Raven Moses is an early career scholar and Adjunct Professor in the Hallmarks Core General Education Program at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. She has a Ph.D. in Africology & African American Studies from Temple University, a M.A. in African American Studies from Temple University, a M.A. in English Literature from Rutgers University, and a B.A. in English from The College of Charleston.

Her broad, interdisciplinary research interests include Black identities, African-centered critical pedagogy and curriculum development, and Africana literary theory and analysis. Her specific research focuses on exploring the contextualized development, embodiment and negotiation of Black identities and agency. She primarily engages this work in two ways:

1) through the systematic development of effective culture-influenced critical pedagogies aimed at improving educational experiences and psychosocial outcomes for African American students, and

2) through the interrogation of Africana literature as cultural artifacts that present representations of Black identities in the past, present and imagined future.

As a scholar, her overall goal is to contribute to the continued uplift of all Africana people through research, teaching and activism that is geared toward critical reclamation and examination of Africana culture in the past and present and toward the beneficial utilization and transmission of Africana culture in the present and future. She is committed to:

Culturally Grounded Scholarship: exploring and expanding knowledge that is both accessible to and designed to improve the lives of Africana people wherever they find themselves

Lifelong Teaching and Learning: fulfilling the responsibility for intergenerational transmission of knowledge by embracing every opportunity to both educate and learn from the community

Active Social Responsibility: working with, for and on behalf of the Black community by imagining and implementing collectively-devised solutions that will enhance the quality of life for all.

Additionally, Raven has over ten years experience teaching college courses on a variety of topics including Africana/Black Studies, African American Literature, American Literature, and Academic Writing. She has taught hundreds of students over the years and her primary focus in the classroom is on encouraging students to analyze the meaningful contributions of African-descended people to global history and society, to see the functional connection between literature and reality, and to envision themselves as integral and active participants in the struggle for solutions to the problems that negatively impact their various communities.

Outside of the academy, Raven is a homeschool mom to two wonderful children, works as an African-centered homeschool curriculum consultant for other Black homeschooling families, and writes Black fantasy fiction.