Biography

Dr. View is a DJ, producer, educator and community organizer from Longview, TX that now resides Tulsa, OK, aka the home of Black Wall Street. With close to ten years of college student development experience, Dr. View received his PhD in Higher Education Administration from the University of Oklahoma, in May of 2019. His written Hip-Hop & album dissertation, entitled Curriculum of the Mind: A BlackCrit, Narrative Inquiry Hip-Hop Album on Anti-Blackness & Freedom for Black Male Collegians at historically white institutions, received the 2019 Bobby Wright Dissertation of the Year Award for the Association for the Study of Higher Education. Dr. View is the CEO of The Space Program (TSP), an independent record label hub and Hip-Hop collective; CEO of (IN)VISIBLE records and Executive Producer of Fire in Little Africa, which is a multimedia Hip-Hop Project commemorating Tulsa’s Historic Greenwood District known as Black Wall Street.