Watch our CEO, Sharhonda Bossier, discuss EdLoC's evolved strategy with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Maria Hinojosa!
The equity we hope education can foster is only possible if we confront and address the social and economic challenges that have disproportionately impacted communities of color since this nation was founded.
In this fireside chat, Sharhonda Bossier and Maria Hinojosa explore EdLoC’s evolved vision and more holistic approach to dismantling systemic barriers to the academic and economic success of young people of color.
See Sharhonda and Maria share the connections between EdLoC's work and their own personal journeys, obstacles and all, to becoming the leaders they are today.
Watch them delve into the policy and culture tensions we're battling together -- from Supreme Court overreach to immigration, religion, school activism, and more.
The conversation starts at the 8:18 mark
The event was held at the Fund for the City of New York and was hosted by Lisette Nieves, President of the Fund and Greg Gunn, EdLoC Board Chair and Co-founder of Lingo Ventures.
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Maria Hinojosa adapts her New York Times bestselling adult memoir for young readers.
Available August 30, 2022
In ONCE I WAS YOU: Finding My Voice and Passing the Mic, Maria Hinojosa combines stories from her life, beginning with her family’s harrowing experience of immigration, with truths about the United States’s long and complicated relationship with the people who cross its borders, by choice or by force. Funny, frank, and thought-provoking, Maria’s voice is one you will want to listen to again and again.
ABOUT MARIA
Maria Hinojosa dreamt of a space where she could create independent, multimedia journalism that explores and gives a critical voice to the diverse American experience. She made that dream a reality in 2010 when she created Futuro Media, an independent, non-profit newsroom based in Harlem, NYC, with the mission to create multimedia content from a POC perspective. As Anchor and Executive Producer of the Peabody Award-winning show Latino USA, distributed by PRX, and Co-Host of Futuro Media’s award-winning political podcast In The Thick, Hinojosa has informed millions about the changing cultural and political landscape in America and abroad.
