Rhonda Collier is a Professor of English at Tuskegee University, where she also serves as the Director of the TU Global Office. She is a Fulbright Scholar, who studied at the Universidad de São Paulo in Brazil. Besides her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, she holds a B.S. and a Master’s degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and Georgia Tech respectively. She has published in the areas of Afro-Brazilian, Afro-Cuban, African-American, and global hip hop studies. At Tuskegee University, she focuses on American literature, Black American literature, and composition courses with an emphasis on service-learning. Her work “Mothering Cuba: The Poetics of Afro-Cuban Women” appears in Another Black Like Me: The Construction of Identities and Solidarity in the African Diaspora (Cambridge Scholar Press, 2015). She recently published on Afro-German hip hop in the College Language Association Journal. She discusses art as a space of forgiveness and reconciliation. She is passionate about education abroad and cross-cultural student engagement.