LaShawnda earned her M.S.Ed. from Penn GSE’s Education Policy Program, where she also worked as research assistant for the Racial Empowerment Collaborative. A first generation graduate of the University of Virginia, Brooks joined Teach for America in 2009, serving for two years in Atlanta and later worked as an instructional coach for City Year. She now directs Philips Andover Academy’s Institute for the Recruitment of Teachers.
Read MoreA student in GSE and a writer at heart, Amiri holds strong convictions about the universal right of human beings to be treated with dignity, afforded freedom, and allowed to seek fulfillment. His hope is to live in such a way that his work affirms and honors this belief, and that he never relinquishes his abiding passion for candor, empathy, education, advising, inquiry, programming and art
Read MoreMichaela is a student in Education, Culture, and Society program. She’s interested in youth-led activism and the intersection between legal advocacy and community organizing, with an overarching interest in anti-racist policy and resource allocation in public schools.
Read MoreErin Waddles was a master’s student in the University of Pennsylvania’s Higher Education Division. To enhance her experience, she worked as a graduate intern at the Greenfield Intercultural Center, where she supported all of the programming and training at this center. Her professional interests center on promoting equity, access, and diversity in higher education.
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