Dr. Okello's research examines Blackness in knowledge production and identity development, exposing anti-Blackness in educational research and theorizing that positions Black students from a place of damage and brokenness. He values the voices of Black students in a corollary aim to rewrite curriculum in Higher Education to account for the fullness of Black existence. He fundamentally believes that theory directs pedagogy and practice, and thus, he emphasizes a critique of student/early adult development theory believing that to critically approach development theory will equip educators and practitioners with equity-minded tools to construct curriculum, policy, and practice. Taken together, his work intervenes on structural inequities by imbuing scholarship, teaching, and service with critical perspectives. Dr. Okello is currently working on a book manuscript that works to center Blackness in student/early adult development theory, in progress with SUNY Press.