Education System v. Cultural Competence
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Gracia Bareti |
TEDxDirigo
• November 2019
From sleepovers to favorite foods, Gracia Bareti shares her personal experiences growing up, navigating multiple cultures and how she shapes this into legislation that confronts an education system that is not representative of the people that utilize it, nor a world it exists within.
Gracia Bareti is a senior at Westbrook High School with a background from being of Congolese and Rwandan decent as a first generation U.S. citizen. She has a desire to help first generation children living in the U.S gain better relationships with their parents by reminding them that they do not have to pick between “one culture or the other” and it’s their right to exist in both. Alongside that, she feels strongly about creating racial equity specifically within school systems and having
their be acknowledgment for the school to prision pipeline
that is occurring. Along with being a student activist, Gracia
can be recognized as being a strong supporter as well as former camper to the non profit Seeds of Peace, her communities school board student representative as well as being the 2019 Girls Nation Outstanding Senator in Washington D.C. and being 1 of 140 delegates worldwide to attend the International Congress of Youth Voices in
San Juan, Puerto Rico. Gracia hopes to Major in International Relations with a possible minor in Environmental and Sustainability Studies.