I laced up my sneakers after quietly rolling out of bed, hoping not to wake up my son, who often sneaks into my room at night. For a brief moment, I gazed
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Before we get started, I want you to really take a moment and imagine how it feels to walk in my shoes for a day: I’m a Queer, Hmong, Asian American Woman.
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One of my mentors begins each interrogative problem-solving conversation with the same question, “Who knew what, when, and what did you do about it?” The q
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“We’re all in the same storm, not the same boat.” https://twitter.com/PeeplesChoice85/status/1255663446135386115?s=20 That’s the statement one of my friend
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The national media rarely focuses on communities like Brownsville, Texas. When they do, border communities are often painted in black-and-white, used as a
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I am a former school leader and a current educational strategist who works with charter leaders from all across New Orleans. Together, we have been thinkin
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Coronavirus has given us little to celebrate. My hope is that one of the silver linings during this crisis is that all students, but especially girls, have
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Everybody’s waiting on the day when things will go back to normal. Not me. Don’t get me wrong—I’m all the way over COVID-19. Tired of talking about it and
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Just by way of introduction, let me begin this post the way I have begun most conversations in the past month: I am both exhausted and privileged to be so.
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