Event

Join the Beyond Schools Lab's newest series and collaborative learning space, the Colloquium on Race, Education and Social Transformation (CREST)! This monthly convening is in person on the South Side of Chicago. The location is ADA accessible and masks are requested. Visit our website to stay connected!

Our inaugural session will feature a book talk by Dr. Bettina Love, the William F. Russell Professor at Teachers College, Columbia University and the bestselling author of We Want To Do More Than Survive. In 2022, the Kennedy Center named Dr. Love one of the Next 50 Leaders making the world more inspired, inclusive, and compassionate. A co-founder of the Abolitionist Teaching Network (ATN), whose mission is to develop and support teachers and parents fighting injustice within their schools and communities, they have granted over $250,000 to abolitionists around the country. She is also a founding member of the Task Force that launched the program In Her Hands, distributing more than $15 million to Black women living in Georgia. In Her Hands is one of the largest guaranteed income pilot programs in the U.S. You can preorder her new book Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal wherever books are sold.

The first 45 attendees will receive a copy of Dr. Love's new book!