
Jamila Lyiscott, PhD
@jamila_lyiscott
I help communities unleash the power of Black language & culture to change the world. Isaiah 58: 6-8 (NIV) Poet | Professor | Viral TED speaker | Author
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Hey folks, happy Sunday! We are ONE WEEK away from #RESI2023! We’re still highlighting our amazing speakers all week long, kicking this week off with the inspiring Jamila Lyiscott, PhD, writer and Professor of Social Justice education at UMass Amherst 👏🏾




Nasreen Al Omari Jamila Lyiscott, PhD We are the table! I love this! As educators, it can be such a powerful message if we lead with that attitude - you are modeling the ability to be unapologetically yourself to your students! How often do they receive that encouragement? #EDLR5402





Dear Teacher, Before you teach us to splinter our souls For a seat at the table Teach us to splinter our hands As carpenters of our own justice How dare you engorge us With this feast of feeble freedoms While our appetites remain An unquenched Black whole —Jamila Lyiscott, PhD

"It is our responsibility to speak boldly where our ancestors had to whisper." Jamila Lyiscott, PhD