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Podcast: The Institute of Black Imagination.
Episode: E22. The Hidden Costs of Education w. Dr. Nadia Lopez.
Description: Why open a school? To close a prison. That is the title of the Ted talk given by today’s guest, Educator Dr. Nadia Lopez. The award-winning founding principal of Mott Hall Bridges Academy located in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn never dreamed of being a teacher. In fact, she took quite a circuitous route to becoming an educator.The child of Honduran and Guatemalan immigrants, young Nadia struggled with her Afro-Latinx heritage, often being teased for her last name, while growing up in her native Brooklyn. But it was this outsider status that would prove to be he...