People
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Pamela Mary Schmidt
Pamela Mary Schmidt is an English special education teacher at Freeport High School in New York and one of the original curriculum writers for Speak Truth to Power. She holds an M.A. in special education from Dowling College and a B.A. in English education from LIU Post College. Schmidt is an ongoing participant in the…
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Michelle Haddix
Michelle Haddix is an American history teacher at Indianapolis Classical Schools in Indiana and has led her school’s commitment to engaging in an urban community through the Speak Truth to Power curriculum. Since she began implementing the STTP curriculum into her classroom, Haddix has worked with her students to develop the school’s first Black Cultural…
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Chris Buckley
Chris Buckley has been involved with RFK Human Rights as a STTP lead educator for the past several years. He participated in one of the early Teacher Training Workshops held in D.C. and now liaises with teachers in Connecticut and New York. The STTP curriculum has been a great addition to his classroom, and he…
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Adam Leach, Ed.D.
Adam Leach, Ed.D., is currently a school counselor at Bangor High School in Maine. He has been an educator for 31 years, wearing the cap of history teacher, school counselor, soccer coach and union president during that time. He is excited to be a part of the Bangor-RFK Partnership that has brought opportunities for the…
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Prescott Seraydarian
Prescott Seraydarian is a film and media literacy teacher at George School in Newtown, PA, where he also serves as a dorm parent and ultimate frisbee coach. Prescott is also an award-winning filmmaker and author of the middle grade graphic novel series The Pathfinders Society published by Penguin. As a film and media teacher, and…
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Meredith Baldi
Meredith Baldi is a history, politics, and media literacy teacher, as well as the service-learning coordinator at George School in Newtown, PA. She is also the faculty sponsor of the student Amnesty International club. Generally, in her work at George School, her focus is on helping students understand the world around them and working with…
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Meredith Towne
Meredith Towne is a dynamic educator of English and Theatre Arts at the Academy for Software Engineering in New York City who has harnessed the power of storytelling to ignite empathy, inspire change, and promote human rights awareness among her students and the wider community. With a passion for literature, social justice, and the art…
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Morgan Appel
Morgan Appel is Assistant Dean for Education and Community Outreach (ECO) at the Division of Extended Studies at UC San Diego, overseeing a diverse array of programming for PK-post retirement, including opportunities for students, practitioners, administrators, parents, and community stakeholders across the globe. He previously served as Director of Education Programs at UC Irvine’s Division…
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Andrew Beiter
Andrew Beiter is an 8th grade American history teacher at Springville Middle School, outside of Buffalo, New York. He is also the director of the Summer Institute for Human Rights of Buffalo, a regional education coordinator for the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, and the board president for the Educators’ Institute for Human Rights, an organization…
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Linda Sarsour
Linda Sarsour was born in 1980 in Brooklyn, New York, the eldest of seven children of Palestinian immigrants. Her father owned a small market in the Crown Heights neighborhood—he called it Linda’s. She entered an arranged marriage at age 17 and had three children by the time she was in her mid-20s. But motherhood did…
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Keith Ellison
In 1963, Keith Ellison was born to a Catholic family in Detroit, Michigan, the third of five sons. From a young age, he was greatly influenced by his family’s involvement in the civil rights movement, including his grandfather’s work as a member of the NAACP in Louisiana. After graduating from Wayne State University with a…
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Dean Obeidallah
Born in New Jersey, Obeidallah is the son of a Palestinian father and a Sicilian mother—an atypical upbringing that has fueled his comedy-filled life. And he has been using his wit and wisdom to educate and entertain ever since. A former attorney, he’s the host of SiriusXM radio’s “The Dean Obeidallah Show,” making him the…
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