Geleana Drew Alston North Carolina A&T State University, USA

Geleana Drew Alston is an emerging scholar whose work focuses on the sociocultural intricacies of women, minorities, and disenfranchised groups as adult learners. Specifically, her research interests include (1) history of African Americans in adult education, (2) mentoring and advising graduate adult learners, and (3) critical ethnogerontology.

She earned her doctorate in Adult, Professional, and Community Education at Texas State University, a MS in Adult Education at North Carolina A&T State University, and BS in Clinical Laboratory Science at East Carolina University. Currently, she is an assistant professor and coordinator in the MS in Adult Education program in the Department of Leadership Studies and Adult Education at North Carolina A&T State University. She is an active member within the American Association for Adult and Continuing Education, the Commission of Professors or Adult Education, and the Adult Higher Education Alliance.

Geleana formerly served as the editorial assistant and the inaugural social media coordinator for Adult Education Quarterly and the assistant to the co-editor in chief for New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education. Her journal articles on mentoring and qualitative research have appeared in the textbook Qualitative Research: A Guide to Design and Implementation (4^th ed.) and in journals such as Learning, Media, and Technology, Journal of African American Males in Education, Studies in the Education of Adults, Adult Education Quarterly, and Adult Learning.