Cyphers for Justice: Learning from the wisdom of intergenerational inquiry with youth

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1 All adults within the Cyphers for Justice program are referred to as adult allies.

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Notes on contributors

Jamila J. Lyiscott

Jamila J. Lyiscott, aka Dr. J., is a community-engaged scholar, national speaker, and the author of Black Appetite. White Food: Issues of Race, Voice, and Justice Within and Beyond the Classroom. She currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Social Justice Education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she is the co-founder and co-director of the Center of Racial Justice and Youth Engaged Research, and co-editor of the Equity & Excellence in Education journal. Dr. J. is most well known for being featured on TED.com where her video, “3 Ways to Speak English,” has been viewed over 4.8 million times.

Limarys Caraballo

Limarys Caraballo is a first-generation Cuban and Puerto Rican-American scholar activist who co-founded and co-directs CFJ alongside Jamila Lyiscott. She’s a former high school teacher and administrator, and currently an associate professor at CUNY Queens College and Graduate Center, and co-director of English Education. Her current research examines the multiple identities and literacies of youth and educators engaged in justice-driven work.

Danielle Filipiak

Danielle Filipiak is an Assistant Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and Director of the Secondary English Education program at the University of Connecticut. Her research interests focus on literacy and English education in plural contexts; civic learning and critical digital literacies; and practitioner and participatory research approaches.

Joe Riina-Ferrie

Joe Riina-Ferrie is a white doctoral student studying applied anthropology at Teachers College, Columbia University. He has spent time as a youth media educator and has facilitated video and critical digital literacy work at CFJ. He studies intersections of education, policy, media and technology.

Mijin Yeom

Mijin Yeom is a Korean activist. She is currently a high school English teacher in the South Bronx and an adjunct at Queens College and Syracuse University Project Advance. Her work centers building anti-racist curriculum and advocating abolitionist teaching.

Mikal Amin Lee

Mikal Amin Lee (He/Him/His) is a Black Hip-Hop artist, educator, cultural ambassador, curator and activist who has served as the Hip-Hop facilitator for CFJ for eight years. He currently serves as an Education Manager and curator in the education department at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and is the founder of Hip-Hop cultural organization Fresh Roots Music. Mikal’s music and culture work deals with the social realities stemming from the Black experience in America and centers Hip-Hop as his primary focal point in his academic instruction and publishing.