Janet Stickmon was named 2023's Distinguished Professor by her university.  She takes great pride in working with her students.  She has created CenterJoyPWR®: Strategies for Healing Racial Battle Fatigue—an online experience for professionals of color who want to center joy in their lives. But before this Janet was a Catholic school educator with a strong desire to teach ethnic studies in a space with no interest in seeing their students understand the humanity of themselves and others.  Listen as Janet shares her story along with fantastic strategies that school districts and universities should implement to retain Black educators.