Ms. Dortch holds a bachelors degree in Political Science and International Relations with a concentration on Africa and the Middle East from the University of Memphis. She also earned her Master of Arts in Liberal Studies/Women's Studies with a focus on Global Women of Color.  This course of study took her to West Africa where she spent a summer studying at the University of Ghana- Legon campus. She completed a Graduate Certificate in Women's Studies at Texas Woman's University centering her studies on Womanist/Feminist Pedagogies and Transformative Education. She is currently completing research on African Immigrants' experiences in the United States as a part of her dissertation requirements for her doctorate in Sociology from the University of North Texas. 

Giovanni has presented her research and academic work throughout the United States in academic, social and community activist capacities.
She has moderated and hosted panels, completed film talks, participated in round-tables and provided presentations on various socially relevant topics, including delivering the annual address for the University of North Texas Chapter Alpha Phi Alpha Incorporated's State of the Black Union, Stonewall TIGERS Religion and Sexuality Panel and the Texas Woman's University's Graduate Department of Women's Studies' Panel entitled the History, Politics and Culture of Natural Hair.  As part of her engagement in the Digital Humanities, she maintains a digital space for archiving  Womanist/Feminist Pedagogical practices, and to provide  education as a tool of Social Justice. She has appeared on the Pastor and Professor YouTube Show and participated in For Harriet's Roundtable on Hip Hop and Sexuality.

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