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Brian Buckley
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He holds a Master's of Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a Master of Arts in English from the University of Massachusetts. He currently lives with his wife Kate and three children and works as an elementary special education teacher, where he takes daily inspiration from the life and work of Barbara Henry.
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Andrea "Drea" Becker is a writer, editor, and tutor living in Boulder, CO. Originally from Dubuque, Iowa, Drea graduated from Naropa University with a degree in Creative Writing, Ecology & Systems Science, and Peace Studies in 2018. She has volunteer tutored at-risk students (via the I Have a Dream Foundation of Boulder County) since 2017.
Drea organizes and hosts poetry workshops that are free and open to the public. She designed and wrote this website. Drea believes that an equitable and inhabitable future is possible for everyone—if we all work toward it together.
Drea organizes and hosts poetry workshops that are free and open to the public. She designed and wrote this website. Drea believes that an equitable and inhabitable future is possible for everyone—if we all work toward it together.
Rupaleem Bhuyan joined the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work in 2008 as an Assistant Professor. She is currently an Associate Professor and an affiliate of the Women and Gender Studies Institute and a Fellow with the Centre for Critical Qualitative Research at the University of Toronto. Her interdisciplinary background in International Studies, Cultural Anthropology and Social Welfare allows her to integrate interpretive policy analysis and community-based participatory action research to address the sociocultural and political context of migration, social rights, and gender-based violence. Dr. Bhuyan explores how temporary and precarious immigration impacts immigrants’ access to social and health care services, including immigrants’ response to gender-based violence.
In 2011, Dr. Bhuyan co-created the Migrant Mothers Project, in collaboration with a network of community-based organizations, women’s rights and immigrant rights groups, and grassroots activists to document how immigration policies contribute to gendered inequality and different forms of gender-based violence. Migrant Mothers Project uses feminist, participatory, and action methods to foster deeper knowledge about the inequities that shape our lives and to identify strategies for collective action to advocate for dignity and human rights. Dr. Bhuyan is a member of the Gender Equality Network of Canada, the Rights of Non-Status Women Network, and is Co-Editor-in-Chief for Affilia: The Journal of Women and Social Work.
In 2011, Dr. Bhuyan co-created the Migrant Mothers Project, in collaboration with a network of community-based organizations, women’s rights and immigrant rights groups, and grassroots activists to document how immigration policies contribute to gendered inequality and different forms of gender-based violence. Migrant Mothers Project uses feminist, participatory, and action methods to foster deeper knowledge about the inequities that shape our lives and to identify strategies for collective action to advocate for dignity and human rights. Dr. Bhuyan is a member of the Gender Equality Network of Canada, the Rights of Non-Status Women Network, and is Co-Editor-in-Chief for Affilia: The Journal of Women and Social Work.
Adam Bradley is a professor of English and the founding director of the Laboratory for Race & Popular Culture (RAP Lab) at UCLA. He is a writer-at-large for the New York Times’ T Magazine where he contributes essays and profiles on the arts and culture. Bradley is the author or editor of six books, including Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop; The Anthology of Rap; and the New York Times bestseller One Day It’ll All Make Sense, a memoir he wrote for the rapper and actor Common. He has also written extensively on the literature and legacy of the novelist Ralph Ellison. Bradley’s latest book, The Poetry of Pop, unlocks the mysteries of word, image, and sound in popular music across genres, featuring the music of Bruce Springsteen, Beyoncé, and beyond.
Professor Camille T. Dungy is the author of the essay collection Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History (W. W. Norton, 2017), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and four collections of poetry, most recently Trophic Cascade (Wesleyan UP, 2017), winner of the Colorado Book Award. She edited Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry (UGA, 2009), co-edited the From the Fishouse poetry anthology (Persea, 2009), and served as assistant editor on Gathering Ground: Celebrating Cave Canem's First Decade (University of Michigan Press, 2006). Dungy's work has appeared in Best American Poetry, 100 Best African American Poems, Best American Essays, Best American Travel Essays, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, New Daughters of Africa, nearly 30 other anthologies, plus dozens of print and online venues including Poetry, American Poetry Review, VQR, Literary Hub, Orion, The Paris Review, Emergence Magazine, and Poets.org.
Her honors include a 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Book Award, two NAACP Image Award Nominations, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts in both prose and poetry. Professor Dungy has taught the Intermediate and Advanced Poetry Workshop, Environmental Literature, Writing the Environment, African American Literature, Recent U.S. Poetry, and graduate seminars in Docupoetics, Kinship and Community, and Literary Mapping.
Her honors include a 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Book Award, two NAACP Image Award Nominations, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts in both prose and poetry. Professor Dungy has taught the Intermediate and Advanced Poetry Workshop, Environmental Literature, Writing the Environment, African American Literature, Recent U.S. Poetry, and graduate seminars in Docupoetics, Kinship and Community, and Literary Mapping.
Taylor Harrison is an Elementary School Teacher in the St. Vrain Valley School District. She graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelors of Science in Elementary Education K-6 with a minor in Special Education from The University of Northern Colorado. She has been a reading and math interventionist for K-4 and a classroom teacher for 3rd, 4th, and now 5th grade.
The students she has taught have come from diverse backgrounds and socioeconomic statuses. From traveling to see education in practice in Brazil, New Zealand, and now the U.S. her passion to bring an equitable, diverse and inclusive education to her students shines through every day of her teaching practice.
The students she has taught have come from diverse backgrounds and socioeconomic statuses. From traveling to see education in practice in Brazil, New Zealand, and now the U.S. her passion to bring an equitable, diverse and inclusive education to her students shines through every day of her teaching practice.
Tim Z. Hernandez is an award winning writer, research scholar, and performance artist, whose works have been featured in the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, CNN, C-Span Book TV, Public Radio International, and National Public Radio.
In 2006, his debut collection of poetry, Skin Tax (Heyday Books) received the American Book Award, and the James Duval Phelan Award from the San Francisco Foundation. His first novel, Breathing, In Dust (Texas Tech University Press) was awarded the 2010 Premio Aztlan Prize in fiction from the National Hispanic Cultural Center, and in 2011, the Poetry Society of America named him one of sixteen New American Poets.
In 2013, he released his third collection of poetry, Natural Takeover of Small Things (University of Arizona Press), which went on to recieve the 2014 Colorado Book Award in Poetry. Also in 2013, he released an historical fiction novel, Mañana Means Heaven (University of Arizona Press), which is based on the life of Bea Franco, the real woman behind author Jack Kerouac’s “Mexican Girl” in his book On the Road. Based on Hernandez’s relentless search to locate the mysterious Bea Franco, the book is grounded in one-on-one interviews the author conducted with her before she died at the age of 92. Mañana Means Heaven garnered rave reviews from international critics, and went on to receive the 2014 International Latino Book Award. In 2014 he was also a finalist for the inaugural Split This Rock Freedom Plow Award for his work on locating the victims of the 1948 plane wreck at Los Gatos—the incident made famous by Woody Guthrie’s song of the same name. The result of this six year long investigative work is the basis for his most recent book, All They Will Call You (University of Arizona Press), and the forthcoming documentary, Searching for the Plane Wreck at Los Gatos Canyon.
As a performer, Hernandez has collaborated with experimental theater troupes, Grammy Award winning composers, hip-hop and Latin Rock artists, from universities and cultural institutions to black box theaters in New York City, from the Getty Center in Los Angeles to the migrant labor camps of central California.
Hernandez holds a B.A. in Writing & Literature from Naropa University, and an M.F.A. from Bennington College in Vermont. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Texas El Paso’s Bilingual M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing.
In 2006, his debut collection of poetry, Skin Tax (Heyday Books) received the American Book Award, and the James Duval Phelan Award from the San Francisco Foundation. His first novel, Breathing, In Dust (Texas Tech University Press) was awarded the 2010 Premio Aztlan Prize in fiction from the National Hispanic Cultural Center, and in 2011, the Poetry Society of America named him one of sixteen New American Poets.
In 2013, he released his third collection of poetry, Natural Takeover of Small Things (University of Arizona Press), which went on to recieve the 2014 Colorado Book Award in Poetry. Also in 2013, he released an historical fiction novel, Mañana Means Heaven (University of Arizona Press), which is based on the life of Bea Franco, the real woman behind author Jack Kerouac’s “Mexican Girl” in his book On the Road. Based on Hernandez’s relentless search to locate the mysterious Bea Franco, the book is grounded in one-on-one interviews the author conducted with her before she died at the age of 92. Mañana Means Heaven garnered rave reviews from international critics, and went on to receive the 2014 International Latino Book Award. In 2014 he was also a finalist for the inaugural Split This Rock Freedom Plow Award for his work on locating the victims of the 1948 plane wreck at Los Gatos—the incident made famous by Woody Guthrie’s song of the same name. The result of this six year long investigative work is the basis for his most recent book, All They Will Call You (University of Arizona Press), and the forthcoming documentary, Searching for the Plane Wreck at Los Gatos Canyon.
As a performer, Hernandez has collaborated with experimental theater troupes, Grammy Award winning composers, hip-hop and Latin Rock artists, from universities and cultural institutions to black box theaters in New York City, from the Getty Center in Los Angeles to the migrant labor camps of central California.
Hernandez holds a B.A. in Writing & Literature from Naropa University, and an M.F.A. from Bennington College in Vermont. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Texas El Paso’s Bilingual M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing.
Robert Kelty started his career in Crownpoint, New Mexico in the heart of the Navajo Nation with Teach For America in 2001. Since that time, Robert has served as a head of school, superintendent, senior manager for Teach For America, and as an elected official as the Coconino County Superintendent of Schools, where he worked with all levels of government and six indigenous nations. Most recently, Robert led Puente de Hózhó Elementary School, a Navajo immersion and Spanish/English bilingual program predicated on meaningful school integration and language preservation and revitalization.
He now works with the International Baccalaureate as a senior manager in the D.C. Global Centre. Robert received his doctorate from Northern Arizona University (NAU) and was awarded an honorary doctorate from NAU in 2008. He is a former Arizona Teacher of the Year, led a podcast series on IB Voices around school reopenings from the COVID-19 pandemic with a trauma-informed approach, and contributing author to On Indian Ground: The Southwest (2021). He is married to Samantha Kelty, an attorney for the Native American Rights Fund (NARF), and has two super-hero children.
He now works with the International Baccalaureate as a senior manager in the D.C. Global Centre. Robert received his doctorate from Northern Arizona University (NAU) and was awarded an honorary doctorate from NAU in 2008. He is a former Arizona Teacher of the Year, led a podcast series on IB Voices around school reopenings from the COVID-19 pandemic with a trauma-informed approach, and contributing author to On Indian Ground: The Southwest (2021). He is married to Samantha Kelty, an attorney for the Native American Rights Fund (NARF), and has two super-hero children.
Lorraine Lago is the Head of School at Saint John's School in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
A native of Ponce, Puerto Rico, she completed her BA at Harvard University and went on to finish a Masters Degree at Columbia University, Teachers College.
She has worked in both private and public education settings and collaborated with universities and other non-profits in designing teacher and principal training programs. She has a strong sense of social responsibility and is a skilled strategist.
A native of Ponce, Puerto Rico, she completed her BA at Harvard University and went on to finish a Masters Degree at Columbia University, Teachers College.
She has worked in both private and public education settings and collaborated with universities and other non-profits in designing teacher and principal training programs. She has a strong sense of social responsibility and is a skilled strategist.
Ora Marek-Martinez serves as the Executive Director of the Native American Cultural Center at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, AZ. A member of the Navajo Mountain Cove clan, and originally from the Nez Perce reservation in northern Idaho, Marek-Martinez moved to the Flagstaff area more than 20 years ago. Her husband and three children now consider it home.
Coming from a long lineage of Lumberjacks—dating back to her grandfather who started his education at NAU in the 1950’s—Marek-Martinez herself is a two-time alumna of NAU with a bachelor’s in Anthropology and History and a master’s in applied Cultural Anthropology with an emphasis in tribal cultural resource management. She obtained her Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley in Anthropology-Archaeology with an emphasis in tribal archaeology in 2016.
As the executive director of the Native American Cultural Center, she spearheads the programming of students, faculty, staff and local Native American and Indigenous communities, fundraising for scholarships, events, programs and other NACC goals, strategic planning for the NACC, creating and maintaining of the NAU office of Native American Initiatives Newsletter and overseeing of the NACC budget.
Coming from a long lineage of Lumberjacks—dating back to her grandfather who started his education at NAU in the 1950’s—Marek-Martinez herself is a two-time alumna of NAU with a bachelor’s in Anthropology and History and a master’s in applied Cultural Anthropology with an emphasis in tribal cultural resource management. She obtained her Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley in Anthropology-Archaeology with an emphasis in tribal archaeology in 2016.
As the executive director of the Native American Cultural Center, she spearheads the programming of students, faculty, staff and local Native American and Indigenous communities, fundraising for scholarships, events, programs and other NACC goals, strategic planning for the NACC, creating and maintaining of the NAU office of Native American Initiatives Newsletter and overseeing of the NACC budget.
Darrell R. Marks, an indigenous Dine'/Navajo and the Native American Academic Advisor for Flagstaff High School, advocates for the rights and works to meet the unmet needs of the Navajo and Hopi tribal communities. Marks, a single parent raising two teenage sons, has coordinated deliveries of food and supplies to Navajo and Hopi families struggling during the pandemic; advocated for voting rights in the face of efforts to disenfranchise Native Americans; worked to provide access to remote learning opportunities in tribal areas made even more isolated by COVID-19; and served as a personal counselor and resource to students struggling with loss and depression.
"Darrell R. Marks is a man who has utilized his faith and traditional Navajo values and his relationships with students, families, and communities to serve with heroism throughout this Pandemic. He has helped screen and assess to know when students needed increased emotional support, and when Elders and families who were in a lock down status on the Navajo and Hopi Nation lands to prevent the spread of COVID, he helped organize and direct the response of emergency food and supplies. And Mr. Marks, even while experiencing his own family losses during this Pandemic, has assisted in advocating, and supporting students with the traditional grieving ceremonies and with sharing knowledge with the school to increase understanding and support of these students." - Joan P Dewey, LCSW, Student Support Services, School Social Worker
"Darrell R. Marks is a man who has utilized his faith and traditional Navajo values and his relationships with students, families, and communities to serve with heroism throughout this Pandemic. He has helped screen and assess to know when students needed increased emotional support, and when Elders and families who were in a lock down status on the Navajo and Hopi Nation lands to prevent the spread of COVID, he helped organize and direct the response of emergency food and supplies. And Mr. Marks, even while experiencing his own family losses during this Pandemic, has assisted in advocating, and supporting students with the traditional grieving ceremonies and with sharing knowledge with the school to increase understanding and support of these students." - Joan P Dewey, LCSW, Student Support Services, School Social Worker
Linda Nathan prepares school and nonprofit leaders to transform education and community-based organizations. As one of the founding directors of the Perrone-Sizer Institute, she continues to lead the program and teach professionals to champion equity and racial justice, integrate artistic and design thinking, and engage youth and families. She also provides consulting services for several of Hale’s clients. Previously, she served as the executive director of the Center for Artistry and Scholarship and founded Boston Arts Academy—the city’s first public high school for the visual and performing arts—where she also served as headmaster. An adjunct lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a professor at Cambridge College, she’s a passionate teacher and author of two books: The Hardest Questions Aren’t on the Test and When Grit Isn’t Enough.
When she isn’t in the classroom, you’ll find her tending to her garden or crafting teapots in her ceramics studio. Linda earned a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley; an M.Ed. in Educational Administration from Antioch College; an M.A. in Theatre from Emerson College; and an Ed.D. from Harvard University.
When she isn’t in the classroom, you’ll find her tending to her garden or crafting teapots in her ceramics studio. Linda earned a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley; an M.Ed. in Educational Administration from Antioch College; an M.A. in Theatre from Emerson College; and an Ed.D. from Harvard University.
Anwar Kevin Qazilbash ("Mr. Q") has taught middle school math in Baltimore and Boston for 19 years and has served as the cofounder and principal of Spark Academy for the last 8 years. He has earned National Board Teachers' Certification, has been nominated for Boston Teacher of the Year, and was awarded the Distinguished Teachers Fulbright by the U.S. State Department. He holds a Bachelor's of Science in finance from Rutgers University and a Masters of Education in Principal Leadership from Harvard University. Mr. Q is supported and sustained by his wife, Emily, his 3 "home kids," Maya, Alex, and Clavin, and his thousands of "school kids," both current and former, whom he has had the privilege of working with and knowing for the last 27 years.
Kathy Schultz is Dean and Professor of Education at the University of Colorado Boulder School of Education. She joined CU Boulder in 2017, following her appointment as Dean of the School of Education at Mills College in Oakland, California from 2010-2016. She also served as professor and director of the teacher education program at the University of Pennsylvania from 1997-2010 where she founded and directed the Center for Collaborative Research and Practice in Teacher Education. During that time, she was the faculty director of the Philadelphia Writing Project and served on the Empowerment Board (School Board) of the Chester Upland School District.
Her scholarly work has focused on the research, development, and dissemination of practices that support new and veteran teachers working with marginalized populations in high poverty areas.
Her two recent books, Listening: A framework for teaching across differences and Rethinking classroom participation: Listening to silent voices address these issues. In 2019, she published her most recent book, Distrust and educational change: Overcoming barriers to just and lasting reform, about the role of distrust in educational reform that draws on her work in Oakland and as a school board member and leader of professional development in international settings.
Since coming to CU Boulder, one of her areas of focus has been to work with the faculty to develop place-based partnerships including student teaching, professional development, research, policy, and community-engaged projects in three areas: rural Northeast Colorado, Lafayette (in Boulder County), and the Montbello area of Denver. She has been working closely with colleagues in Northeast Colorado to develop recruitment and retention strategies for rural teachers as a way to address the teacher shortage in that area and across rural communities in Colorado, and supported several professional development initiatives including the launch of two online degree programs, the Bachelor’s in Interdisciplinary Studies and Master’s in Teacher Leadership programs.
Schultz is committed to advancing the School of Education's public scholarship and educational equity and justice mission. As a founder and the current co-chair of the Education Deans for Justice and Equity, she is leading efforts to recruit and support students, faculty, and staff of color in the School of Education and aligning the school's equity and justice work with the national imperatives to speak and act collectively and in solidarity with communities for more just policies, reforms, and public discourse around education.
Her scholarly work has focused on the research, development, and dissemination of practices that support new and veteran teachers working with marginalized populations in high poverty areas.
Her two recent books, Listening: A framework for teaching across differences and Rethinking classroom participation: Listening to silent voices address these issues. In 2019, she published her most recent book, Distrust and educational change: Overcoming barriers to just and lasting reform, about the role of distrust in educational reform that draws on her work in Oakland and as a school board member and leader of professional development in international settings.
Since coming to CU Boulder, one of her areas of focus has been to work with the faculty to develop place-based partnerships including student teaching, professional development, research, policy, and community-engaged projects in three areas: rural Northeast Colorado, Lafayette (in Boulder County), and the Montbello area of Denver. She has been working closely with colleagues in Northeast Colorado to develop recruitment and retention strategies for rural teachers as a way to address the teacher shortage in that area and across rural communities in Colorado, and supported several professional development initiatives including the launch of two online degree programs, the Bachelor’s in Interdisciplinary Studies and Master’s in Teacher Leadership programs.
Schultz is committed to advancing the School of Education's public scholarship and educational equity and justice mission. As a founder and the current co-chair of the Education Deans for Justice and Equity, she is leading efforts to recruit and support students, faculty, and staff of color in the School of Education and aligning the school's equity and justice work with the national imperatives to speak and act collectively and in solidarity with communities for more just policies, reforms, and public discourse around education.
Christine Min Wotipka is Associate Professor (Teaching) of Education and (by courtesy) Sociology and Director of the Master’s Program in International Comparative Education (ICE) and International Education Policy Analysis (IEPA) at the Stanford Graduate School of Education. Dr. Wotipka is co-Resident Fellow at the Education and Society Theme (EAST) House, which she co-founded in 2010. Starting in the 2021-22 academic year, EAST House will become the Equity, Access & Society Theme House. From 2012-2016, she served as Director of the Program in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Stanford University. In 2019, she was elected to the Stanford Faculty Senate and after serving on the Committee on Committees, was a member of the Steering Committee in 2020 and 2021.
Dr. Wotipka’s research centers around two main themes examined from cross-national and longitudinal approaches. The first relates to leadership in higher education with a focus on gender, race and ethnicity, and sexuality. The second theme, that of citizenship and education, explores how social science curricula, namely school textbooks, have shifted focus away from the development of national identities to ones that emphasize global citizenship. Her articles have appeared in Social Forces, Sociology of Education, Gender & Society, American Journal of Education, Comparative Education Review, and International Journal of Comparative Sociology.
Dr. Wotipka’s research centers around two main themes examined from cross-national and longitudinal approaches. The first relates to leadership in higher education with a focus on gender, race and ethnicity, and sexuality. The second theme, that of citizenship and education, explores how social science curricula, namely school textbooks, have shifted focus away from the development of national identities to ones that emphasize global citizenship. Her articles have appeared in Social Forces, Sociology of Education, Gender & Society, American Journal of Education, Comparative Education Review, and International Journal of Comparative Sociology.