Peace, I’m Torrence.

I am a PhD student attending Rutgers University—New Brunswick, in Educational Theory, Organization, and Policy, with a Black Studies approach, in the Graduate School of Education.

My research interests considers how antiBlack logics of settler-colonialism and neoliberalism in U.S. schools, and schools globally, operate as a structuring, saturating, and obscuring social force that impacts knowledge production, value association, school curriculum, sociocultural-political development, personhood, economic and educational investment & outcomes, and radical imaginations, for Black youth. 

Prior to Rutgers, I worked as a public school teacher in Denver where I taught 6th and 7th grade ELA. I have a MA in Education, with an emphasis in Learning Sciences & Human Development, from University of Colorado Boulder and a BA in Sociology, with a minor in Africana Studies, from the University of Northern Colorado, where I was a Ronald E. McNair Scholar. As a McNair scholar, I conducted program award-winning research exploring how Black students navigated and made sense of the racism they experienced while attending a Historically White College and University, and ultimately the effects of racism—resulting in Racial Battle Fatigue.

My site contains my CV, information about my research and teaching. Feel free to contact me here.