Dillard holds a Ph.D. in Educational Leadership and Language, Literacy and Culture from Washington State University, and was most recently the Mary Frances Early Professor in Teacher Education at the University of Georgia. Dillard tells The Skanner why Seattle University, a private Jesuit school with a student enrollment of about 7,500, is a progressive hub on the cusp of exciting changes – and why an equitable education system must include “inviting Blackness to show up.”