I am an educator, scholar and activist committed to equity and racial justice in the service of liberatory education. I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. My research explores anti-racist and decolonial approaches to leadership in schools, communities, and school districts. As a teacher, researcher, speaker, and community activist, I am committed to bridging the gaps between communities, classrooms, school districts and the academy, to re/imagine emancipatory possibilities for education.
Becoming a facilitator with the Center for Courage and Renewal has been a heart calling for 2 decades, as I am drawn to fostering communal spaces at the intersections of contemplative practice and social justice. The orientations of this work continue to undo me as a human and an educator in life-giving ways. You can learn more about my work at https://www.yorku.ca/edu/
"But between us, interpersonally, relationally, true innocence is more evasive. Often that determination becomes the focal point of our efforts instead of tending to the pain, instead of protecting who and what needs protection, instead of all and any parties having space to learn and transform. What if we could see ourselves less as innocent, but as harmed and harming, more or less honest, more or less able to be conscious when triggered, more or less manipulative, more or less willing to take responsibility for our own change, more or less caught in patterns. Would we be better able to create and respect boundaries between each other? Would we be more likely to interrupt our own violence if we didn’t insist on our innocence and the accompanying justifications for our actions? Could we let the word have meaning again? Allowing ourselves to pay real attention to places where what we’re told is collateral are people, families, communities, life. Can we ween ourselves off of the myth of purity, of innocence embedded in our supremacist and exceptionalist structures? Can we tolerate knowing ourselves?"
Prentis Hemphill - https://prentishemphill.com/selectwritings/2019/7/5/letting-go-of-innocence
bell hooks
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