Adrian T. Parker, Jr., Ph.D. (he/him) serves as the Senior Manager for Hope, Healing, & Heritage in the Trotter Multicultural Center at the University of Michigan. In this role, Dr. Parker is responsible for overseeing programming offered in the space and cultivating the center’s learning agenda. His research is rooted in the Black radical educational imagination and centers possibility; antiblackness; racial reconciliation initiatives; healing-centered higher education and student development; and organizational transformation. He previously served as the Special Assistant to the Stained Glass Initiative (SGI), a racial reconciliation initiative started by the university to address historical connections to slavery at Xavier University. He received his Ph.D. and M.Ed. in Educational Leadership and Transformative Education, respectively, from Miami (OH) University; and a Hon.B.A. in Philosophy, Politics, and the Public with a minor on Theology from Xavier University.