University-wide leadership inquiry
Grounded theory research examining leadership, change, retention, graduation, and belonging across higher education.
SCHOLARSHIP · PRAXIS · BECOMING
Breneil Malcolm PhD · they/them
Living, learning, and leading at the intersections.
Intersectional learning scientist. Multi-method researcher. Advocate. Health, fitness, and wellness professional.
AN INTERSECTIONAL PRACTICESCROLL TO EXPLORE ↓
A PRACTICE OF INTERSECTIONS
Multiplicity is not a departure from my work. It is its foundation.
I am an intersectional learning scientist, multi-method researcher, advocate, and health, fitness, and wellness professional. As an intersectional learning scientist, I center intersectionality in how I theorize and operationalize the study of learning as socioculturally and sociopolitically situated.
My approach is holistic, embracing the multiplicity of lived experiences and centering the presence of the self within my scholarly discourse and praxis. Across these interconnected dimensions of my work, I understand learning, knowledge production, and embodied experience as inseparable from the identities, relationships, and systems of power through which they emerge.
THE QUESTIONS I PURSUE
Bodies, knowledge, and the politics of becoming.
My scholarship explores learning as embodied, intersectional, and situated within historical and contemporary sociopolitical relations. Across theoretical, methodological, and empirical inquiry, I examine the dialectical relationship between violence and death, and resistance and advocacy.
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Trans* embodiment · Identity learning · Intersectionality · Decolonial inquiry
KNOWLEDGE IN CONVERSATION
Selected scholarship.
2026↗
PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLE
The whiteness agenda: A trans* of color critique for portraiture and autotheory as learning sciences discourse
Malcolm, B. · International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education
2025↗
PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLE
“Yes, we exist!”: Lived experiences from a Caribbean transgender and gender nonconforming group
Herry, A., Greer, D., Malcolm, B., & Sagner, E. · SAGE Open
2026↗
PEER-REVIEWED CONFERENCE PROCEEDING · SYMPOSIUM
Fostering educational intimacy: ILSSA intergenerational partnerships for purposeful community building
Collaborative scholarly output bringing together 18 authors
Explore the full bibliography on the Scholarship page.
LEADING CHANGE THROUGH PRACTICE
Equity is not only a commitment. It is a practice.
My professional work connects student success, educational equity, research, advocacy, and program and project management. Across institutions and communities, I work to translate critical inquiry into responsive initiatives, collaborative processes, and meaningful organizational change.
Bias response and institutional learning
Longitudinal analysis and cross-unit collaboration supporting evidence-informed equity assessment.
Student success and professional communication
Multidisciplinary program coordination, learner support, and educational development across institutional contexts.
05 / LEADERSHIP & SERVICE
Leadership as collective transformation.
Through scholarly publishing, nonprofit governance, disciplinary equity initiatives, and intergenerational mentorship, I work to expand participation and advance communities of learning and practice.
EDITORIAL STEWARDSHIP · GOVERNANCE · ADVOCACY
06 / HEALTH, FITNESS & WELLNESS
My body as a site of becoming.
My relationship with health, fitness, and wellness is inseparable from my ongoing process of becoming. My biopsychosocial philosophy centers empowerment, advocacy, and the multiplicity of embodied experiences.
7 YEARS OF COACHING · NASM · AFAA · ISSA
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Knowledge is relational. So is my practice.
I welcome opportunities for scholarly exchange, collaboration, advocacy, and conversations across disciplines and communities.
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