Jamila Lyiscott recognized as Spotlight Scholar
Jamila Lyiscott, assistant professor of social justice education, is being recognized as a 2019-20 UMass Amherst Spotlight Scholar.
Growing up as a first-generation American in a working-class neighborhood in Brooklyn, Lyiscott learned how to navigate the contrasts between her family鈥檚 Caribbean background and an educational system that demanded assimilation.
鈥淚 was an A-student only because I knew how to do school,鈥 recalls Lyiscott, now an assistant professor of social justice education in the UMass Amherst College of Education, a senior research fellow at Columbia University鈥檚 Teacher鈥檚 College, and a nationally renowned spoken word artist.
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