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At the 2018 NASPA Conference, Angela Hoffman-Cooper was selected to speak about her experience going From Foster Care to College: Finding a Family on Campus in SA Speaks, a TED Talk style presentation. She shares recommendations for how higher education and student affairs practitioners can improve support for students with experience in foster care and closes with a poem she wrote on the complexities of foster care experience.
College students with experiences in the foster care system are often not central to institutionalized support within student affairs and higher education. In this Student Affairs NOW podcast, Dra. Susana Muñoz meets with Angela Hoffman-Cooper, Dr. Royel Johnson, and Kenyon Lee Whitman about ways higher education and student affairs can better support college students with foster care experiences.
December 2024
In this article, in the Colorado State University Source, Dr. Hoffman-Cooper reflects on her time in the Higher Education Leadership doctoral program centering and humanizing the experiences of people with experience in foster care in higher education and shares the challenges and generational restoration she didn’t foresee.
December 2020
In this article, in the Colorado State University Source, Angela reflects on meeting Kimberlé Crenshaw, a leading scholar of critical race theory who coined the critical concept of intersectionality – a concept that factors heavily in Hoffman-Cooper’s scholarship supporting students with experience in foster care.
June 2020
In this blog post written for ACPA — College Student Educators International, Angela reflects on the history of Juneteenth and what the day means to her. "For me, Juneteenth is a day to reflect on our nation's history, a day to celebrate Black lives, a day to acknowledge, remember, learn, and take action - just as we have a responsibility to do everyday."