Yoruba Mutakabbir

Yoruba Taheerah Mutakabbir is Associate Professor and Interim Department Chair of Education Administration and Foundations at Texas Southern University. She earned a doctorate in educational leadership with a concentration in higher education from Clemson University. She has written about religious minorities in higher education and the recruitment of non-Black students to HBCUs. She co-authored a chapter on the recruitment and experiences non-Black students at HBCUs in Exploring Issues of Diversity at HBCUs [Information Age]. In addition to a co-authored book on religious minorities in higher education published by Routledge, a co-authored article on the experiences of Black, Muslim male students at HBCUs is published in the Journal of African-American Males in Education (JAAME). Her most recent publication is Latinx Students’ Knowledge of and Inclination to Attend HBCUs in the Association of Mexican American Educators (AMAE) Journal. A native of Columbia, SC, she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology from Hampton University and a Master of Science degree in educational policy from Georgia State University.