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From Surviving to Thriving through Racial Justice: A Mother & Daughter Conversation in Five Vignettes—V. Becoming the Teacher I Needed

December 2020
Mila González & Taucia González

Mila describes how she hopes to continue her work as she prepares to enter college as an education major. She also reflects on the teachers that through her lifelines along the way as she struggled through school.

(music: Latinoamérica [feat Totó la Momposina, Susana Baca & María Rita] by Calle 13)

This Equity Spotlight Vodcast was inspired by the important, yet under-recognized work, many youth are actively engaged in to create better school systems. This vodcast is structured into a series of five vignettes that share glimpses into critical moments and experiences that shaped and lead one high school student, Mila González, to racial justice work. They are structured in vignettes so that they can be used as connected stories, or independently.

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