Held during the National Council for Social Studies annual conference in Boston, DEY Co-Founder and President of the Board Nancy Carlsson-Paige, DEY Treasurer Geralyn Bywater, and DEY Executive Director Denisha Jones attended the Zinn Education Dinner Reception. Celebrating the Zinn Education Project's 16th year, they were joined by people’s historians, authors, Rethinking Schools editors, Teaching for Change staff, Howard Zinn’s family members and former students, teachers who use Zinn Education Project lessons, Freedom Summer veterans, authors, teacher educators, filmmakers, artists, and more. Dr. Kellie Carter Jackson, author of We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance, provided an engaging keynote. |