{"id":1143,"date":"2021-10-12T05:20:59","date_gmt":"2021-10-12T09:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/?p=1143"},"modified":"2021-10-12T06:02:01","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T10:02:01","slug":"61-seeing-hope-and-potential-in-anti-racism-work-with-jennifer-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/2021\/10\/12\/61-seeing-hope-and-potential-in-anti-racism-work-with-jennifer-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"61. Seeing hope and potential in anti-racism work with Jennifer Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How might we embrace both the incrementalism and urgency of anti-racism growth in all of our schools? Today I talk with the amazing Jennifer Grant on the show.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I have wanted to interview Jennifer pretty much since I met her, so now that she has been working in the realm of education since May, I have a much better excuse to talk to her than simply because I liked her and wanted to pick her brain. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jennifer Grant is the director of the<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.georgebrown.ca\/about\/anti-racism-equity-and-human-rights-services\"><b>Office of Anti-Racism, Equity and Human Rights Services<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at George Brown College in Toronto and has a background in Child Youth Care.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We talk in this episode about both the incrementalism <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the urgency of institutional change, how she manages such a big portfolio, and the realities of anti-racism in her school context. Jennifer\u2019s approach to this work is so deeply relational and full of hope. Listening back to this conversation, this really stands out to me as so needed and necessary. Jennifer is a whip smart, compassionate, and highly effective human that blew my mind more than once during this conversation. You really have to keep listening for Jennifer\u2019s mic drop moment when she explains how having more diversity around the table doesn\u2019t necessarily make the work of anti-racism any easier.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I loved getting to talk to Jennifer and I know you will get so much out of this conversation. Let\u2019s get right to it, please welcome to the show, Jennifer Grant.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Things mentioned in this show:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.georgebrown.ca\/about\/anti-racism-equity-and-human-rights-services\/anti-racism\">Anti-Racism at George Brown<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.speakoutnow.org\/speaker\/wise-tim\">Tim Wise<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt10574558\/\">Midnight Mass<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How might we embrace both the incrementalism and urgency of anti-racism growth in all of our schools? Today I talk with the amazing Jennifer Grant on the show.\u00a0 I have wanted to interview Jennifer pretty much since I met her, so now that she has been working in the realm of education since May, I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/2021\/10\/12\/61-seeing-hope-and-potential-in-anti-racism-work-with-jennifer-grant\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;61. 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