Professor and entrepreneur, Dr. Chinasa Elue, shares her online presence journey as an academic. From podcasting to the TEDx stage, Chinasa has become more intentional about sharing her story and her research online, encouraging faculty to keep showing up.
Dr. Chinasa Elue is back on The Social Academic Podcast. Professor, host of the Grieving In Color Podcast, TEDx speaker. Chinasa is someone I’ve been cheering on since we met in 2021. Her online presence has become even more intentional in a beautiful way that invites connection. What’s your purpose, your reason for your online presence?
Being intentional about how you show up online as an academic isn’t about self-promotion. It’s about connection and possibility. This episode is on Connection and Purpose for Your Academic Online Presence.
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Quotes
“Just get started. Don’t be nervous. It’s normal. Nerves are normal. When people ask me now like, ‘How did you do it?’ I’m like, ‘I just kept showing up.’ I showed up when I didn’t feel like it. I showed up when I didn’t think I had anything to say.”
“I lean into the thought leadership of it all, recognizing that I have actually a research backed opinion to share and I need to put it out there and it’s okay to get some slack. It’s par for the course, but you will survive and you will show up again and keep it moving. So just start.”
“I have grown so much in a lot of ways. The nerves have shifted. I’m still nervous showing up, right? But one thing that I’ve started to lean into a lot more in this season is my story: owning my story, owning my voice.”
—Dr. Chinasa Elue
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Bio for Chinasa Elue
Dr. Chinasa Elue is an award-winning professor, TEDx speaker, grief coach, and CEO & Founder of True Titans Consulting Group. Her work centers on creating spaces for authentic conversations about grief to foster more holistic and compassionate support in our communities. She also is the host of the Grieving in Color Podcast, where she explores the many ways grief shapes our daily lives. In her academic role, Dr. Elue serves as a Professor of Educational Leadership and Higher Education at Kennesaw State University. Her research focuses on grief leadership, trauma-informed leadership practices in organizational settings, and the well-being of historically marginalized and underrepresented populations. Dr. Elue’s expertise has been featured in USA Today, Better Homes and Gardens, the Journal of Higher Education, the Journal of Negro Education, the Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, and other outlets. In addition to her scholarship and coaching, she serves on the advisory board of Students Without Mothers, a non-profit that empowers high school students without mothers to pursue higher education.
She resides in Atlanta, GA, with her family, where she continues to weave together her passions for research, coaching, and advocacy to create spaces of healing and transformation.
Our past interview on The Social Academic
