{"id":32095,"date":"2024-02-20T09:01:31","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T14:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/?p=32095"},"modified":"2024-02-20T09:01:32","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T14:01:32","slug":"mother-daughter-educators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/mother-daughter-educators\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother-Daughter Alums Share a Vocation\u2014Forging a Special Bond"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">Both have devoted their careers to helping kids succeed, with a focus on the needs of Black girls and their communities<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-cornell-red-color has-text-color\"><em>&#8220;Bear Hugs&#8221; celebrates heartwarming stories of Cornellians on the Hill and around the world. Have an idea? Email us at <a href=\"&#109;&#x61;&#x69;&#x6c;&#116;&#x6f;&#58;&#x63;o&#x72;&#110;&#101;&#x6c;&#108;&#x69;a&#x6e;s&#64;&#99;o&#x72;&#110;&#x65;l&#x6c;&#46;&#x65;du\">&#x63;&#x6f;&#114;&#110;el&#x6c;&#x69;&#x61;&#x6e;&#x73;&#64;&#x63;&#x6f;&#114;&#x6e;&#101;&#108;&#x6c;&#x2e;&#x65;d&#x75;<\/a>!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By <strong>Joe Wilensky<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Michelle Brown-Grant \u201988 and Misha Inniss-Thompson \u201916 both majored in human development and minored in Africana studies. Both pursued careers that have delved into education, childhood and adolescent development, and the building and sustaining of Black community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And both found influential mentors at Cornell and elsewhere\u2014but Inniss-Thompson has had an invaluable resource that Brown-Grant didn\u2019t: Brown-Grant herself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Brown-Grant\u2019s daughter, Inniss-Thompson has benefited from her mother\u2019s experience, education, and guidance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"508\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/02\/Sept_2006_with_baby_bro_Tyree-A-2.jpg\" alt=\"Michelle Brown-Grant \u201988 and Misha Inniss-Thompson \u201916 in 2006, with Michelle holding baby Tyree\" class=\"wp-image-32109 size-full\" 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2006.<\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Brown-Grant has been inspired by Inniss-Thompson\u2019s work as a <a href=\"https:\/\/psychology.cornell.edu\/misha-inniss-thompson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cornell faculty member<\/a> and a leading researcher in her field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI think about those \u2018circles of influence\u2019 in our lives; how who you are is informed by who is around you,\u201d Brown-Grant says, referencing a human development course she took with famed professor Urie Bronfenbrenner \u201938.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs it so often is for Black women, I\u2019ve been so busy living my life and doing the work that I didn\u2019t start reflecting on it until I started having conversations with Misha about it\u2014and that has been a blessing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A first-generation college student, Brown-Grant worked as a third-grade teacher (in the same classroom she\u2019d attended in the Bronx) after graduation, going on to earn two master\u2019s degrees, become a principal, and serve on the co-founding administrative team for a charter school network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>I\u2019ve been so busy living my life and doing the work that I didn\u2019t start reflecting on it until I started having conversations with Misha about it\u2014and that has been a blessing.<\/p>\n<cite><strong>Michelle Brown-Grant \u201988 <\/strong><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Today she&#8217;s a teacher-education professor and administrator at Bloomfield College of Montclair State University and is conducting doctoral research on Black women school principals in the Northeast and how their identities inform their leadership practices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Inniss-Thompson, who earned a doctorate from Vanderbilt, is an assistant professor of psychology who examines how communities, schools, and families shape Black girls\u2019 wellness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She says she has always been drawn to questions of what it means to be a Black person navigating predominantly white spaces, exploring Black brilliance and beauty, and the mental health of adolescent Black girls in particular.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>\u201cOur work feeds off each other,\u201d Inniss-Thompson observes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn so many ways, the educator that I am today is largely informed by the ways that my mom interacts with her students, the ways that she prominently displays positive representations of Black people and folks of color more broadly.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2022, Inniss-Thompson <a href=\"https:\/\/news.cornell.edu\/stories\/2023\/12\/exploring-girlhoods-black-scholars-connect-imagine-and-heal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">co-founded a working group<\/a> in Ithaca that encourages self-reflection and community-building for Black women who work with Black girls. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"794\" height=\"796\" src=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/02\/IMG_0082-A-2.jpg\" alt=\"Michelle Brown-Grant \u201988 (right) and Misha Inniss-Thompson \u201916 in the Human Ecology Building\" class=\"wp-image-32108 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/02\/IMG_0082-A-2.jpg 794w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/02\/IMG_0082-A-2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/02\/IMG_0082-A-2-150x150.jpg 150w, 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most recent research<\/a>, based on an afterschool program she co-founded while at Vanderbilt, explores how Black girls create spaces alongside Black women that offer psychological safety and the ability to be their authentic selves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brown-Grant\u2019s current work also includes leading the New Jersey chapter of the National Black Child Development Institute. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President of the Cornell Black Alumni Association (CBAA) from 2015\u201318, she has <a href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/article\/connecting-black-alumni\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">long been passionate<\/a> about helping Black alumni reconnect with the University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Our work feeds off each other. In so many ways, the educator that I am today is largely informed by the ways that my mom interacts with her students.<\/p>\n<cite><strong>Misha Inniss-Thompson \u201916<\/strong><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cKnowing I had access to a lot more opportunities than she did at the time really shaped my own trajectory,\u201d Inniss-Thompson says. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI wouldn\u2019t have been able to complete a PhD in five years if it weren\u2019t for faculty pushing me and my mom saying, \u2018you\u2019re going to focus and finish your goal.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the two have not yet formally worked together, they often give feedback on each other\u2019s research, and have attended the same conferences and watched each other present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/02\/E7779779-26EF-4506-9486-C6DE6F407D0CIMG_6485-A-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Michelle Brown-Grant \u201988 (right) and Misha Inniss-Thompson \u201916 at a meeting of the National Black Child Development Institute\" class=\"wp-image-32091\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/02\/E7779779-26EF-4506-9486-C6DE6F407D0CIMG_6485-A-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/02\/E7779779-26EF-4506-9486-C6DE6F407D0CIMG_6485-A-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/02\/E7779779-26EF-4506-9486-C6DE6F407D0CIMG_6485-A-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/02\/E7779779-26EF-4506-9486-C6DE6F407D0CIMG_6485-A-800x450.jpg 800w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/02\/E7779779-26EF-4506-9486-C6DE6F407D0CIMG_6485-A-608x342.jpg 608w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/02\/E7779779-26EF-4506-9486-C6DE6F407D0CIMG_6485-A-304x171.jpg 304w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/02\/E7779779-26EF-4506-9486-C6DE6F407D0CIMG_6485-A-152x85.jpg 152w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/02\/E7779779-26EF-4506-9486-C6DE6F407D0CIMG_6485-A-1184x666.jpg 1184w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/02\/E7779779-26EF-4506-9486-C6DE6F407D0CIMG_6485-A-592x333.jpg 592w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/02\/E7779779-26EF-4506-9486-C6DE6F407D0CIMG_6485-A-296x166.jpg 296w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/02\/E7779779-26EF-4506-9486-C6DE6F407D0CIMG_6485-A-1264x711.jpg 1264w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/02\/E7779779-26EF-4506-9486-C6DE6F407D0CIMG_6485-A-632x356.jpg 632w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/02\/E7779779-26EF-4506-9486-C6DE6F407D0CIMG_6485-A-316x178.jpg 316w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/02\/E7779779-26EF-4506-9486-C6DE6F407D0CIMG_6485-A-400x225.jpg 400w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/02\/E7779779-26EF-4506-9486-C6DE6F407D0CIMG_6485-A-200x113.jpg 200w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/02\/E7779779-26EF-4506-9486-C6DE6F407D0CIMG_6485-A-100x56.jpg 100w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/02\/E7779779-26EF-4506-9486-C6DE6F407D0CIMG_6485-A.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">At a meeting of the National Black Child Development Institute.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhile she\u2019s a teacher and I\u2019m a community psychologist and a Black girlhood scholar, we still have these spaces of overlap,\u201d Inniss-Thompson says. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe have both been passionate in thinking about, \u2018How do we center Black girls and women in educational spaces?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Top: Michelle Brown-Grant \u201988 (left) and Misha Inniss-Thompson \u201916 on campus during <em>the 2018 CBAA Reunion<\/em>. 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