ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jade Sanchez-Ventura
Jade Sanchez-Ventura is a writer and radical educator. She works in memoir and her personal essays have been published across an array of online literary journals, and in print with Slice Magazine and Seal Press. Her work has been featured on Bitch Media’s Propaganda podcast and been awarded the Slice Literary Conference “Bridging the Gap” award; a Disquiet Literary conference fellowship; and a Hertog fellowship. She is a regular contributor to MUTHA Magazine, which champions a fiery re-imagining of parenting. As an educator, she is very good at being continually wowed by her students and their words on the page. She believes a commitment to racial equity and social justice is essential to the practice of teaching. She has spent the last decade studying and implementing this pedagogical approach to education with the Brooklyn Free School, an urban democratic free school in New York City. Though she has ties to many countries, she has always made her home in Brooklyn, New York. She’s on Instagram posting about radical parenting, teaching, race, writing, and other such matters; find her @jade_m_sv.

RESOURCE PRODUCER

Noleca Radway
Noleca Radway is the Chief Executive Officer at Domino Sound, a queer, Black woman-owned network & production company creating authentic, inclusive and disruptive media content. Noleca is a producer, educator, speaker, writer, screenwriter, host and director. She is the producer and host of the progressive parenting podcastRaising Rebels. She is the director ofThe Cheat Code and Executive Producer ofThe Color Grade. She is also the former Executive Director of theBrooklyn Free School. Noleca loves helping adolescents and marginalized people tell their story within a social justice context.

Noleca’s most recent work, HBO’sBetween the World and Me Podcast, highlights her unique ability to amplify multiple voices and mediums to tell a story and create impact.

She considers the ability to make connections between people, philosophies and dimensions her personal superpower. She attributes this to being a Bronx-raised, first- generation Black-Jamaican wife, mother, teacher, educator and Octavia Butler fan. Noleca graduated from Howard University and attended Bank Street College of Education. She lives in Amsterdam with her husband and their three daughters.

This resource was created, in part, with the generous support of the Open Society Foundation.