Public Education (The Panel)

In the second episode, L. Joy follows up the first episode with a panel discussion on public education in front of a live studio audience.

Panel Guests Brooklyn High School Students: Monifa Akowe Halsey & Nia Rainer

Rafiq R. Kalam Id-Din II, Esq is the Co-founder & Managing Partner of Ember Charter School for Mindful Education (formerly TFOA Charter School) and Founder of the #BlackLedSchoolsMatter initiative. Rafiq, a resident, community leader, social entrepreneur, lawyer and teacher in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, is a 2017 Ford Public Voices Fellow, President of the NYU Law Alumni of Color Association, and member of the board of directors for the Echoing Green Fellowship for Social Entrepreneurs.

Zakiyah Ansari is the Advocacy Director with the New York State Alliance for Quality Education (AQE) the leading statewide organization that has been working to fight for educational equity for the last 14 years. Zakiyah was one of the few parent advocates appointed to Mayor Bill De Blasio’s Transition Committee and is also a member of the city’s community schools steering committee. As a mother of eight and grandmother of three, she is a founding parent leader of the NYC Coalition for Educational Justice, a collaborative of community-based organizations organizing a movement to end the inequities in the city’s public school system. Zakiyah is also one of the co-initiators of a national grassroots movement, “Journey for Justice,” an emerging alliance currently composed of grassroots community-based organizations from over 20 cities across the United States.

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