ABSTRACT
Many university scholars and tenured faculty act as if nothing connects them to public schools, where you spent twenty years teaching. This experience seems to have played a significant role in your self-development, self-actualization, and self-empowerment as an artist and activist. I chose to do work in the public schools because I recognized that all of the critical thinking we do in the university has little meaning for many people of color if it does not begin in the earlier stages of our educational development.
