Event: Saturday July 9th, 2pm, El Taller Second Floor

Our students are joyful, beautiful, powerful, and resilient! What we teach them is especially important for them to make sense of their lived realities.

About Lopena Escoto Germán

A forever Lancer, Lorena is a two time nationally awarded Dominican American educator focused on anti racist and anti bias education. She's been featured in the New York Times, NPR, PBS, Rethinking Schools, EdWeek, Learning for Justice Magazine, and more. She published The Anti Racist Teacher: Reading Instruction Workbook, and Textured Teaching: A Framework for Culturally Sustaining Practices about curriculum & lesson development focused on social justice. She's a co-founder of #DisruptTexts and Multicultural Classroom. Lorena is also the Chair of NCTE's Committee Against Racism and Bias in the Teaching of English. She lives in Tampa, Florida where she is a mami and wife- two of her most important roles