Yndia S. Lorick-Wilmot, PhD is a public scholar, researcher and storyteller whose work is viewed as scholar-activism. Among her family and friends, she is a Brooklyn girl forever changing the hearts and minds of people one story at a time.
A sociologist by training, Dr. Lorick-Wilmot is a researcher for institutes, nonprofits and foundations in the U.S., Canada and the Caribbean, where her publications and research projects focus on social issues impacting diverse racial-ethnic and immigrant communities across the Americas. An educator for over 20 years, 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 for the podcast Talking Journeys of Belonging 2 Blackness with listeners in 71+ countries, which endeavors to amplify and center the positive experiences of African descendants globally. Her podcast was nominated for two podcast awards: the 2023 People’s Choice Podcast Awards “Black Culture” category and the 2023 Black Podcasting Awards “Podcaster of the Year.”
Dr. Lorick-Wilmot publishes books, white papers and articles on Caribbean immigrants/Caribbean-Americans and Black diasporic identities. Her books include: Creating Black Caribbean Ethnic 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). She is 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 (2025). Dr. Lorick-Wilmot is also working on a third monograph based on contemporary Black diasporic identities and biogeographic ancestry, anticipated in 2026.
Over the years, Dr. Lorick-Wilmot has served on numerous nonprofit boards, including the Disabled Persons Protection Commission (DPPC) by gubernatorial appointment. Currently, she is a member of the Education Committee of the Boston Ballet’s Board of Advisors, member of the Nominating and Governance and Investment Strategy Committees of Boston Arts Academy Foundation Board, and the inaugural co-chair and member of the Marjorie Butcher Circle at her alma mater Trinity College.
Awards
Dr. Yndia Lorick-Wilmot is the 2020-2021 Gloria E. Anzaldúa Award winner from the American Studies Association’s Committee on Gender and Sexuality, which honors 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.
She is also the past recipient of several fellowships, honors and recognitions including from the American Sociological Association and the National Institute of Mental Health, the “Women of Distinction in Race and Gender Equity” from El Noticiero Popular Panemeno and the Institute of Pan American Affairs, and Get Konnected! “Boston’s Most Impactful Black Women,” to name a few.