The connections between past and present intersecting movements in the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Civil Rights Memorial Center educate and inspire individuals to continue the fight for justice.
Jasmine Evans is a freelance writer from the San Francisco Bay Area with experience as a college counselor and English teacher. She writes education articles for parents, students, and educators. She’s currently working on her MFA in English & Creative Writing at Mills College with the hopes of writing novels for young adults in the future.
TT Grants coordinator Jey Ehrenhalt talked with elementary educator Kristie Burnett, who models mindfulness and brings meditative practices to the students in her third-grade classroom in upstate New York.
Dr. Brittney Beck is an assistant professor of teacher education at California State University, Bakersfield and a Faculty Fellow with the Kegley Institute of Ethics. Her teaching and research focus on preparing educators to design curricula and pedagogies that foster social emotional learning, ethical reasoning and democratic competency. She can be reached at bbeck4@csub.edu.
Melinda D. Anderson is an education writer in Washington, D.C. with special interest in race, class, educational equity and educational justice. She is a founding member of EduColor, an inclusive collective of educators, parents, students, writers and activists that cultivates and promotes diverse voices in the public education conversation and policymaking process. Follow her on Twitter @mdawriter.