Contents Introduction 1 1. Facing a New World in Teaching and Learning 7 Sonia Nieto Part I: Identity, Family, and Community 2. You Lead Who You Are 27 Sonie Felix 3. Who Is That in the Mirror? A Journey of Self-Discovery, Resilience, and Pride 39 Nadla Tavares Smith 4. Cabo Verdean Kriolu, From the Community to the Classroom 47 Ambrizeth H. Lima, Dawna Marie Thomas, Abel Djassi Amado, Marlyse Baptista, and Lourenço Garcia Part II: Love and Affirming Practices 5. The Art of Intention 65 Odalis Amparo 6. From Prescriptions to Descriptions: Shaping Teacher Practice for Equity and Justice Through Aesthetic Experience 75 Suzanna Dali-Parker 7.

Journey Onward, Beloved Educators 95 Mary Jade Haney Part III: The Many Faces of Social Justice 8. Slowing Down, Learning from Canaries, and Listening to Resistance 107 Beth Wohlleb Adel 9. Running on Empty: Using Empathy and Kindness to Challenge Classroom Practices 117 Adriana Martinez Part IV: Teaching and Activism in the Classroom and Beyond 10. The Winding Road to Educational Activism 133 Laurie García 11. Write to the City: Practicing Humanizing Pedagogy and Ethnic Studies in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles 147 Jorge Lopez 12. Finding My Place in the Education Ecosystem: From Classroom Teacher to Teacherpreneur 171 Heather Robertson-Devine Part V: Teaching, Heartbreak, and Redemption 13. Why Are We Here?: The Power of Being Seen and of Belonging 193 Yahaira D. Márquez 14.

Why I Still Teach: High School Is a Haunted House, but My Students Are Ghostbusters 205 Seth Peterson 15. Developing a Humane Pedagogy in Order to Live in the Sticky Promises of Hope 225 Kerrita K. Mayfield 16. Love, Hope, Empathy, and the Way Forward 237 Alicia López Nieto About the Editors and Contributors 249 Index 255.