Worcester Academy’s Open Gates program, in collaboration with the Office of Equity and Inclusion, will host Ali Michael Ph.D, who will present and provide activities that invite us to look closely at the complex issues of race, education, and equity. This is the second event in a year-long conversation series which examines the question: “How can we make the world a better place through our actions?”
Ali Michael, Ph.D., is the Director of K-12 Consulting and Professional Development at the Center for the Study of Race and Equity in Education at the University of Pennsylvania and the Director of the Race Institute for K-12 Educators. She is the author of Raising Race Questions: Whiteness, Inquiry and Education (2015, Teachers College Press): a book designed to support teachers in the long term and personal process of understanding the role that race plays in their lives and in their classrooms. She is also co-editor of Everyday White People Confront Racial and Social Injustice: 15 Stories (2015, Stylus Press). She and her partner, Michael, live in Philadelphia and consider questions of race and education on a daily basis in the raising of their two children. Ali believes that the skills required for racial competence can be learned and practiced.
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