Consultancy

My Brothers Keeper, Cambridge, MA Spring 2020-present

• "Freedom To Learn: National Day of Action"

  • In support of the Freedom to Learn (F2L) network, "this national resistance is an intervention to interrupt the proliferating anti-equity movement that presents expanding threats to our democracy."

  • Created a "Read [Aloud] In" for children and caregivers to read and listen to books for children thwat have been banned in classrooms and libraries.

  • Organized an author talk and Teach-In with historian Donald Yacovone about his newest book, "Teaching White Supremacy: America's Democratic Ordeal and the forging of our national identity." 

• Co-develop the Liberation Libraries

  • The Liberation Libraries are Little Free Libraries placed strategically around Cambridge with a collection of ten fiction and nonfiction titles for people from birth to adult, focused on a theme that reflects the multitude of Black experiences and stories in the United States

Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA 2021-2022

• Advisor for “To Begin Again: Artists and Childhood”

Inly School Scituate, MA Spring 2021

• Coach  faculty to recognize how race, culture, and experience affects their interactions and expectations of BIPOC students and  faculty members

• Co-create actionable antidotes to to white supremacy culture to counter status quo and dominant cultural narratives and actions

Dalton School, New York, NY Spring 2020- 2021

• Audit and review library policy and practice

• Update policy to reflect the work in antiracism the Dalton libraries, archives and museums are moving toward

Boston Public Schools, Boston, MA Fall 2019- Spring 2020

• Map mentor texts to Social Justice standards for use in Kindergarten curriculum around identity, diversity, justice and action with developmentally appropriate and representative texts

• Evaluate texts for deficit thinking or tokenism

• Advise in curriculum building for early childhood around identity and justice

Southern Westchester BOCES, Westchester, NY Fall 2019

• Create a program to train librarians how to begin to evaluate and audit their library collections for representative literature

• Produce a curriculum for librarians to understand the role of identity and bias in library practice, with a focus on collection development