What is a Graduate Student?: Learning the Higher Ed Hidden Curriculum on the Fly feat. Tracy Buenavista
Send us Fan Mail In What is a Graduate Student: Learning the Higher Ed Hidden Curriculum on the Fly, LT and Sam welcome special guest Dr. Tracy Buenavista—professor of Asian American Studies at Cal St...
26 Sep 202557min
We Never Go Out of Style: Gen X Culture, Class, and the First-Gen Experience feat. Phuc Tran
Send us Fan Mail In Episode Four—aka The English Major Episode—LT and Sam welcome self-proclaimed “Honorary Smart Girl,” Phuc Tran, author of Sigh, Gone and Cranky, for a pop culture deep dive Gen X s...
12 Sep 20251h 31min
Being Black First Gen feat. George Turner
Send us Fan Mail What does it mean to be Black and first-gen? In this heartfelt and freewheeling episode, LT is joined by her former student—and now lifelong friend—Hon. George A. Turner, Jr. for a de...
29 Aug 20251h 7min
The Decision: Making Choices as a First Gen feat. Claire Brady
Send us Fan Mail In Episode Two, LT and Sam sit down with Dr. Claire Brady—President of Glass Half Full Consulting, former Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs, and proud first-gen grad—to flip the scri...
15 Aug 202557min
Black Ravenclaw: The Few, the First-to-Go, the “Gifted” Episode
Send us Fan Mail In the debut episode of the Smart Girl podcast, hosts La'Tonya “LT” Rease Miles—pioneering founder of first-gen college studies and tireless changemaker—and her best friend Sam Pinto,...
1 Aug 202541min
