In this episode of the Black-Liberation.Tech Podcast, Dr. Renee Jordan continues our journey through Lesson D2.1: Embracing Digital Literacies. This week, we explore two essential skills for thriving in today’s digital world—promotion and publicizing—and what they look like through a liberation-centered lens.

Together, we examine reflection prompts designed to help learners and their mothers/guardians think deeply about how they show up online:

How do you promote yourself, your work, or your vision?

How do you amplify causes, events, and community initiatives?

What are the opportunities—and what are the risks?

Dr. Jordan also shares a guided online search featuring powerful examples of Latinas, Afro-Latinas, and Black women who are reshaping business, marketing, PR, and digital communication. Listeners will learn how women such as Mabel & Shaira Frias (Luna Magic), Lala Inuti Ahari, LaToya Shambo (Black Girl Digital), Brittany Chavez (Shop Latinx), Janel Martinez (Ain’t I Latina?), Zakiya Larry, and others use authentic storytelling, community building, culturally centered strategies, and cross-platform amplification to promote and publicize with impact.

This episode invites listeners to reflect, write, and reimagine how they can use digital tools ethically—and powerfully—to share their gifts, strengthen their voice, and build opportunities rooted in purpose and cultural pride.

Episode Highlights

• Reflection questions to help learners understand their current online habits and future digital goals.
• Real-world examples of Black and Afro-Latina entrepreneurs, creators, PR strategists, and marketers who promote and publicize effectively.
• How authentic storytelling becomes a radical act of representation.
• Why community-driven marketing outperforms generic promotion.
• Digital safety reminders: verifying before trusting, protecting personal information, and keeping identity-centered boundaries.
• How daughters and mothers can use these skills to build projects, portfolios, and powerful pathways together.

In this episode of Black-Liberation.Tech, Dr. Renee Jordan continues the Digital Literacies lesson series by focusing on one essential skill: Connection. Building on a live session originally shared on social media, Dr. Jordan reflects on how she connects with colleagues, scholars, and collaborators across digital platforms — and how those connections have opened real doors for research, workshops, academic collaborations, and professional growth.

Drawing from personal examples, including reaching out to colleagues on LinkedIn after conferences, strengthening relationships through digital follow-up, and navigating collaborative opportunities that emerged unexpectedly, Dr. Jordan illustrates how intentional connection functions as both a digital literacy and a long-term professional strategy.

She also discusses the challenges of networking digitally — from remembering where you met someone, to creating sustainable follow-up systems, to filtering out bots and maintaining safe boundaries. Finally, Dr. Jordan highlights examples of Latinas, Afro-Latinas, and Black women in tech whose digital presence and community-building practices offer powerful models of how to nurture networks with impact, authenticity, and care.

Listeners are encouraged to choose a digital literacy for their own project, reflect on how they connect with others online, and consider how digital tools can support their personal, academic, and professional journeys.

Episode Highlights

• A deep dive into the digital literacy Connect and why it matters.
• Personal examples of meaningful digital networking that led to:
  • a successful workshop proposal,
  • collaboration across institutions,
  • extended partnerships and paid opportunities.
• Practical strategies for remembering where and how you met people online.
• Discussions on expanding your network through:
  • livestreaming,
  • LinkedIn,
  • conferences,
  • academic spaces,
  • and careful vetting of followers to avoid bots.
• A reminder about digital safety: Never share personal identifiable information with generative AI or strangers online.
• A guided example search featuring Latinas, Afro-Latinas, and Black women leaders in tech whose online networks thrive because of:
  • authentic storytelling,
  • safe digital community-building,
  • targeted engagement,
  • mentorship and sponsorship,
  • platform diversity,
  • and sharing resources generously.
• An invitation for listeners to reflect and choose a digital literacy for their upcoming personal, academic, or professional project.

Reflective Questions for Listeners

1. How do you currently connect with others online, whether professionally or socially? What platforms feel most natural to you — and why?
2. Think back to a time when an online connection opened a door for you. What made that connection meaningful or effective?
3. What challenges do you experience when trying to build or maintain digital connections? How can you create systems that help you follow up intentionally?
4. Which digital tools (LinkedIn, livestreaming, messaging apps, academic platforms) could help you expand your network in a way that aligns with your goals?
5. Looking at the example women highlighted in this lesson, what practices do you want to adopt or adapt for your own digital presence?

In this story-time episode of Black-Liberation.Tech, Dr. Renée Jordan invites listeners into the media center to listen in on four interconnected stories from the Embracing Digital Literacies lesson.

Through the voices of Tia, Nadine, Ebony, Nicole, Jazmin, Sharlene, Dominique, and Jaleesa, we explore what digital literacies look like in real life for Latinas, Afro-Latinas, and Black women and girls—from asking better questions to streaming your work in public.

At the end of the episode, Dr. Jordan invites you to choose your own project focus—personal, academic, or professional—and shares her plan to work on a professional project to promote Black-Liberation.Tech and Jordan Nuance LLC.

This episode is a gentle but powerful reminder: digital literacies are not just for middle schoolers. They are life-long practices for all ages and stages.

Episode Highlights

• A circle of girls, mothers, and tech professionals gathers in a media center to explore digital literacies as everyday skills—not just buzzwords.
• In Embracing Digital Literacies, the focus is on asking questions and communicating with confidence—online and offline.
• In Digital Literacies in Action, listeners hear concrete examples of connecting, DM’ing, dividing tasks, and justifying decisions in digital spaces.
• In The Digital Literacies Journey, the conversation expands to interaction, promotion, publicizing, and streaming as ways to build community and visibility.
• In Digital Literacies Workshop, teaching and taking digital notes become central practices for sharing knowledge and tracking growth.
• Dr. Jordan closes by inviting listeners to choose a project focus—personal, academic, or professional—and models that choice by naming her own: a professional project to promote Black-Liberation.Tech and Jordan Nuance LLC.

Reflective Questions for Listeners

1. Which character or moment in the stories sounded the most like you right now? Was it asking questions, DM’ing, teaching, streaming, or something else?
2. When you think about your own digital life, which literacy feels strongest—asking/communicating, connecting/collaborating, promoting/publicizing, or teaching/taking notes? Which one would you like to grow next?
3. If you chose a personal, academic, or professional project today, what would it be? How could digital literacies help you move that project forward?
4. Where in your current routines are you already practicing digital literacies without naming them? (For example: group chats, reposting opportunities, live-streaming, or documenting your process.)
5. Who are the women in your life—family, community, or online—who model healthy, liberating digital practices? What have you learned from watching them?
6. After hearing these stories, what’s one concrete action you can take this week to move your project from idea to reality?