Dr. Danielle Hodge
Dr. Danielle Hodge is an Assistant Professor of Communication at Boulder, where she specializes in African American Studies, critical race theory, and critical hip hop studies. As an award-winning scholar-teacher, Dr. Hodge's work is a profound exploration of how racism and its intersecting oppressions are embedded in our everyday talk, communicative practices, institutions, and overall society.
Dr. Hodge is a 2024-2025 Center for African and African American Studies (CAAAS) Faculty Fellow and a 2024-2025 Andrew W. Mellon Civic Engagement and Voting Rights Teacher Scholar. In 2023, she was named the Inaugural Lecture Series Speaker for The Center for African and African American Studies.
In 2021, Dr. Hodge delivered a Juneteenth Keynote titled "Liberatory Love and Freedom: Radical Reenvisionings” for the University of Colorado Four-Campus System. This year’s address builds on that foundation and introduces humanizing imagination as a transformative approach to shared equity leadership. Dr. Hodge presents humanizing imagination as a framework that merges humanizing equity with radical imagination, offering sociopolitical possibilities for achieving equity.