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“Too often we think the work of fighting oppression is just intellectual. The real work is personal, emotional, spiritual, and communal.”

Bettina Love

Building communities Centered on Critical Hope & Possibility.

  • Workshops and Extended Learning Experiences.

    I offer a variety of workshops and extended professional learning experiences centered on building an inclusion, belonging, and antiracist centered lens for your community. Previous workshops include identifying and challenging manifestations of systemic oppressions within education, confronting bias, challenging micro aggressions to build a stronger culture of trust, recognizing and confronting defensive behaviors common with this work and engaging parent communities, amongst others. Workshop and learning experience objectives can be personalized to meet your community and contextual needs.

  • Curriculum Work.

    Using research based methods, I support educators in building a conceptual understanding and a practical toolkit for reviewing and redesigning curriculum that challenges systems of oppressions and hegemonic practices. Building from brilliance of educators like Paulo Freire, James Baldwin, bell hooks and Gloria Ladson-Billings, to name a few, my approach focuses on centering joy as a revolutionary act and celebrating all students, while also engaging learners who benefit from oppressive systems with the critical consciousness and tools to disinvest from said systems and radically dream of new ways to exist!

  • “Solidarity not charity”.

    Reimagine what community engagement looks like for your school. I support educational communities to examine their service learning and community service practices to challenge the savior complex mentality that too often persists in independent schools. I provide opportunities for in-depth learning, skill building and curriculum design, including all the necessary resources to sustain community engagement work that is rooted in authentic partnership and systemic social change.