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By Sherita Love
The podcast currently has 9 episodes available.
During this ExpandEd Conversations episode, we hear from Jessica Jones, a non-binary educator and activist specializing in contemporary literacies and LGBTQ+ justice. They have served as an educator in various capacities for ten years, with most of their career spent as a high school Language Arts teacher. Early in their teaching career, Jessica observed the numerous barriers that queer and transgender students face within our education system and was inspired to challenge these inequities through both student advocacy.and youth empowerment. It is Jessica’s strongly held belief that our work toward a socially just education system must include unconditional support and inclusion of our LGBTQ+ youth.
Leah Burnett is an avid food justice pioneer in St. Louis. Join the conversation to learn more about the intersections of food justice and education.
This episode of the ExpandED Conversations Podcast features José Luis Vilson is a full-time math teacher, writer, speaker, and activist in New York City, NY. He is the author of This Is Not A Test: A New Narrative on Race, Class, and Education, and has spoken about education, math, and race for a number of organizations and publications, including The New York Times, Education Week, The Guardian, Al Jazeera America, Huffington Post, Edutopia, GOOD, and El Diario / La Prensa, NY. He is the founder of EduColor, a Math for America Master Teacher and a National Board Certified teacher.
He is also the executive director of EduColor, an organization dedicated to education and social justice.
In this ExpandED Conversations episode, we sit down with Dr. Sarah Hobson and two of her students. During our time together we learn more about the real world research being done by Community Allies to both educate, elevate and improve the St. Louis community.
Make sure to visit Community Allies website for more information: http://www.communityalliesconsulting.com
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Kristy Jackson shares her journey to co-founding GLAMM-Girls Lead and Make Moves her views on the education landscape as well as advice for the community to create equity in education for all.
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The podcast currently has 9 episodes available.