PhD Student Sakara Wages Featured in Madison365

Sakara Wages

PhD student Sakara Wages is featured in a Madison365 story about her work at UW-Platteville as one of the first two Black alumni to return in teaching positions to the university in 10 years. Sakara is a 4th-year student the PhD program in social welfare. Her interests include anti-racist pedagogy, Black feminist theory, social work education, and Black family welfare.

Two Black instructors at UW-Platteville are the first Black alumni to return in teaching positions in 10 years, the school confirmed. Sakara Wages and Jeremy Payne both started their roles this year at UW-Platteville, making them the first two Black instructor alumni to teach in 10 years, Paul Erickson, director of communications at UW-Platteville, said. […]