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Conversations With...Dr. Bettina Love

Wed, Oct 18

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Location is The Youth Power Hub

Dr. Bettina L. Love is the William F. Russell Professor at Teachers College, Columbia University and author of the New York Times bestseller Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal.

Conversations With...Dr. Bettina Love
Conversations With...Dr. Bettina Love

Time & Location

Oct 18, 2023, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM

Location is The Youth Power Hub

About the event

TDr. Bettina L. Love is the William F. Russell Professor at Teachers College, Columbia University and author of the New York Times bestseller Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal. In 2022, the Kennedy Center named Dr. Love one of the Next 50 Leaders making the world more inspired, inclusive, and compassionate. A co-founder of the Abolitionist Teaching Network (ATN), whose mission is to develop and support teachers and parents fighting injustice within their schools and communities, she has overseen over $250,000 in grants to abolitionists around the country. She is also a founding member of the Task Force that launched the program In Her Hands, one of the largest guaranteed income pilot programs in the U.S., which has distributed more than $15 million to Black women living in Georgia. Dr. Love is a sought-after public speaker on a range of topics, including abolitionist teaching, anti-racism, Hip Hop education, Black girlhood, queer youth, educational reparations, and art-based education to foster youth civic engagement. She is also the author of the bestseller We Want To Do More Than Survive. Dr. Love has also provided commentary for various news outlets including NPR, PBS, Washington Post, The Daily Beast, TimeEd WeekThe Guardian, and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

The Conversations With…Series has been developed to bring young people together with prominent thinkers in an intimate setting so that they can ask questions, engage in critical conversations and become educated about various topics. YMAN is a non-profit organization dedicated to building youth power through mentoring, wellness and education and like the work of YMAN, the series is part of our mission to re-imagine and re-make youth-led and multigenerational spaces in which healthy dialogue, community-engaged education, and civic engagement create equitable environments for youth to thrive in.

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