Prior to that represented several progressive non-profits as a Digital Account Executive, creating fundraising strategies and increasing their outreach. Most recently Dumont worked a the Digital Manager for the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons, guiding the organization through the expansion of its digital footprint. from Xavier Universityĭumont’s career in digital strategy began over fifteen years ago and has included, marketing and communications outreach, website design/development, fundraising, and engagement strategies for a variety of national and international organizations. Attending the local public high school, he was actively involved in athletics and community projects which paved his way to attend and graduate with a B.A.
Most recently, she managed the Teaching Hard History initiative for the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Teaching Tolerance project and led an interdisciplinary team that created the world’s first K-12 framework for teaching the twin histories of slavery and settler colonialism in what is currently known as the United States.ĭumont grew up in central Virginia and comes from a family with a rich history of working as educators and social activist. She has worked as an independent research and evaluation consultant for most of her life, working with large and small data sets to investigate questions of equity with advanced research methodology. in Educational Studies from Claremont Graduate University with twin emphases in educational policy and research methods. This spurred her lifelong interest to think critically about effective pedagogy, how it is measured, and who gets to decide what counts as evidence. In high school, college, and graduate school she participated actively in intercollegiate policy debate as a competitor, coach and educator – in 1992, she was only the second woman to win the college national debate championship.įor the next 20 years, she traveled the world building debate programs across the United States and in dozens of countries, training thousands of teachers, writing a dozen books and teaching at several universities. She is currently writing her dissertation about educator activism. from the University of Central Florida in Education Leadership. from Florida Atlantic University in Multicultural Education and an M.A. in journalism from the University of Florida and holds an M.Ed.
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She believes community, learning, and dialogue are essential to personal and professional growth, and that education is a vehicle for social change. In response she founded #ClearTheAir, a platform for educators to learn about the intersections of history, racism, and education. In December 2016, Val recognized a silence in the education community regarding issues of race, and a gap in learning opportunities for educators. She was named district teacher of the year (2013) and was honored by the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans in Teacher’s Edition (2015).
Val has spent 14 years in public K-12 and higher education as a teacher, instructional coach, district administrator and professional learning specialist. She most recently served as professional development manager for Teaching Tolerance where she designed, facilitated, and evaluated antibias and antiracist professional learning for educators around the country. Val comes from a proud family of educators and is honored to carry on the tradition. in American History from the New York University Graduate School of Liberal Arts. from The New School University and an M.A. At CARE, her job is to support educators as they build an antiracist future for all our children. Maureen believes that education shapes who we are and can be a powerful means to advance racial justice. Under Maureen’s leadership at SPLC, Teaching Tolerance crafted the Social Justice Standards, launched Teaching the Movement and Teaching Hard History, and issued reports describing the negative impact of political rhetoric on schools.
history for 18 years before leaving the classroom to lead education programs at Newsweek magazine, Scholastic, and the Southern Poverty Law Center. If that is not practical, she says, we all still need to learn about others’ lived experiences and diverse perspectives.ĭrawn to social justice by her own teachers, Maureen’s career has reflected the belief that the purpose of education is to make the world better. The move tested one of her lifelong beliefs: That every American should live in New York, and that every New Yorker should live somewhere else, for at least a year. Maureen is a New York City native whose career led her to Montgomery, Alabama.
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