The Cost of Code-Switching

Jamila J. Lyiscott aka, Dr. J, is an award-winning scholar, poet, author, and nationally renowned speaker most well known for her viral TED talk, ‘3 Ways to Speak English,’ which has garnered over 5 million views. Dr. J is a self-proclaimed anti-codeswitch ambassador committed to exploring, asserting, and defending the value of Black life globally and ha been featured on Hulu, BBC Radio, NPR, in Spike Lee’s “2 Fists Up,” Cosmopolitan, NowThis, and many other media outlets nationally and internationally. She is the author of Black Appetite. White Food: Issues of Race, Voice, and Justice Within and Beyond the Classroom, currently serves as a professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, is the founding Co-director of the Center of Racial Justice and Youth Engaged Research, and has been an invited speaker at over 300 institutions across the world.