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Dr. Ivory A. Toldson, a renowned research scholar, is a professor of counseling psychology at Howard University and editor-in-chief of The Journal of Negro Education. Dr. Toldson has authored over 100 scholarly works, including the Brill bestseller, “No BS (Bad Stats): Black People Need People Who Believe in Black People Enough Not to Believe Every Bad Thing They Hear about Black People.” Dr. Toldson was ranked one of the nation’s top education scholars by Education Week and is the national director of Education Innovation and Research for the NAACP. He also served as president of the QEM Network, leading efforts to expand STEM education and HBCUs success. He was appointed by President Barack Obama as executive director of the White House Initiative on HBCUs. A prolific scholar, he has delivered more than 200 research presentations across the United States and in Canada, the Dominican Republic, Scotland, South Africa, France, and Spain.