In late March, Tamiah Brevard-Rodriguez had a plan leading up to her April 24 due date. Coined “Operation Dissertation Before Baby,” the plan included Brevard-Rodriguez completing her dissertation and having her baby in time to celebrate graduation and the summer with family. In that order. Brevard-Rodriguez’s dissertation presentation – for her doctorate at Rutgers Graduate School of Education – focused on the beauty pressures placed on Black college women while enrolled at predominantly White educational institutions. But while she was in the middle of fine-tuning the dissertation early on March…
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