Kimberly Lloyd Ph.D.
We Got You Covered, founder and Director, Kimberly Lloyd is an African American woman, who is a Ph.D., a police officer, and a previous Chicago Public School educator and administrator. For over 26 years, she has had a front row seat to the adverse effects of poverty, lack of nutrition, subpar schools, inadequate teachers, and poor policing as it pertains to African American boys and how these forces negatively affect their literacy. These adverse experiences that are all too common for these youth are often sources of trauma. In young children, the effects of trauma are frequently masked but can show up as uncontrolled anger amongst other things, especially in the classroom, when exposed.
As a researcher, an officer of the law, a former administrator, and a human being, it is
vitally important to recognize that African American boys are historically and in present society a group that is often denied the benefit of freedoms and considerations that are unquestioningly lavished onto other children. She has had an extraordinary vantage point as have been both a part of the school system and the justice system, both of which in their own, yet interconnected rights continue to fail African American boys.
Fisk University - HBCU
Where my Grooming All Began
Fisk Homecoming 2023
As a young African American teenager who attended an HBCU, I walked the same grounds and halls that WEB DuBois once walked before me.. I had ACCESS to some of the most influential African Americans in American history such as Cicely Tyson, Mills Davis, Thomas Dorsey just to name a few. As a Fisk student we were all gathered in the Chapel and from that day to this one I remember the encounter as if it occurred yesterday. Mills Davis played his trumpet. Cicely Tyson talked with us about following our dreams, marriage, and how we should make good use of our short time at Fisk. Thomas Dorsey shared when and why he wrote the song Precious Lord. While sitting at his kitchen table and mourning the loss of his wife and child who were killed in a car accident, he put pen to paper.
As an adult what I know now is that a good education is ALWAYS about ACCESS...and unfortunately access is often denied to black and brown children! Consequently, I like others before me and after me are standing on the shoulders of many.
We Must Make An Impact! We Must Give Back!