Sowing Seeds - Cooperative Grassroots Activism

Grassroots activism in education is responsible for birthing the movements that gave us Brown v. Board and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and is now responsible for the recent national focus on standardized testing, racial disparities in student discipline, school closures, and other pressing issues.

My guest, Daniel del Pielago, is an Education Organizer for Empower DC in Washington, D.C. He has dedicated his life to grassroots activism in educating young people, particularly young people in and from under-resourced communities. He will talk to us about how he lives what he wants to see and how he works cooperatively with systems to promote innovative change for children.

Host, Allison R. Brown, is a civil rights attorney and owner of Allison Brown Consulting (ABC).