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EDIJ Students Work Toward Education Justice

Students in the EDIJ community-based learning course, EDIJ 2951 Education, Equity, and Advocacy, connect academic inquiry with educational justice work, making a real-world impact across Washington DC. Students collaborate with organizations such as CARE Anacostia, EmpowerDC, the Ward 5 Education Equity Committee, and the Washington Teachers Union. Students contributed to projects shaped by community needs and priorities. One student group created a guide for aspiring first-generation college students.

EDIJ Students Explore the Impact of Education Policy

EDIJ hosted Zoie Saunders, M.Ed., Vermont’s Secretary of Education, to explore significant education policy shifts in the state’s history. Secretary Saunders discussed how state policy governing school funding can be used as a tool for educational equity and how challenges and tensions driving policy reform impact those efforts.

Spotlight: EDIJ Alumni

EDIJ hosted an alumni panel titled “Education, Joy, & the Pursuit of Justice.” Participating were: Kathleen Coughlin (’17), an analyst at the DC OSSE in the Office of Research, Analysis, and Reporting; Esther Owolabi (‘15), the Education Partnerships Lead at Google; Allie Liotta (‘15), Director of Learning and Development for CommonLit, a nonprofit EdTech company; and Kelly Skeen (‘18), Chief Curator of Education at the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson, WY.