Dré Carter
Dré is a longtime student with shifting interests and affiliations. He prefers to work in mixed media environments where the ephemeral intersects with the tangible. His current work is bent by the gravity of structural death.
Eghosa Obaizamomwan-Hamilton
Eghosa is a first generation Nigerian American originally from Sacramento. She is co-founder of Making Us Matter (M.U.M.), a Black woman-owned nonprofit educational organization. She is currently pursuing an Education doctorate with a concentration in Racial Justice at the University of San Francisco through the International & Multicultural Education department. She is the co-author of Making Us Matter & the Work of Spirit Revival and Black Teachers Are Essential: A Comparative Study In Black Student Experience. With over 16 years of experience her writing, teaching, and research meet at the intersections. Her sites of inquiry are centered on anti-Blackness in education, Critical Pedagogy, BlackCRT, Black hair identity, and Black feminist thought. She seeks collective liberation and visibility for those who have been left in the margins.
simple ant
Wassup y’all! My name is simple ant and I am passionate about seeking to understand (and make sense of) what happened to human life. I’m especially moved by the places where race, gender, class and nature intersect.
If you wanna know more, meet me at: https://simplewxnders.life
Kiara Smith
Kiara is a seventh year English Language Arts teacher who is currently working toward her Doctorate of Education at the University of San Francisco in the International and Multicultural Education Department. Her research interests include anti-Blackness and Indigenous Erasure in Latin American countries, as well as preventative and healing practices for Black females experiencing burnout, and Black liberatory curriculum.
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Dr. David Stovall
In the attempt to bring theory to action, he works with community organizations and schools to address issues of equity, justice and abolishing the school/prison nexus. His work led him to become a member of the design team for the Greater Lawndale/Little Village School for Social Justice (SOJO), which opened in the Fall of 2005. Furthering his work with communities, students, and teachers, his work manifests itself in his involvement with the Peoples Education Movement, a collection of classroom teachers, community members, students and university professors in Chicago, Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area who engage in collaborative community projects centered in creating relevant curriculum. In addition to his duties and responsibilities as a professor at UIC, he also served as a volunteer social studies teacher at the Greater Lawndale/Little Village School for Social Justice from 2005-2018.
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Dr. Bettina Love
Dr. Bettina L. Love is an award-winning author and the William F. Russell Professor at Teachers College, Columbia University. Her writing, research, teaching, and educational advocacy work meet at the intersection of disrupting education reform and strengthening public education through abolitionist teaching, antiracism, Black joy, and educational reparations. You can preorder her new book Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal wherever books are sold.