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Westtown School’s Inaugural Ninth Grade BIPOC Summer Camp
Just months before the pandemic, Diversity and Inclusion Specialist Marissa Colston and I had been pondering the need...
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"Score!"
As the Dean of Access and Equity and administrator of the Full Access Program, I have the awesome privilege of...
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Motherhood Reimagined.
I am what you call a Single Mother by Choice. I chose to intentionally have a baby without a partner using an anonymous...
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Learning and Growing in A White Affinity Space
In her blog post of June 2, 2020, Marissa Colston, Westtown’s Dean of Diversity of Inclusion, listed “Tools to Help us...
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“If You Build It, They Will Come” Creating Spaces Especially For You
“If you build it, they will come,” a popular Field of Dreams movie reference, was a central theme in my upbringing and...
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DOING THE WORK: Anti-Racist Teaching and Community Building in the Era of Black Lives Matter
I come from an intellectual tradition that sees scholarship as akin to combat. I was trained to see scholarly jousting...
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Why Affinity Spaces Give Me Life
When I was in middle and high school, I was often the only black student or student of color in the classroom. I lived...
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We Can't Breathe!
My phone was blowing up. Push notifications and texts from friends and colleagues were letting me know that the...
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Tools to Help Us Heal and Take Action
In response to the violence of systemic racism that we have witnessed these past weeks, I want to offer ways in which...