The Booce Teaches Podcast
The Booce Teaches Podcast is an interview podcast hosted by Dr. Tanya Boucicaut. This second season focuses on life-changing conversations from Tanya’s perspective as an educator and artist with her forever students (former students) who range in all career fields. The host and guests talk about their journeys as students, their mentors, and so much more. Tanya and her guests talk about their educational and life journeys, culture, and music with quite a bit of laughter and gratitude. Following the Hip Hop tradition, most episode ends with the host’s and guest’s Top Five lists.
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Jan 29, 2025
Jan 29, 2025
40 min
This episode concludes this almost four-year journey to recording and editing the first season of the Booce Teaches Podcast. We end this season with wonder. Kait Boss, current development consultant, content strategist, and creative producer, shares her journey to the role at the time of timing in 2021 as the Director of Children’s Television. She shares her early love for English and the arts as a student. Kait recounts the poignant advice that her poetry professor offered artists after the tragedies of 9/11 and how artistry helps with sense-making during the most difficult times in human history. Through joy and wonder, Kait provides insight into how the skills she gained in school learning about video and audio editing would serve her well in her journey as an entertainment executive. As always, the conversation concludes with the Top Five with an on-brand twist—movie scores!
Oct 8, 2025
Oct 8, 2025
47 min
Season 2 opens with podcast host, one of Dr. Tanya Boucicaut's forever students, Tyshaun Brewer, a college senior, who shares how Norfolk State shaped his voice and why civic engagement, social justice, and community. Tanya and Tyshaun revisit his experience in the Courage Summer Program (youth summer theater program) and explore how mentorship and artistic expression shaped Tyshaun’s path from performance to social work and civic activism. He discusses leading on campus, organizing in the community, speaking at forums, and choosing social work so that he can serve communities while advocating for policies that support them. We sit with mentorship, purpose, and the power of the HBCU family. This conversation feels like home and a call to keep showing up for each other.
*Note: Still learning about recording and editing.
May 26, 2026
May 26, 2026
54 min
Season 2 continues with another of Dr. Tanya Boucicaut’s forever students, Nylan Ntabazi, a clinical researcher, scientist, and newly minted entrepreneur who offers insight into the ways science and creativity impact her life and the lives of others. She shares her leadership journey from high school to her current career as a brand ambassador, while also giving us a window into why community and mentorship have been such critical foundations to her success. This conversation feels like joy and liberation.