Misplaced at the Margins
Kassandra "Kassie" Colón |
TEDxWVU
• October 2020
Kassie Colón is a grassroots leader from Sunrise, Florida. Her work emphasizes the importance of cultivating social justice in education and focusing specifically on cultural representation in the K-12 classroom. In 2018, Kassie founded Project La Resolana, a grassroots organization that matches students with representative literature as a medium for challenging dominant perspectives in education. As a Puerto Rican and Mexican-American scholar, Kassie’s continued work focuses on bridging Puerto Rican/Chicano/Latin-x studies and a practice-oriented approach to knowledge construction and dissemination. Her talk encourages all to utilize resources of representative literature in schools, in homes, and across the board.