Chloe Leavings

Bio

Chloe Leavings is a Detroit native and two-time HBCU graduate, holding a B.A. in English from Alabama A&M University and an M.A. in English and African American Literature from North Carolina A&T State University. She is currently a Ph.D. Candidate in the Rhetoric and Writing Studies program at Wayne State University, where she is a Dean’s Diversity Fellow. Additionally, she is an adjunct professor at University of Detroit Mercy, Wayne County Community College,  and Macomb Community College. Chloe’s research draws from Black Feminism, the Rhetoric of Health and Medicine, Culturally Relevant Pedagogy, Black Technical and Professional Communication, and Hip Hop Based Education. Her scholarship is committed to amplifying Black voices and dismantling systems of exclusion in academic and medical spaces. In 2024, she was awarded the Scholars for the Dream Award by the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) for her work on decolonizing composition studies through Hip Hop Based Education—a project now published through Duke University. Chloe’s work challenges traditional frameworks and centers the cultural knowledge of Black communities in both pedagogy and practice