On Resilience—with Alejandra Vazquez-Baur

For this week's episode, Rebecca sat down with Alejandra Vazquez-Baur, an educator-turned-policy advocate whose work focuses on expanding supports for K–12 immigrant students—especially newcomers—and multilingual students. As Alejandra describes herself: "I am a product of resilient Mexican women. A sister. A dancer. An educator. A visionary." They talk about the National Newcomer Network Alejandra co-founded as a policy entrepreneur at The Next 100; how she's bringing her experience in the classroom as a high school math teacher onto the national policy scene; the role of dreaming in her work and her path to claiming her role as a visionary; resilience and how to stay rooted; how music, dance, and movement inform her advocacy work; and lots more. Links from this episode: Follow Alejandra on Twitter @Ale_VazquezBaur and learn more about her work and her policy entrepreneurship at Next100 Learn more about the National Newcomer Network and follow to stay up to date Learn more about ImmSchools And here's more about the Obama Foundation fellowship Nominate the changemakers you most want to hear from by emailing us at OffKilterShow@TCF.org

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On Resilience—with Alejandra Vazquez-Baur is an episode from OFF-KILTER with Rebecca Vallas by The Century Foundation.

This episode is 59:54 long.

This episode was published on Aug 3, 2023.

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