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. 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.