Check out my latest publications, presentations and television/podcast features
Publications
Atkins, Asheli S. 2023. “Exit Plan: How Racialized and Gendered Organizations Lead Black Women to Entrepreneurship.” Urban Institute.
Atkins, Asheli S. 2021. “Is Gentrification a Detriment to Predominately Black and Latinx Communities: Affirmative.” In Contemporary Debates in Social Justice: An Interdisciplinary Approach. Eds Farrah G. Cambrice and Marco Robinson. Kendall Hunt Publishing.
Atkins, Asheli S. “Black Restaurant Week is a Platform that is Shining Light on Your Soon-To-Be Favorite Black Eateries.” Blavity.
Article Features
Beyond slogans: A path forward for Houston’s Black business community. Houston Chronicle.
Meet Asheli Atkins of Houston Black-Owned Businesses. Voyage Houston
Television
Feed the Soul Foundation & Gumbo Social. The Kelly Clarkson Show.
Cultural Importance of Black Panther. Fox 26 Houston.
Podcast Features
Episode 14. Women Acquiring Assets.
Episode 89. Startup Masters.
Young, Black, & Ambitious. Soulfilling Podcast.
About Her Black Businesses. Blk In Grad School.
In the Pursuit of Higher Education. Networking with Michelle.
Academic Conference Presentations
Southern Sociological Society . “The Unbearable Lightness of Teaching: Navigating Course Prep, Personal Research, and Student Support as Graduate Students & Women of Color.” Jacksonville, FL 2020
Southern Sociological Society. “Black-Ownership Identity: Altering the Public’s Knowledge Through the Construction of Organizational Strategies.” Atlanta, GA 2019
Annual Black Doctoral Network Conference. “Black-Owned: Organizational Strategies for Current Black Entrepreneurs.” Charlotte, NC 2018
Texas A&M University Sociology Colloquium. “African American Entrepreneurs & Organizational Strategies.” 2017
Public Presentations
Panelist, Aroma National Culinary Conference, Black Restaurant Weeks, LLC. Virtual (October) 2020
Speaker, National Association of Real Estate Brokers, The Sociology of Homeownership. Virtual (April) 2020
Speaker, National Association of Black Accountants & Emancipation Park Conservancy, Bridge the Gap Webinar. Virtual (April) 2020
Presenter, Greater Houston Black Chamber, 85th Annual Meeting & 3rd Edition of Buy Black Kickoff. Houston, TX (January) 2020
Speaker, Women’s Inflection Point, It’s Me Time Conference. Las Vegas (November) 2019
Speaker, Emerging 100 Houston, Youth Entrepreneurship Symposium: Generational Hustle. Houston, TX (May) 2019
Speaker, Women’s Inflection Point, It’s Me Time Conference. Houston, TX (April) 2019
Speaker, Dallas Fort Worth Urban League of Young Professionals, Leadership & Development Conference. “Self-Actualization & Entrepreneurship”. Dallas, TX (March) 2019
Keynote Speaker, Dallas Fort Worth Urban League of Young Professionals, 2019 Leadership & Development Conference Kickoff. “Strategies for Black-Owned Businesses.” Dallas, TX (February) 2019
Speaker, Cubicles to Cocktails, Money Talks: Black Women’s Equal Pay Day Seminar. Houston, TX (August) 2018
Keynote Speaker, Texas A&M Mosaic Flowers: Student Organization. Annual End of Year Program “Brutally Soft: Black Women in PWI.” College Station, TX (May) 2018
Speaker, Lone Star Community College, Black Student Union. “African American Entrepreneurship & Buying Black Seminar.” Cypress, TX (February) 2017
Panelist, The Collective Generational Mentoring Foundation. Annual Conference. “Mentoring Master Class Panel.” Houston, TX (July) 2016
Dr. Asheli S. Atkins 