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upcoming events
October 2: Freedom Fridays (Carnival and Freedom Celebrations)
October 2: Freedom Fridays (Carnival and Freedom Celebrations)
October 2: Freedom Fridays (Carnival and Freedom Celebrations)
Join Noor Jones-Bey for a self-care celebration for BIPOC featuring art forms such as poetry, text, song, a writing prompt, a meditation, meme, or movement to inspire you throughout the month
November 6: Freedom Fridays (Fete Collage)
October 2: Freedom Fridays (Carnival and Freedom Celebrations)
October 2: Freedom Fridays (Carnival and Freedom Celebrations)
Join Noor Jones-Bey for a self-care celebration for BIPOC featuring art forms such as poetry, text, song, a writing prompt, a meditation, meme, or movement to inspire you throughout the month
What We Do
ATN Fellows
Activists in Residence
Activists in Residence
ATN awards grants to teachers who strive to disrupt inequalities and injustice within their schools, communities, or both.
Activists in Residence
Activists in Residence
Activists in Residence
The heart of ATN rests on the network’s Activists in Residence.
Sites
Activists in Residence
Yearly Conference
ATN works with community organizers who are interested in education to become SCOs.
Yearly Conference
Resources for Agitators
Yearly Conference
Starting in the summer of 2022, ATN will hold a yearly conference in Atlanta, GA to gather radical minds around the issues that impact schools and communities.
Radical Self Care
Resources for Agitators
Resources for Agitators
If teachers are not well, how can we expect the students to be well?
Resources for Agitators
Resources for Agitators
Resources for Agitators
Explore podcasts, videos, and articles to support your agitation. Coming soon: a directory of resources in your community!
MEET THE TEAM
Bettina L. Love, Board Member
Bettina Love is an educator who teaches, writes, researches, and advocates at the intersection of racism, education, and abolition. She is the author of the book We Want To Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom.
Brandelyn Tosolt, Board Member
Brandelyn Tosolt is an educator who amplifies voices from the educational margins. She works with teachers and educational leaders in the greater Cincinnati area to transform schools into places which celebrate Blackness and joy.
Chelsey Culley-Love, Board Member
Chelsey Culley-Love is a third grade educator in Atlanta, GA. She began teaching Exceptional Student Education in Homestead, FL. Culley-Love is currently working to build an engaging and effective learning community in Atlanta’s Fourth Ward. This work is facilitated by her experience and belief in the power of education to ensure students are having a meaningful, social justice oriented, joy-filled learning experience!
David Stovall, Board Member
David Stovall, Ph.D. is Professor of African-American Studies and Criminology, Law & Justice at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). His work with communities, students, and teachers manifests itself in his involvement with the Peoples Education Movement, a collection of classroom teachers, community members, students and university professors in Chicago, Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area. In addition to his duties and responsibilities as a professor at UIC, he also served as a volunteer social studies teacher at the Greater Lawndale/Little Village School for Social Justice from 2005-2018.
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Cynthia Dillard, Board Member
Cynthia B. Dillard (Nana Mansa II of Mpeasem, Ghana) is an enstooled Queen Mother/Black feminist teacher educator/school builder/researcher/retreat leader whose life and work spans the US and Ghana, West Africa. She is the author of three books about the work of spirituality in teaching and learning for Black life and is currently working on her fourth book, We (Re)member: Black Women Teachers and the Spirit of Our Work.
Farima Pour-Khorshid, Board Member
Farima Pour-Khorshid, Ph.D. is a professor of Teacher Education at the University of San Francisco (USF) in California and holds leadership roles in grassroots collectives such as the Teachers 4 Social Justice, the People’s Education Movement and the national Education for Liberation Network. She has over a decade of experience teaching at the elementary level as well as lecturing, supervising and supporting educators locally, nationally and internationally through her roles as a university professor, teacher supervisor, educational consultant and grassroots community organizer.
Martha Allexsaht-Snider, Board Member
Martha Allexsaht-Snider, Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Theory and Practice at the University of Georgia, has worked for many years with educators and families in diverse multilingual settings, including U. S. Latino/a and immigrant communities, as well as rural and indigenous communities in México. Her focus has been on engaging with families and educators to promote equity in mathematics and science teaching and learning. Recently, she has worked with educators, parents, and children in schools in Turkey serving multilingual families with refugee status.
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