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OH HAI

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My name is Alex (she/her) & I am a doctoral candidate at Indiana University in the Departments of Curriculum and Instruction and Gender Studies. Starting in August, I will start applying to jobs at universities and institutions outside of the Midwest and finishing my dissertation. Prior to this, I was a bilingual public school teacher in Chicago (union delegate during the Chicago Teacher's Strike wut wut). I have a Master's Degree in Education and a B.A. in Spanish, English, and Italian.  Over the course of the past fifteen years, I've increasingly worked on a variety of justice-oriented campaigns, from disability justice to immigration reform to Black Lives Matter to prison abolition to union organizing to queer liberation. I am also a spoken word poet (featured on Button Poetry), a drag performer, and a community organizer in Bloomington. During the summer, you can catch me eating pizza and bartending at The Back Door. Here is a photograph my friend, Brick Daniel Ky...
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Reflection

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The GALACTIC program was fast-paced, rigorous, and moving.  The best part of the week was being able to form deeper and deeper relationships with the scholars in our group -- we had a dynamic, talented, positive, and hard-working set of young people who consistently demonstrated an ability to be open-minded, engage in productive conversations, and support each other through difficulty. And they were so funny! Much charm! A handful of students asked for my contact information, so I hope they keep in touch in the future. Personal Reflections: In terms of Sara and my lessons and facilitation, there were things that went well and things that didn't go well. We struggled all week with timing issues, and I don't think we ever really got the hang of anticipating how long a particular activity would last, or knowing how much time students needed to discuss the questions we posed. Sara's headlines activity on the second day, where she introduced students to the global nature of ...
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OH HI HEY HELLO

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My name is Alex & I am a doctoral candidate at Indiana University in the Departments of Curriculum and Instruction and Gender Studies. Prior to this gig I was a bilingual teacher in Chicago Public Schools (union delegate during the Chicago Teacher's Strike wut wut) and prior to THAT I had a brief run as an intern at The Center for Action and Contemplation in Albuquerque, New Mexico (yes, that's a fancy way of saying we meditated a lot) and prior to that I worked at a tuition-free Catholic school in San Francisco's Tenderloin District as a reading intervention specialist, theatre/choir director, and summer school teacher and prior to THAT I was graduating from IU with a B.A. in Spanish, English, and Italian and whoa prior to THAT I was skipping class to eat entire balls of mozzarella & drink wine in Giardini Margherita in Bologna, Italy. Prior to that, nobody cares.  Over the course of the past fifteen years, I've shed my Catholic ideology if not my love of mar...
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