PhD student 🫩 | teacher coach 🍎 | marathoner x 11 | author x 8 | adjunct professor | donut connoisseur

Minneapolis, Minnesota
Joined September 2013
How many Black lives could have been saved if police departments had the de-escalation skills of special education teachers, social workers, or mental health professionals?
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Every single day, teachers take pure chaos and turn it into something meaningful. That is real power.
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Being a teacher isn't just one job. It's 100,000 little jobs.
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You know you're old when your child's teacher used to be one of your students 😭😭😭
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Every single day, teachers take pure chaos and turn it into something meaningful. That is real power.
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If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive. — Audre Lorde
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We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning. — Jean Baudrillard
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The crime of authority is to make the just man feel guilty. — J. M. Coetzee
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There is nothing new under the sun... behold, all is vanity and a chasing after the wind. — Ecclesiastes
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Martin Odima Jr. retweeted
Only in a PhD program do you write a paper to prepare for another paper to prepare for another paper. 😵‍💫
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Only in a PhD program do you write a paper to prepare for another paper to prepare for another paper. 😵‍💫
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Just watched the latest episode of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, and in my opinion, the show has reached god-tier status across the entire GOT series 😭 #hbo
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Martin Odima Jr. retweeted
The trauma in our community has been pervasive, physiological, and long lasting. Even if ICE agents leave Minnesota, families and schools will live with the consequences of these actions long after the headlines move on.
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The Trump administration owes Minnesota reparations for the damage it caused.
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The trauma in our community has been pervasive, physiological, and long lasting. Even if ICE agents leave Minnesota, families and schools will live with the consequences of these actions long after the headlines move on.
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The trauma in our community has been pervasive, physiological, and long lasting. Even if ICE agents actually leave Minnesota, we will still be left to reckon with the harm, fear, and deep disruption these executive actions have caused for families and schools.
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The mistake in all of our thinking is that we each believe ourselves to be an independent entity. While in reality, we're all just fractions of an infinite whole.
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Minnesota schools should sue the Trump administration over ICE enforcement that forces school closures and causes learning loss.
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The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction no longer exists. — Hannah Arendt
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