Role At PHS: Spanish Teacher and Equity Team Member

Favorite Disruptor Quote: "Radical simply means, grasping the things at the root." ~Angela Davis~

Role At PHS: Social Studies Teacher and Equity Team Member

Favorite Disruptor Quote: "So here is why I write what I do: We all have futures. We all have pasts. We all have stories. And we all, every single one of us, no matter who we are and no matter what's been taken from us or what poison we've internalized or how hard we've had to work to expel it - we all get to dream." ~N.K. Jemisin~

Role At PHS: History Teacher and Equity Team Member

Favorite Disruptor Quote: "We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." ~Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. ~

Role At PHS: Assistant Principal and Equity Team Member

Favorite Disruptor Quote: "We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist." ~James Baldwin~

Role At PHS: English Teacher

Favorite Trailblazer Quote: "And so we lift our gazes not to what stands between us, but what stands before us. We close the divide because we know to put our future first, we must first put our differences aside. We lay down our arms so we can reach out our arms to one another. We seek harm to none and harmony for all." ~Amanda Gorman~

Role At PHS: Principal and Equity Team Member

Favorite Disruptor Quote: “We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.” ~Martin Luther King Jr.~

Role At PHS: Librarian and AP Capstone Instructor

Favorite Trailblazer Quote: "Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind." ~Toni Morrison~

Role At PHS: History Teacher and Equity Team Member

Favorite Trailblazer Quote: "From what we get, we can make a living. What we give; however makes a life." ~Arthur Ashe~

Role At PHS: Science Teacher and Equity Team Member

Favorite Disruptor Quote: "The time is always right to do what is right." ~Martin Luther King Jr.~

Role At PHS: French Teacher/HRC Faculty Advisor

Favorite Trailblazer Quote: " I tell my students when you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is to empower somebody else." ~Toni Morrison~

Role At PHS: Spanish Teacher, NHS Advisor, and Equity Team Member

Favorite Disruptor Quote: "I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance." ~Bell Hooks~

Role At PHS: English Teacher and Equity Team Member

Favorite Disruptor Quote: "Love Builds" ~Mary McLeod Bethune~

Role At PHS: English Teacher, AP Capstone, STAR Team and Equity Team Member

Favorite Trailblazer Quote: "I know the world is bruised and bleeding, and though it is important not to ignore its pain, it is also critical to refuse to succumb to its malevolence. Like failure, chaos contains information that can lead to knowledge - even wisdom. Like art." ~Toni Morrison~

Role At PHS: English Teacher

Favorite Disruptor Quote: "We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist." ~James Baldwin~

Role At PHS: Student Relations Facilitator and Equity Team Member

Favorite Disruptor Quote: "America's leaders must honor our fundamental values by clearly rejecting expressions of hatred, bigotry and group supremacy, which run counter to the American ideal that all people are created equal." ~Kenneth Fraizer~

Role At PHS: Principal of SYA and Equity Team Member

Favorite Disruptor Quote: "Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public." ~Cornel West~

Role At PHS: Business Teacher and Equity Team Member

Favorite Disruptor Quote: "If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair." ~Shirley Chisholm~