Unplugging From the Nonprofit Industrial Matrix

Podcast co-hosts and co-editors of the book ⁠From White Folks Who Teach in the Hood⁠, Dr. Christopher Emdin and sam seidel speak with Justin Cohen. Justin is a Brooklyn-based dad, author, and activist. He is also the author of an essay in From White Folks Who Teach in the Hood. In the essay, titled “The Unbearable Whiteness of Boston: Unplugging From the Nonprofit Industrial Matrix,” Justin takes readers on a journey through his early career experiences in public schools and the realizations he had as a twenty-something year old president of a national education nonprofit. In this episode, he talks with Chris and sam about the lies we tell new teachers, intergenerational family legacies of work in public schools, and why he has made a personal commitment to bring up race in every single conversation.

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This episode was edited by Isabel Huff.