Jennifer is introduced by Kopkind President JoAnn Wypijewski
From kopkind.org
"Apart at the Seams: Race, Class and the War over Public Education (a farce)"
As we open the 15th summer for Kopkind's retreat/seminar for journalists and activists, we're inviting back someone who was with us at the very first camp in 1999 and whose work since has been inspired by the project's dual commitment to storytelling and social movements.
After working in radio and print, as a freelancer, satirical commentator and editor of union newspapers, Jennifer started Little House Communications, helping communities, unions and grassroots organizations use media in their action campaigns. For the past few years she has worked with groups involved in the struggle over public schools. "The terrain of this fight is the schools, but the issue is really the internal borders separating the rich from the poor," she says. "It's the death of a vision of equity concealed in the language of reform, and increasingly in a hijacked language of civil rights. How did we decide that to 'succeed' Jamal has to go to an all-black school with all-white teachers run by a for-profit company whose board is made up of all-white hedge fund managers?"
Her talk will explore the cruel farce of what she calls "achievement gaptivism".
