Date/Time
Thursday, September 2, 2021
6:00 PM EDT - 7:15 PM EDT
Location:
Virtual via Zoom
Event Title:
2021 Barbara Biber Convocation
Featuring Dr. Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz
Description:
The Barbara Biber Convocation is the centerpiece of the Bank Street Graduate School of Education orientation and welcome for incoming graduate students. The esteemed Barbara Biber Lecture provides an opportunity for the College community to engage with seminal scholars on leading issues in education that contribute to innovative practices and understandings in diverse settings.
About the Guest Speaker
Dr. Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz is an award-winning associate professor at Teachers College, Columbia University. Her research focuses on racial literacy in teacher education, Black girl literacies, and Black and Latinx male high school students. A sought-after speaker on issues of race, culturally responsive pedagogy, and diversity, Sealey-Ruiz works with K-12 and higher education school communities to increase their racial literacy knowledge and move toward more equitable school experiences for their Black and Latinx students. Sealey-Ruiz appeared in Spike Lee’s 2 Fists Up: We Gon’ Be Alright, a documentary about the Black Lives Matter movement and the campus protests at Mizzou. Her co-authored book (with Dr. Detra Price-Dennis), Advancing Racial Literacies in Teacher Education: Toward Activism for Equity in Digital Spaces, will be published in April 2021. Her first full-length collection of poetry, Love from the Vortex & Other Poems (Kalediscope Vibrations LLC), was published in March 2020 and her sophomore book of poetry, The Peace Chronicles, was released in July 2021.
Cost:
Free
Contact:
Gretchen Adams
gadams@bankstreet.edu
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