Dr. Beverly-Jean M. Daniel: We Were Not Built To Break

About this episode

Dr. Beverly-Jean Daniel discusses her experiences with race and education after migrating from Trinidad and Tobago.

One careless “you can’t” can stick to a young person for years, but it can also light a fuse. We’re joined by Dr. Beverly-Jean Daniel, scholar, educator, and advocate whose work spans more than 35 years at the intersection of race, equity, and urban education. She shares what it was like migrating from Trinidad and Tobago at 16 and hearing, for the first time, that her goals were unrealistic, not because of grades, but because of who she was. The heartbeat of her book, We Were No...

People in this episode

Host: Ellington Brown

Guest: Dr. Beverly-Jean M. Daniel

Topics covered

• race
• equity
• urban education
• migration
• self-advocacy

Keywords

• race
• equity
• urban education
• migration
• self-advocacy
• youth empowerment
• realistic goals

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Trinidad and Tobago

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