doing/Thinking/writing
Educational studies: prison/school nexus, LGBTQ lives, why poverty- still?, immigration/education policies, access to technology, counter-militarization.
Justice movements: feminisms, no border/immigration transformation, queer, prison abolition and decarceration.
Research methodologies: participatory action research, community-based organizing, feminist research methodologies.
Lately, Images
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1.Erica and Jean 2009 SLAHS graduation
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2.Jitu and Myrna
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3.Carrots! Parsnips!
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4.Glorious cedar trees in Whonnock
ERICA R. MEINERS
- worker, learner, writer, teacher
Based in Chicago, I am in involved with a number of initiatives working for justice.
With others, I am a starter, and still a teacher and a coordinator, of an alternative high school for men and women who have been incarcerated, St. Leonard's Adult High School. In 2009, I co-authored the first LGBTQ audit of teacher education programs in the U.S. Visibility Matters. I collaborated to develop Women and Prison: A Site of Resistance and TAME: Teachers Against Militarized Education.
I am the author of a number of books: Right to be hostile: Schools, prisons and the making of public enemies (Routledge 2007), Public acts: Disruptive readings on making curriculum public with Francisco Ibáñez-Carrasco (Routledge 2004), and with Therese Quinn, is Flaunt It! Queers organizing for public education and justice. I also write articles in a range of publications including AREA Chicago, ReThinking Schools, International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, Meridians, and Upping the Anti. Check out my articles in the latest issue of No More Potlucks and Radical Teacher. 2011 work is out in Monthly Review and Women’s Studies Quarterly.
I blog about resistances, Canadiana and pop cultures for MS Magazine.
Work with allies in Chicago about the lives and organizing of undocumented youth is out, including a piece in Social Justice Journal, and Academe. In 2010 I was a sister at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute in Montreal, continuing work on fear, childhood and protection. I am also facilitating/participating in a Communiversity through Project NIA and the Chicago Freedom School. In 2011-2012 I am a Visiting Research Faculty at the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy.
My day job is a Professor of Education and Women's Studies at Northeastern Illinois University - a public, urban institution in Chicago where I am also a union member of UPI. I am into making jam, trying to keep my bees alive, most music, and long distance running. Email me at e-meiners@neiu.edu