Kia Turner

Thesis Title: Revolt! Rally! Revise! Reclaiming the Power of the Black Narrative in Activist Achievements Against Harvard

What Now: Student at Yale Law School

Hist & Lit was one of the best decisions I made at Harvard. I fell in love with both the content and skills that are essential to the concentration. While I was unsure of what I wanted to do during my time in college, I always knew that I was passionate about what I was doing in my tutorials and seminars. I can confidently say that I walked out of every class I took in Hist & Lit having grown—both as a human being and an academic. Two of my favorite classes—Stories of Slavery and Freedom and my sophomore tutorial—made me realize that I loved working with other people to uncover atypical meaning from texts.

After graduation, I was a Founding Fellow of the Harvard Teacher Fellows and earned my Masters in Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 2017. I then taught for five years, four of which were spent teaching Middle School English in Harlem.  I recently finished my PhD in race, inequality, and language in education at Stanford Graduate School of Education and will finish my JD at Yale Law School in the Spring of 2027. Next year, I will be clerking for Chief Justice Rowan Wilson on the New York Court of Appeals, after which I hope to enter the law teaching market.