Yndia Lorick-Wilmot, PhD: Author, Scholar-Activist & Digital Creator
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 2025. 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.
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, Get Konnected! “Boston’s Most Impactful Black Women,” and Embrace Boston’s “Martin and Coretta Award” to name a few.
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