Anna Almore

Anna Almore comes to the University of Michigan after working alongside educators and students in the Bronx, the Rio Grande Valley, and the South Dakota lands of the Sicungu, Oglala and Hunkpapa Lakota. This experience coupled with her ancestral inheritance compels her to explore the pedagogies required for teachers and students to heal from their shared oppressions—and researching questions such as: how can our approach to culturally sustaining pedagogies transcend the binaries and assumptions that intentionally and unintentionally reinforce power dynamics in our country, especially along the lines of race and gender? How do we create the pedagogies required to interrogate settler colonialism and enlist diverse teachers and students in the process? And how do we fight the geographic isolation that alienates and sometimes erase rural educators of color working towards a freer world?