Sosanya Jones

Dr. Sosanya Jones teaches courses on higher education governance and administration, policy, community and board relations, and advanced qualitative research. For over 25 years, she served in a number of higher education roles including retention counselor, residence hall director, coordinator for student success programs, assistant director of ACCESS VA/GEAR-UP, and liaison for the Virginia Black Caucus during her tenure at The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV). Dr. Jones’ research interests are concerned with racial equity and uplift for Black people and the higher education institutions that historically serve them. This includes topics such as state fiscal policy and the nexus between equity policy and practice, HBCU campus climate, HBCU faculty utilization of artificial intelligence, the use of social fiction and the creative arts as counter storytelling, and the adoption of mindfulness practice in the training higher education professionals. Dr. Jones’ scholarship has appeared in journals such as Qualitative Inquiry, Teachers College Record, The Review of Higher Education, The American Behavioral Scientist, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, & Interest Groups and Advocacy, among many others. She is an inaugural higher education member of The Pulitzer Center’s The 1619 Project Education Network and an inaugural Propel HBCU Faculty Fellow. Most recently, Dr. Jones received a HCAI Mid-career Re-invigoration Seed Grant sponsored by Howard University’s Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence to support research on the utilization of artificial intelligence in HBCU educator preparation programs.