Heather Streets

Heather M. Streets comes from a family of scholars and is the sixth to earn a doctorate, which she completed at the University of San Francisco (USF). Using a term she coined called the collegiate Black space, her research focused on how Black students who attend historically White universities use online spaces for support, knowledge production, and organizing for activism. Heather’s scholarship centers her ongoing interest in deepening and expanding conversations about anti-Blackness in higher education and uncovering the ways in which Black students respond. She is honored to serve as an adjunct professor and writing coach for Black doctoral students at USF.

• Black student experience
• Academic writing
• Coaching and mentoring

• Anti-Blackness in higher education
• Digital counter-spaces
• Peer support at HWIs

• University of San Francisco, EdD in International and Multicultural Education
• Golden Gate University, MBA in Marketing
• University of California at Los Angeles, BA in Afro-American Studies, Economics Minor

• SoE Social Justice Scholarship: University of San Francisco, 2 years
• IME Doctoral Scholarship: University of San Francisco, 5 years

• Streets, H. (2021). Book Review: From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation. International Journal of Human Rights Education, 5(1).