Join us for conversations with Faith Overall '19 and Demetrice Worley, Ph.D. '90.
Faith Overall: Faith is a Chicago Public Schools English teacher and spoken word artist who finds sustainability and liberation in artistic expression. Since graduating from Illinois State University, Faith has dedicated her time as an educator and poet to amplifying and connecting the ways in which emotion can become the driving force for intense and necessary conversations. Her teaching practice requires young scholars to not only examine themselves, but examine and respond to the ways in which our intersectional identities play an integral role in broadening and deepening our understanding of what it means to be human.
Demetrice Worley: Demetrice is a full professor of English at Bradley University. She holds a bachelor's in English from Bradley University, a master's in English from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and a doctorate in English Studies from Illinois State University. She authored Tongues in My Mouth (poetry) and co-edited Language and Image in the Reading-Writing Classroom, and African American Literature. Her poetry appears in literary journals and anthologies. In addition, her poem "Femicide/Femicidio: The Murdered and Disappeared Women of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico" A Crown of Sonnets, won third place in the 2009 Split This Rock Poetry Contest.