After this webinar, participants will be able to:
- Develop an identity-conscious practice when working with young people
- Consider ‘case studies’ and engage in discussions around best practices for support
- Understand strategies to build engagement and learning for all students, in particular students of color
- Add to a collective ‘toolkit’ of knowledge and walk away with practical resources
Jennifer De Leon is the award-winning author of the Young Adult (YA) novels, Borderless, featured on the TODAY show, and Don’t Ask Me Where I’m From. Jenn is also the author of White Space: Essays on Culture, Race, & Writing, which won the Juniper Prize from the University of Massachusetts Press.
Jenn is the editor of Wise Latinas: Writers on Higher Education, an International Latino Book Award-winning anthology. As an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Framingham State University and faculty member in the Creative Writing & Literature Master Program at Harvard University, she has published prose in over a dozen literary journals, including Ploughshares, Iowa Review, and Michigan Quarterly Review. She is also a contributor for NPR. Jenn is the founder of Story Bridge, a program that aims to bring people together from all walks of life to shape, share, and hear each other’s unique stories. She lives outside the Boston area with her husband and two sons.