Community Collaborations
I’m proud and humbled to nurture ongoing collaborations and facilitate workshops with the following people and organizations
I organized an Anti-Bias and Micro-aggression Workshop for Teachers with Dr. Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz, Teachers College at Columbia University
For nearly a decade I’ve collaborated with ImmSchools, first as teacher learner and faculty member of UndocuFriendly and then as as curator of ImmSchools trainings.
I collaborated with Lambda Literary’s Writers in Schools program, a beloved feature of my Guest Writers series for 8 years. We welcomed diverse authors and explored stories about intersectional identities: race, class, sexuality, gender identity.
I spearheaded a professional development series around autism and appreciating and supporting all learners. We learned about Autistic communities and culture and Deaf culture and disability pride. We welcomed blind authors and poets and a novelist scholar with Cerebral Palsy to speak with students and faculty..
ByKids puts cameras into kids’ hands and invites them to tell their own stories. Focusing on BIPOC teens and tweens and youth from around the world, ByKids helps us see the world from a child’s point of view.
I studied with Dr. Jessica Hochman at the Pratt Institute and over a decade collaborated with her as she established a multiracial team of DEI educators known as We Need 2 Talk. I invited We Need 2 Talk to design a yearlong residency at Bard Queens that included establishing faculty affinity groups and designing school wide antiracism and inclusion initiatives. Through We Need 2 Talk’s first year at Bard, I supported their training program and considered how it might fit into the whole sequence of faculty professional development.
