Alexandra Haridopolos's guest appearances

Alexandra Haridopolos

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Warriors of Education Podcast

Aixa Rodriguez

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Bernie Sanders

Chris Stewart

Eileen Myles

Tiffany King

Eric Garner

Robert Ross

Jimmy Hoffa

Tim Faust

Hurricane Maria

Jay Walker

Astra Taylor

Marc Ribot

J.S. Ondara

OwlTail

On today's episode I speak to Alexandra Haridopolos and Ilan Desai- Geller who both teach on the Grace Dodge Campus in the Bronx.  They have been a part of the ongoing protests against the NYC DOE and The UFT as teachers are returning to unsafe classrooms before the students come back.  There has been an effort to keep classes remote because schools are not meeting the safety standards with poor ventilation and windows that barely open. Teachers have had enough and are speaking out for their own safety and the safety of the students. Ilan Desai-Geller is a high school educator in The Bronx and active member of MORE-UFT, the social justice caucus of the New York City teacher's union. Taking inspiration from the centuries-long tradition of Freedom Schools and ethnic studies, Ilan strives for his classrooms to provide his students with the context and skills to organize for liberation of all peoples.Alexandra Haridopolos is a high school educator in the Grace Dodge Campus in The Bronx, a UFT delegate and active member of MORE-UFT, the social justice caucus of the New York City teacher's union. Alexandra Haridopolos has organized around educational inequities since high school, fighting for equitable admission policies, parent power in DOE decisions and now sounding the alarm on DOE's abandonment of vulnerable communities since the COVID19 pandemic began in March 2020. In the classroom, Haridopolos centers participatory action research projects and popular education methods to facilitate students' development of their own research on issues impacting their community culminating in a short documentary film presented at the local public library. 

On today's episode I speak to Alexandra Haridopolos and Ilan Desai- Geller who both teach on the Grace Dodge Campus in the Bronx.  They have been a part of the ongoing protests against the NYC DOE and The UFT as teachers are returning to unsafe classrooms before the students come back.  There has been an effort to keep classes remote because schools are not meeting the safety standards with poor ventilation and windows that barely open. Teachers have had enough and are speaking out for their own safety and the safety of the students. Ilan Desai-Geller is a high school educator in The Bronx and active member of MORE-UFT, the social justice caucus of the New York City teacher's union. Taking inspiration from the centuries-long tradition of Freedom Schools and ethnic studies, Ilan strives for his classrooms to provide his students with the context and skills to organize for liberation of all peoples.Alexandra Haridopolos is a high school educator in the Grace Dodge Campus in The Bronx, a UFT delegate and active member of MORE-UFT, the social justice caucus of the New York City teacher's union. Alexandra Haridopolos has organized around educational inequities since high school, fighting for equitable admission policies, parent power in DOE decisions and now sounding the alarm on DOE's abandonment of vulnerable communities since the COVID19 pandemic began in March 2020. In the classroom, Haridopolos centers participatory action research projects and popular education methods to facilitate students' development of their own research on issues impacting their community culminating in a short documentary film presented at the local public library.

Episode 30: The Grace Dodge Protests: Not Until It's Safe with Alexandra Haridopolos and Ilan Desai-Geller

John Tarleton

John Tarleton discusses school reopening in the fall, despite the ongoing pandemic, with Alexandra Haridopolos, an ESL teacher at Grace Dodge campus in the Bronx, a union delegate and member of Movement of Rank and File Educators (MORE), the social justice caucus of the United Federation of Teachers.

Alexandra Haridopolos Interviewed on WBAI by John Tarleton