Growing Up American-Muslim: Challenges and Opportunities in the Classroom & Beyond

We continue to support conversations about civic engagement, democracy, and American identity at Educator Innovator with a replay of this CLTV broadcast from March of 2017 on American-Muslim youth and their classroom experiences. For more information on how to engage with these kinds of discussions at EI, read about Writing Our Future, a new youth publishing opportunity related to American Creed and about our ongoing project, Writing Our Civic Futures, a collaboration of the National Writing Project and Marginal Syllabus that supports conversations about civic engagement.

Participants for this Webinar Include: 

• Sangita Shresthova (host), Director of the Media, Activism, and Participatory Politics Project at USC
• Yomna Elsayed, Doctoral Candidate, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at USC
• Doha Mohsen, 9th grader in Dearborn, MI
• Ayman Nagi, 9th grader in Dearborn, MI
• Ammerah Saidi, Dearborn, MI K-12 educator, Program Coordinator for the Detroit Future Schools Program,

 Resources for this Webinar: 

• By Any Media Necessary: The New Youth Activism
• Detroit Future Schools