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Kevin Brown is a senior at Jones College Prep High School. He was born in Chicago and has lived there all his life. Kevin tries to stay politically active, participating at various clubs and events in and out of his school that work to engage students and create discussions. Otherwise, Kevin loves to stay physically active, exploring vegetarian food options, and keeping up-to-date with the world around him. |
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Charles M. Payne teaches African-American studies, history and sociology at Duke University. His areas of research interest include urban education, social inequality, social change and modern African-American history. He is the author of, “Getting What We Ask For: The Ambiguity of Success and Failure In Urban Education” (1984) and “I’ve Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement” (1995). The latter has won awards from the Southern Regional Council, Choice Magazine, the Simon Wisenthal Center and the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in North America. He is co-author of, “Debating the Civil Rights Movement” (1999) and co-editor of, “Time Longer Than Rope: A Century of African American Activism, 1850 -1950” (2003). Currently, he is finishing, “So Much Reform, So Little Change” (forthcoming, Harvard Education Publishing Group), a book which is concerned with what we have learned in the last decade or so about what it takes to create large scale improvement in urban districts. He is also in the process of co-editing two anthologies, “Teach Freedom: The African American Tradition of Education For Liberation” (forthcoming, Teachers College Press) and “Holding Back the Ocean with a Broom: Implementing Change in Urban Schools .” |
Daisy Zamora is currently a student at University of Illinois at Chicago, majoring in Latin American & Latino studies. She plans to utilize her degree to work with non profits and the organizing field. She is a Brighton Park Neighborhood Council board member, as well as a board member for Females United for Action (FUFA). Daisy’s memberships include the Chicago Network of Women Building Communities.
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Kristiana Zerom is an alumnus of Jones College Prep. She has worked for almost four years at different branches within the Chicago Public Library system. Over those four years, she worked in conjunction with library personnel to implement literacy programs for children and helped start an annual poetry slam which the library hosts. She is currently working towards her Bachelor’s in International Business at Loyola University. |