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Into the Stratosphere with Dr. Bishop and Friends: Episode I
Featuring Regina Anderson, Gwendolyn Baxley, Damaris Dunn, Carolyn Eanes, Nicole Hamilton, Ioanna Opidee, Tamsen Wojtanowski, and Nassim Zerriffi
Thursday, April 8, 2021 12:30 p.m. Eastern / 9:30 a.m. Pacific
These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.
Join Dr. Elizabeth Bishop and friends for the first conversation in a new series that brings together various educators and activists into the rhizomatic orbit of solidarity, knowledge building, and critical love. We conclude with a poetry reading from Adam Falkner.
In this Talk
Regina Anderson
is a Hybrid Socialist dedicated to helping the community and the Executive Director of Food Recovery Network. Regina believes deeply that we all have a part to play in helping our communities thrive and would love to collaborate for action.
Gwendolyn Baxley
Assistant Professor at the University of Buffalo, Gwendolyn Baxley, PhD focuses on critical qualitative and quantitative methodologies, exploring educational spaces in which Black youth and families survive, thrive, and navigate, and the role of race and AntiBlackness within these contexts. Her research investigates how school and community leaders cultivate nurturing, affirming spaces for Black youth as well as the structures, practices, and ideologies that facilitate or hinder the development of such spaces.
Damaris Dunn
Native New Yorker and educator, Damaris Dunn is currently pursuing a doctoral degree at the University of Georgia’s Mary Frances Early College of Education. Her research interests are educational equity and Black girl joy.
Carolyn Eanes
An educator, writer, activist, and organizer, Carolyn Eanes teaches English at a high school in Brooklyn, NY.
Nicole Hamilton
is a radical educator, trainer, curriculum designer, youth worker, circle keeper, and community builder currently working for Girls for Gender Equity as the Director of Community Partnerships.
Ioanna Opidee
A high school English teacher and author of the novel Waking Slow, Ioanna Opidee lives in Newtown, Connecticut with her family.
Tamsen Wojtanowski
An artist living and working in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Tamsen Wojtanowski explores the materiality of the photographic medium. Interested in where the medium of photography might overlap with painting, printmaking and installation, the resulting work oscillates between the abstract and the representational.
Nassim Zerriffi
Having 15 years of experience as an activist/educator, Nassim Zerriffi regularly leads workshops for teachers on different aspects of social justice education. He teaches history and facilitates the 7th and 8th grade activism campaigns at Manhattan Country School.
Elizabeth Bishop
Writer, researcher, professor, youth advocate, Nietzschean, and surf monk, Dr. Elizabeth Bishop is the author of two books, Becoming Activist (2015) and Embodying Theory (2018). She lives in Brooklyn with her dog, Messy.
The Rail has a tradition of ending our conversations with a poetry reading, and we're fortunate to have Dao Strom reading.
Dao Strom
Artist Dao Strom works with three “voices”—written, sung, visual—to explore hybridity and the intersection of personal and collective histories. She is the author of Instrument (Fonograf Editions, 2020) and its musical companion Traveler’s Ode (Antiquated Future Records, 2020); a bilingual poetry-art book, You Will Always Be Someone From Somewhere Else (AJAR Press); a memoir, We Were Meant To Be a Gentle People, and song cycle, East/West; and two books of fiction, The Gentle Order of Girls and Boys and Grass Roof, Tin Roof. Born in Vietnam, Strom grew up in the Sierra Nevada foothills of California and lives in Portland, Oregon. She is co-founder of two collective art projects, She Who Has No Master(s), and De-Canon.
We’d like to thank The Marion Boulton Kippy Stroud Foundation and Teiger Foundation for making these conversations possible, and for their support of our growing archive 🌈✨