Breakout Workshop - Individual Track
Saturday, Feb. 8 | 10:30 a.m. | Room 2214
This session encourages participants to explore transformative approaches to student leadership engagement grounded in the principles of liberation and equity. Engaging with critical leadership theories and practices, the session will focus on how student leaders can move beyond traditional frameworks to foster liberatory leadership learning environments. Attendees will learn strategies to deconstruct systems of oppression, uplift marginalized voices, and promote inclusive leadership development. This session will support the development of conscious leaders to reimagine student leadership engagement as a pathway to leadership for liberation.
About the speaker
Johnnie L. Allen Jr. (he/him/his) is a PhD. Student in the Higher Education program at Florida State University, where he is a graduate research and teaching assistant, and an instructor in the Leadership Learning Research Center (LLRC). Johnnie is a graduate student fellow with Howard University’s Center for HBCU Research, Leadership, and Policy, exploring Black college men’s gender and leadership experiences at HBCUs. His research interests include examining critical masculinities and Black college men’s embodiment of Afrafeminist ideologies and Black feminisms as a form of resistance to hegemonic masculinity.