Diary of a Social Worker: Making Mental Health for Students a Priority During a Pandemic
Mobile mental health specialist Esther Kwak is adjusting to working from home while delivering urgent mental health services to Houston area students.
Paula Ann Solis
Bringing Diversity and Student Stories to Bookshelves
Jennifer De Leon (Bay Area ’02) says not every reader will get the references in her novel featuring a Latinx heroine—and that's fine by her. She's decentering whiteness and decolonizing shelves.
When Parents Won't Give Up
A group of Minneapolis parents with roots in Somalia are getting a distinctly American lesson in how education systems work, and just how much strategizing and speaking out it takes to be heard.
Leah Fabel
Nina Robinson
‘Resilient and Thriving’: What Immigrants Bring to Education
In honor of Immigrant Heritage Month, Teach For America speaks with three alumni in the immigrant community about their time in the classroom and how they leverage their identities in their careers of impact to fight for educational equity.
The TFA Editorial Team
Undocumented in Color
Atlanta Artist Yehimi Cambrón (Metro Atlanta ’15) brings to life the complexities of the immigrant experience through murals that make this issue, and the people at the heart of this issue, unavoidable.
A Teacher’s Future Hangs on a Supreme Court Case
While he waits for the U.S. Supreme Court to rule on Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), a teacher serenades his community.
Faviola Leyva
Video Producer
Help is Here to Know and Protect the Rights of Immigrant Students
TFA Social Innovation award-winner Vanessa Luna, co-founder of ImmSchools is leading an effort to provide educators the resources they need to know and protect the rights of immigrant students and families.
Susan Brenna
Finding Power in Art
For many people, immigration status—whether their own or their families’—can be a source of intense fear and anxiety. In Arizona, a nonprofit seeks to harness and heal those painful lived experiences.
At this High School, Immigrant Students Are Out to Smash Your Expectations
With Students’ Futures on the Line, These Teachers are Leading In Unexpected Ways
For immigrant students, it is a time of unease and uncertainty, but these teachers are right where students need them to be – beside them, supporting them.