Angela understands BCSE work not only as a necessary response to the persistent failures of state schooling to provide equitable outcomes, representation, and care for Black youth, and to be a site for Black collective imagination and liberation. She views her work as empowering the Black community by offering Afrocentric education that fosters a sense of belonging, collective identity, and pride.

She says that the deeper meaning of BCSE work is building a “collective mindset” oriented toward intergenerational care and community self-determination. Ultimately, Angela reads BCSE work as a “both/and” project pressing for institutional change from within school boards and universities while simultaneously building autonomous, community-rooted educational infrastructures that can outlast state cycles of clawbacks, and political reversal.