I AM
AUTHOR. SCHOLAR-ACTIVIST. DIGITAL CREATOR. DREAMER.
About Me
A Brooklyn girl forever changing hearts and minds one story at a time.
A sociologist by training and scholar-activist for over two decades, Dr. Yndia Lorick-Wilmot’s projects for institutes, nonprofits and foundations in the U.S., Canada and the Caribbean focus on social issues impacting diverse Black racial-ethnic and immigrant communities. Dr. Lorick-Wilmot is an affiliated faculty member in the Africana Studies Program in the College of Social Sciences and Humanities and a senior lecturer in sociology at Northeastern University. She was also the inaugural Scholar-in-Residence at the University’s John D. O’Bryant African American Institute.
In addition, Dr. Lorick-Wilmot is the digital creator, host and producer for the podcast Belonging to Blackness, LLC (formerly Talking Journeys of Belonging 2 Blackness) with listeners in 80+ countries, which endeavors to amplify and center the positive experiences of African descendants globally. Her podcast has been nominated and winner of several podcast awards, including: the 2023 People’s Choice Podcast Awards “Black Culture” category; 2023 Black Podcasting Awards “Podcaster of the Year”; the 2024 Signal Awards for Best Show “Curators that Shape Culture” (Bronze Medal); and the recipient of Award Funding from Podcasting, Seriously.
Dr. Lorick-Wilmot publishes books, chapters, white papers and articles on Caribbean immigrants/Caribbean-Americans and Black diasporic identities. Her books include, Creating Black Caribbean Identity (2010), which won the Recommended Read by ACRL/Choice Magazine, and Stories of Identity Among Black Middle Class Second-Generation Caribbeans: We, Too, Sing America (2018). Dr. Lorick-Wilmot’s highly anticipated, third monograph on contemporary Black diasporic identities and biogeographic ancestry, Belonging to Blackness: The Complexities of Black Identity and DNA Testing is forthcoming in 2026 with University of North Carolina Press. She is also lead editor of a forthcoming anthology Tengo Sed: I am Thirsty, An Anthology of Works Celebrating Black Voice, Identity and Personhood with Dr. Natasha Gordon-Chipembere in 2026 with University of Illinois Press.
Award-winning Podcaster & Digital Creator
with recognitions from Black Podcasting Association’s for Podcaster of the Year (Finalist); Blubrry podcasting platform for Black History Month; features by Afros & Audio; Podcasting, Seriously Award Funding for BIPOC, Queer and Trans Audio Creators; and Signal Awards’ Best Show for Curators That Shape Culture (Bronze).
Activist & Philanthropist
Recognized by GetKonnected! PNCBank and NBC10 as one of Boston’s Most Impactful Black Women, across industries (philanthropy, business, media, education, medicine, sports, law and policy) for their works that improve the wellbeing of Boston’s communities. Also recognized by Embrace Boston with the Martin and Coretta Award, which honors and celebrates several living legends and exemplary civic, business, and community leaders in Boston. These individuals’ names will be memorialized alongside leaders in the 1965 Freedom Plaza, which surrounds the iconic Embrace statue in downtown Boston.
Fellowship Recipient
From American Sociological Association’s Honors Graduate Fellow Program & American Sociological Association/National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Minority Fellowship.
Sociologist & Scholar of Race and Gender
Whose work received the Gloria E. Anzaldúa Award from the American Studies Association’s Committee on Gender and Sexuality. The award honors feminist scholar Anzaldúa’s outstanding career as an independent scholar along with her groundbreaking contributions to scholarship on feminist, women of color and queer theory, and the award recipient’s engagement with Anzaldúa’s oeuvre, vision, and political commitments as evidenced in his/her/their activist writing tradition. Also recognized with the Women of Distinction in Race and Gender Equity Award by El Noticiero Popular Panemeno and the Institute for Pan American Affairs for research efforts that amplify Caribbean and immigrant communities.
Books
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This volume addresses how Black, middle class, second generation Caribbean immigrants recount compelling stories about their identity performances, including what it means to be Black in America, and the constraints they face as part of a larger transnational community. Lorick-Wilmot also introduces her new theoretical framework, Triple Identity Consciousness.
