The Awakening Educator

Nearly half of US children have experienced serious trauma. With such an overwhelming number of children facing trauma, it can be easy for educators to lose hope or burn out. They can face "vicarious trauma," more commonly known as compassion fatigue—the cumulative, detrimental effect of working with survivors of traumatic life events. In this episode, we speak with Jacquelyn Ollison about Compassion Fatigue and what we must do to support our educators.

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Join the Awakening Educator as we interview, Bruce Perry, M.D., Ph.D., who was recently featured on CBS's 60 Minutes with Oprah Winfrey, and who is a neuroscientist and child psychiatrist, principal member of the theNeurosequential Model Network and the Senior Fellow
at the Child Trauma Academy in Houston, Texas. He is also the author of the best-selling book, The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook and his recent collaboration with Oprah Winfrey: What Happened to You?

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Join the Awakening Educator as we interview Jennifer LeBarre, Executive Director of Student Nutrition Services in San Francisco Unified School District. Jennifer will talk with us about the often unnoticed but vital role that nutrition services play in our schools.

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Join the Awakening Educator as we interview Eric Barenfeld, founder of Groovy Heirlooms and a designated global educator in the upcoming 2020 Children’s Festival in DC. Eric’s mission is creating youth think-tanks and teaching practical and sustainable urban farming practices.

Join the Awakening Educator as we interview Delaine Eastin, former State Superintendent of Public Instruction in California. Amongst Delaine’s many accomplishments, she was the forerunner of introducing gardens and fresh foods to schools. In this show, we’ll talk with Delaine about the Gardens in Every School Initiative and why she remains a fierce advocate of school gardens almost 25 years since that initiative was passed.

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Join the Awakening Educator as we interview Lauren Markam, New York times best-selling author of The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life. Lauren is also the Community Schools Manager at Oakland International Highschool, an Oakland Public School serving newcomer students from around the world.

Lauren Markham is a writer and reporter based in Berkeley, California, and the author of The Far Away Brothers, a chronicle of unaccompanied minor migrants from El Salvador to the United States. Drawing on her expertise, Markham speaks about global refugee issues, Central American child migration in the U.S., environmental issues, and urban education and education policy.

Having spent over a decade working with refugees and immigrants in nonprofits and schools, Lauren began reporting on unaccompanied minors from Central America in 2013. She continued reporting on this issue while supporting access to legal counsel, social services support, and mental healthcare for an influx of hundreds of unaccompanied minors at the school where she was working in Oakland, California, many of whom were fleeing the region’s brutal violence. She began working on The Far Away Brothers to examine the root causes of this mass youth migration—to understand why all of these children were suddenly, alone and under extremely dangerous conditions, making their way from Central America to the United States. In 2019, she published a version of The Far Away Brothersadapted for young adults.

An expert in migration, an educator, and an accomplished journalist, Lauren’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in outlets such as The Guardian, Harper’s, Orion, Guernica, VICE, Pacific Standard, The New Yorker.com and VQR, where she is a contributing editor.

She is a graduate of the Vermont College of Fine Arts’ MFA in writing program and has been awarded fellowships from the Mesa Refuge, the UC Berkeley 11th Hour Food & Farming Journalism Fellowship, The French American Foundation, The Rotary Foundation, and the Middlebury Fellowship in Environmental Journalism.

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Join the Awakening Educator as we interview Gustavo Garcia Rojas, a Counseling Psychology student at HNU, an Intern with OUSD, and a DACA recipient.

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Join the Awakening Educator as we interview Nicole Knight, a school district leader who oversees the district’s sanctuary program and the multi-language learning needs of students in Oakland, California.

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Join the Awakening Educator as we interview Myrna Alvarez, an immigration attorney who will share with us the implications of our current US Immigration Policy on migrants and their children. Myrna Alvarez is an immigration attorney who also doubled as an elementary teacher in East Oakland when she was just starting out. Myrna has built a successful practice as an immigration attorney who fights for people navigating the US Immigration system.

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​Susan and I are lifelong educators who bring our skills, curiosity and unique perspectives to the topics most relevant to educating our youth in today’s complex world.