Entries by Aakanksha Gupta
Spotlight: Brenda Ávila-Hanna, New Day Films
We recently had the chance to speak with Brenda Ávila-Hanna, an award-winning filmmaker and educator. Born and raised in Mexico City, she creates films that focus on transnational stories between Latin America and the U.S. Brenda is currently a Fellow for the National Minority Consortia Lab through LPB and a recipient of Bay Area’s Video […]
Educator Spotlight: Denzil Mohammed, Immigrant Learning Center
by Aakanksha Gupta We live in an era of mass migration — an era of 1 billion people on the move, 258 million living outside of their native countries and 68.5 million displaced people in the world. This goes beyond a recent phenomenon, as migration has been a fundamental part of our shared history as […]
Essential Resources from Share My Lesson Webinar (3.14.19)
by Adam Strom & Aakanksha Gupta Today in the United States, there are 18 million children under the age of 18 who are children of immigrants or immigrants themselves—26% of the school-aged population. These numbers echo across the world. Children of migration come into school eager to learn and thrive. Yet because of existing policy […]