social Science with a concentration in public administration from Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University and completed his undergraduate degree as a cum laude graduate in Business Administration with a concentration in finance from Morehouse College. In his young career so far, he has received numerous accolades, including the American Association of Blacks in Higher Education’s “Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation” award and the Outstanding Research Award from the American College Personnel Association’s Standing Committee for Men.  

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Dr. B.J. Snowden is the Section Editor for Community Colleges. Currently, he works at Cosumnes River College in Sacramento California as a Professor of Radio and New Media and the director for the Cosumnes River College’s Center for the Advancement of Staff and Student Learning (CASSL).  B.J. earned his Doctorate in Education (EdD) from the University of San Francisco in International and Multicultural Education with an emphasis in Organization and Leadership.  In addition to his Doctorate degree, he holds a Masters in Educational Technology from Pepperdine University and a Bachelors degree from San Jose State in Radio Television and Film.  B.J. holds memberships in a variety of educational organizations in addition to being the recipient of numerous awards including the John W. Rice award, an American Institutional Research Fellowship, the CSU Pre Doctoral Scholar award and the CSU Forgivable Loan award.  His research interests include the first year college experience, community college education, and social linguistic behaviors of Black youth.  

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Dr. Rema Reynolds is the Section Editor for Counselor Education. Dr. Reynolds is an Assistant Professor at Azusa Pacific University teaching aspiring school counselors and school psychologists and offers support and instruction to pre-service Secondary teachers at UCLA’s teacher education program, Center X. Rema is also a former teacher, counselor, administrator, and currently organizes Black parents for the improvement of student achievement in various schools. Having recently earned her doctorate (PhD) from the Urban Schooling division of the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA, Rema received the competitive University of California Office of the President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship. She will further her research agenda focusing on Black families in the Psychology Department at UC Riverside. Dr. Reynold’s research is centered in urban schools serving culturally, ethnically, and racially diverse students and families.  Specifically, Rema examines issues of parent engagement as they relate to Black families and student achievement, instructional strategies educators employ to honor and incorporate literacies students bring to the classroom, cultural competencies counselors and school counselors acquire through their respective preparatory programs, and the roles of school administrators in community and civic development.   Within the last three years before finishing her doctorate, Dr. Reynolds was recognized with an Emerging Scholar Award at APU, was a UC ACCORD fellow, and has published five articles and presented at numerous conferences. 

Stanley L. Johnson, Jr. is Section Editor for Urban Education. He is currently a PhD Candidate in the Urban Schooling Division of UCLA’s Graduate School of Education & Information Studies. His research focuses on critically investigating high achieving settings for African American male students. He is particularly interested in secondary English teachers’ instructional and pedagogical practices that are instrumental in creating both academic and social environments for African American males to set and maintain the motivation needed to perform at high academic levels.  Johnson holds a Masters of Art degree in Secondary Education from Loyola Marymount University and received his Bachelors of Art degree in American Literature and Culture with college honors from UCLA.  Currently, Johnson is a Certificated Contract Consultant in Curriculum and Instructional Services for the Los Angeles County Office of Education. Johnson provides consultancy services in language arts, standards based instruction, leadership training for emerging administrators, and works closely with low-performing schools trying to exit from the School Assistance Intervention Team (SAIT) and Program Improvement (PI) corrective action programs sanctioned by the federal No Child Left Behind Act.  Johnson has a solid background in preparing and training teachers to work in urban schools and can offer solutions to the various challenges that they will ultimately face. Johnson began his career in education through the Teach for America (TFA) program.  He taught for five years at Centennial High School in the Compton, CA, teaching all levels of English/Language Arts and Advanced Placement Language and Composition courses. Johnson was promoted to Program Coordinator, a district office administrative position, after successfully serving as Centennial’s Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) Self-Study Chairperson which led to accreditation re-instatement in 2004.