Community Programming
I run programming for children, youth and families.
Imagining More Just Futures
With Anna Kirby, I run, Imagining More Just Futures (IMJF), a critical education project for children and their grown-ups. As part of IMJF, we offer programming including workshops, book clubs, Critical Participatory Action Research projects, and trainings for educators. We are available for collaborations or consulting, and we look forward to connecting with you! Visit our Imagining More Just Futures website to learn more.
GCP Family Book Club: Exploring Race & Identity
The GCP Family Book club was created during the 2020-2021 academic year, and was an initiative of the Graduate Commons Program at Harvard University, which serves Harvard families living in Harvard University Housing. In my role with Imagining More Just Futures, I partnered with my co-educator Anna Kirby (who also served as a GCP family curriculum design lead) to create the curriculum for and facilitate the book group. Throughout the project we partnered with Tanya Nixon-Silberg of Little Uprisings, and Zahirah nur Truth of ZNT Arts. You can read more about the project here.
I Am Because We Are
The Viajes de Mi Vida/Journeys of My Life Project was a project co-developed and led with Olivia Orosco and author Isabel Campoy in the spring of 2017. Willamette Academy Students engaged in three workshops exploring the importance and value of narratives, different forms of narratives, and writing our own narratives. In the final workshop, students wrote poems with Isabel Campoy. These poems were compiled into a book entitled I Am Because We Are. Copies were distributed to students, as well as surrounding libraries and schools. Books available upon request, proceeds are donated to Willamette Academy.
What Can You Do To Make The World More Beautiful?
In 2015, this literacy-based, interactive art display brought together an Oregon elementary school, public library and university, around the question of something we could do to make the world more beautiful. Kindergarteners and third graders contributed art to the display, and library-goers had the opportunity to grow their story by responding to it. The artists took a field trip to the library to see and present their work.
