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Rethinking Access: Lessons from Haben Girma on Global Accessibility Awareness Day

Rethinking Access: Lessons from Haben Girma on Global Accessibility Awareness Day

Over four years ago, when first telling our families that our youngest daughter was hard of hearing at three months old, we were met with solemn condolences, panic, and denial—feelings of deep unease....

May 15, 2025

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Art of Living Collective, Andrea Patterson

Call Your Mother by her Name

“Happy Birthday Andrea!” is what my cake read inside the pandemical year of 2020. Though it was baked with love in my home by my daughters, that year Mom was replaced with my name. My actual name. I k...

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May 9, 2025

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Volcano Awareness and Other Life Lessons

Katherine M. Schlatter

Volcano Awareness and Other Life Lessons

We had just reached the top of Mount Etna, and the wind whipping around our feet and legs made the walk seem momentarily impossible. Five minutes into the short hike, it suddenly felt unbearably cold....

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May 7, 2025

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TinkerTell for Schools has launched and is taking off!

Katherine M. Schlatter

TinkerTell for Schools has launched and is taking off!

When I agreed to take the co-founder and Chief Learning Officer role at TinkerTell, I was already enamored by the easy-to-use "grandparent-proof" personalized story creation app for children (you can ...

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Apr 24, 2025

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Ashley Causey-Golden

Reconnecting with Earth and Community for Earth Day

ID: The heads and feet of young Black children in an outdoor setting looking down at emerging plants. As the first tentative buds push through winter-hardened soil and birdsong returns to fill our mor...

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Apr 22, 2025

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A Love Letter to Libraries

A Love Letter to Libraries

ID: Library shelves filled with books line the sides while a desk and two red chairs are the focal point. After becoming a mother, I developed a renewed sense of appreciation for libraries, for more t...

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Apr 17, 2025

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Art of Living Collective, Andrea Patterson

Women Who Come from Women

ID: Three year old Andrea wearing her grandmother’s glasses and barrettes, smiling while sitting in the lap of her grandmother. This winter was frigidly cold, and as March arrived it took me a while t...

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Mar 29, 2025

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The Importance of Community: A Review of the film My Disability Roadmap

The Importance of Community: A Review of the film My Disability Roadmap

ID: Two high school students in their formal prom clothing in front of a crowd of people. The White girl on the left is wearing a pink gown and a big smile and the boy on the right, Samuel,is in a pur...

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Mar 25, 2025

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Andrea Patterson & Nikita Lai Jing Tse

The Art of Love

Photo credit: Barbara Earl Thomas photographedLawrence and Gwendolyn Knight ID: A zoomed in photograph of an older black couple posing for a portrait. The man on the left is wearing an orange turtlene...

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Feb 14, 2025

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Art of Living Collective, Andrea Patterson

Black History Month: Origins and Journeys

Lawrence, Jacob. (Between 1940 and 1941).During World War I there was a great migration north by southern Negroes[Painting]. Image Source ID: A black and white painting of a crowd in motion wearing 4...

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Feb 7, 2025

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Ashley Causey-Golden

Indigenous Wisdom: Supporting Students' Collective Healing During the California Wildfires

ID: Four people rowing in a canoe on a body of water in the right half of the image. The background depicts an orange sunset and mountains. As California grapples with devastating wildfires affecting ...

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Jan 23, 2025

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Art of Living Collective, Andrea Patterson

Youth in our Communities on MLK Day

ID: A black and white photo of a group of black people holding signs, walking by buses and a fence wearing 1960s style clothing. While celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) Day I think of all of th...

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Jan 20, 2025

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