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Erika B - 👸🏽 of Financial Literacy

@brownerika.bsky.social
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Co-host of Broke-ish™ Podcast @broke-ish.bsky.social 🎤 | PhD Candidate in Sociology 🤓 | #BlackinTech 👩🏾‍💻| Lover of travel ✈️☀️| Financial literacy won’t save us 🛟

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Kevin Banda @kevinkbanda.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
It's unclear to me how one can teach any social science in Texas under these conditions.
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Erika B - 👸🏽 of Financial Literacy @brownerika.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
It's official! 🎉📷I am thrilled to announce the publication of my first academic article! In it, my co-author, @kendallriley.bsky.social, & I look at how race disrupts the relationship between financial literacy & health precarity. Check it out on Sociology Compass: t.co/tQednopmoN
Article: When (Financial) Knowledge Isn't Power: How Race Disrupts Financial Literacy's Relationship to Health Precarity
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Read More bell hooks @walaal.blacksky.app · 09/05/2025
don't fall for this black capitalist propaganda, instead read: "False Prophets of Profit: Celebrity financial advice often overlooks systemic barriers that impact Black communities." by @brownerika.bsky.social yesmagazine.org/issue/truth/...
headline of an article which reads:

False Prophets of Profit 

Celebrity financial advice often overlooks systemic barriers that impact Black communities
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Erika B - 👸🏽 of Financial Literacy @brownerika.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
@calscherm.bsky.social I’m excited I finally got my copy! 📚
Book: The Plunder of Black America by Calvin Schermerhorn
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Erika B - 👸🏽 of Financial Literacy @brownerika.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Are you 18+ and Black/African American? Have you have attended a financial literacy/class or consumed financial education content online or in person? If so, I would love to talk to you for my dissertation research. Sign up at brokeish.com/research. See flyer below for details. #financialliteracy
Are you 18+? Do you identify as Black/African American? Have you have attended a financial literacy/education class or consumed financial literacy/education content online or in person? If so, I would love to talk to you for my dissertation research. 
Next Steps:
1. Visit the link to read and sign the consent form, if you agree to its terms. 
2. Sign up for a time for the Zoom interview of approximately 75 minutes. 
3. Receive a $25 amazon.com gift card at the conclusion of the interview. 

Participation in this study is voluntary. There is a potential risk of loss of confidentiality in all email, downloading, electronic meetings, and internet transactions. 

This research is being conducted by Erika Brown, a PhD candidate at Texas Woman’s University
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@charleshb@mastodon.sdf.org @charleshb.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Broke-ish® with( @broke-ish.bsky.social )Erika & Amber Podcast "Myth Buster #3: Banks Don’t Care What Color You Are" Erika( @brownerika.bsky.social )Brown, Amber W. Sims, Dr. Justene Hill-Edwards, Black Liberation Media www.youtube.com/watch?v=sv86...
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Myth Buster #3: Banks Don’t Care What Color You Are
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Broke-ish™ Podcast (Hosted by @brownerika & Amber) @broke-ish.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
For our 1st post we are sharing our episode with John Hope Bryant where he annoyed us w/ the worst financial literacy myths dipped in anti-Blackness. The misogyny & condescension where at all-time highs. Tap in & tell us what you think. #financialliteracy #financialeducation youtu.be/3sJ0EB4JO98?...
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Financial Literacy Myths: The Greatest Hits
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Broke-ish™ Podcast (Hosted by @brownerika & Amber) @broke-ish.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
We brought in @imixwhatilike.bsky.social as the antidote to our episode with John Hope Bryant. Here we fight back against the idea that financial literacy is the civil rights issue of this generation. Tap and in! youtu.be/aln7V6zN0pw?... #financialliteracy #financialeducation #payday
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Myth Buster #1: Financial Literacy is the Civil Rights Issue of this Generation
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@charleshb@mastodon.sdf.org @charleshb.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Broke-ish w/ Erika( @brownerika.bsky.social )Brown & Amber Sims "Myth Buster #1: Financial Literacy is the Civil Rights Issue of this Generation" Jared( @imixwhatilike.bsky.social )Ball www.youtube.com/watch?v=aln7...
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Myth Buster #1: Financial Literacy is the Civil Rights Issue of this Generation
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