This is Ashley Newby and you’re listening to The Black Studies podcast, a series of conversations examining the history of the field. Our conversations engage with a wide range of activists and scholars - senior figures in the field, late doctoral students, and everyone in between, culture workers, and political organizers - in order to explore the cultural and political meaning of Black Studies as an area of inquiry and its critical methods.

Today's conversation is with Rahman A. Culver, an educator and activist who works to support measurable, lasting social change. Culver earned his B.A. in Afro-American Studies from University of Maryland in 2001, working to found and serving as director of the Saturday Freedom School program. He is certified in secondary and special education, holding a Master's degree in Public Administration from George Mason University. Culver has worked as an educator in the Montgomery County and Prince George's County public school systems.