106 Pt. 2 Curricular Concerns + Parent As The Cure | Dr. Marta Effinger-Crichlow

As promised, here's the second half of ep. 5 and equally as
good!
Thank you, Marta!


In part one we discussed educator accountability. This hits home
with parents having agency in supporting culturally responsive
and anti-racist curriculum for our young scholars, and their
peers.


Highlights
*what wakes Marta up,
*choosing indy school education,
*the personal power narratives as armor,
*LITTLE SALLIE WALKER,
and,
*[4.10 RIISE workshop] Cause No Harm: Curricular Concerns &
How to Cure Them - A Parent & Educator Independent School
Workshop
Register on 4RIISE.org!


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Dr. Marta Effinger Crichlow is an interdisciplinary artist and
educator whose projects in the mediums of theater, film, and
literature highlight her mission to fuse social issues, culture,
and history. She is the descendant of Black southern migrants who
continue to inform her sensibilities and her path. Marta is a
past recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities grant.
She also received a Pittsburgh Multicultural Arts Initiative
grant for her multi-media collage “The Kitchen is Closed Startin'
Sunday”. For her produced play “Whispers Want to Holler,” Marta
collaborated with noted jazz saxophonist Billy Harper. She has
also worked as a freelance dramaturg for theater productions in
New York City, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Memphis, and Louisville. She
is the author of Staging Migrations toward an American West: From
Ida B. Wells to Rhodessa Jones published by University Press of
Colorado. She appeared on TEDx at the Tribeca Performing
Arts Center in 2015 and has lectured in Xiamen University in
China, the National Parks Services African Burial Ground in NY
and at the Rosie the Riveter Museum in Richmond, CA. In 2014, The
Network Journal, which recognizes "Black women leaders and
influencers in every field," selected Marta as one of their "25
Influential Black Women in Business." This storyteller and
Washington, DC native, is a graduate of the Duke Ellington School
of the Arts (DESA), where she studied Literary & Media Arts.
DESA changed her life. She studied African American Studies at
the University of Pittsburgh (BA) and Yale University (MA). Marta
received her PhD from Northwestern University and is a full
professor in African American Studies at New York City College of
Technology-CUNY. She helped curate 400 Years of Inequality:
Contributions from the Diaspora at Carnegie Hall's Weill Music
Institute. Her feature length documentary film LITTLE SALLIE
WALKER, about Black women and girls, is currently in
post-production and has received recognition from Women Make
Movies, NY State Council on the Arts, Working Films Impact
Kickstart. She is a member of Brown Girls Doc Mafia and the Black
Theatre Network. Marta is the mother of a daughter (at an
independent school).