Chazman McKoy

Chazman D. McKoy is a scholar, educator and practitioner whose work centers on lived experiences in pedagogical contexts with particular attention to visibility, agency and the communicative performances of self-definition within higher education. She holds a BS in psychology from the University of Kentucky, an MA in student affairs from Western Kentucky University and a PhD in communication from the University of South Florida. 

At Tulane University, Dr. McKoy serves as the Director of Retention and Student Success within Newcomb-Tulane College, where she leads institutional efforts to support undergraduate persistence and degree completion. Her work focuses on translating data into coordinated, student-facing strategies, including early intervention systems, cross-campus partnerships and initiatives that align academic support with the broader student experience. Across her work in higher education, she advances approaches that take seriously how students navigate institutions with particular attention to those whose experiences are routinely decentered or pushed to the margins within academic spaces. 

Her work intentionally carves out a creative intellectual space through deliberate citational practices and the deployment of democratized representational forms. She is committed to creating intergenerational, international, interethnic and intersectional dialogue among intellectuals, including those credentialed within the academy and those whose knowledge is rooted in the flat-footed, ancestrally-rooted wisdom that informs our ways of knowing and being, including her own Kentuckian epistemological becoming.