Literacy justice, social-emotional learning, and intergenerational healing.

“Jail is the first place where I read a book.”

Last week, I returned to my job at a youth jail with fresh eyes and a broken heart. After a 3 week break, I felt totally re-sensitized to the nightmare: the US locks up more people per capita than almost any nation, and many of those people are children.

Unbuild walls with your kids

Hey, reader. I appreciate you being here, and I know you have a thousand other things to do, so I’ll try to keep this short. Read (or skim) on to learn about my work unbuilding walls - from teaching and learning with incarcerated kids, to teaching and learning with Tucson

Dream through collapse, and give incarcerated youth the gift of literacy.

What are your dreams? Do you have dreams that you have forgotten? Dreams you've let go? Dreams you have deferred? Dreams that you are nurturing, incubating, and caring for?