Robert P. Robinson is an Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at John Jay College, Doctoral Faculty in the Interactive Technology & Pedagogy Program, and Adjunct Professor in the Urban Education Program at The Graduate Center, CUNY. Prior to higher education, he was a K-12 educator and mentor for 11 years. His broad research and teaching focus on the Black Freedom Movement, Black education history, Blackqueer studies, digital humanities, history of education, and curriculum studies. His prospective book project is a history of the Black Panther Party’s Oakland Community School (OCS) as a site for understanding Black self-determination, the shift in mainstream curriculum and pedagogy, and the Black radical imagination in education.