Ithaca College

Friday May 8, 2020 11 AM in Eastern Standard Time (US and Canada)

https://ithaca.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_NM9qG_deQ-GnNyq2IYMNwA

Speakers:

Dr. Nia Nunn, Associate Professor, Education

Mariah Allaire ‘13, middle school teacher, West Buffalo Charter School, Buffalo, New York

Jeff Selingo ’95, New York Times bestselling author, Washington Post columnist, higher education strategist

Moderated by Dr. Jonathan Ablard, Associate Professor, History 

In partnership with the Ithaca College Honors program, join our faculty and alumni experts in our latest Rapid Response Salon conversation that focuses on education, students, and teaching around the COVID-19 pandemic. Hear their insights in an engaging live format meant to provide expert commentary.

Dr. Nia Nunn is Associate Professor in the Department of Education at Ithaca College. She teaches and researches in the areas of Black Girl liberation, Black Feminist methodology/pedagogy, educational psychology, and classroom community development. She is a performer-scholar-mother-activist, and the President of the Board of Directors of the Southside Community Center in Ithaca, New York. She has expertise as a teacher, teacher trainer, school psychologist, and director of programs designed to empower and uplift the voices of young people, particularly Black women and girls.

Mariah Allaire ’13 is a middle school teacher at West Buffalo Charter School in Buffalo, New York. She spent a year as an ABLE Americorps member in the Buffalo Public Schools. She earned her Master’s degree in Education in 2017 from SUNY Buffalo State College (BSC). In the Fall 2019, she participated in a semester-long training in story-based learning with the Anne Frank Project at BSC emphasizing relationship building and student-first classroom experiences. Teaching remotely since March 17th COVID-19 crisis, she continues to promote meaningful engagement, while supporting social-emotional student needs during these unprecedented times.

Jeff Selingo ’95 has written about higher education for two decades. He is the author of two New York Times bestsellers, College (Un)Bound and There Is Life After College. He is a contributor to The Atlantic and the Washington Post, and a special advisor at Arizona State University. He is also a visiting scholar at Georgia Tech’s Center for 21st Century Universities. His next book, Who Gets In & Why: A Year Inside College Admissions, will be published by Simon & Schuster in September. He received a master’s degree from the Johns Hopkins University.