Sheri Lyn Schmidt

Much of my 30-year career as a social justice educator has focused on encouraging students and colleagues to look beyond the actions of bigoted groups and individuals and to focus instead on the ways systemic inequality is embedded in society. So it’s come as a bit of a surprise to me that one of the things I’m doing in my work now is to encourage––implore really––my students and colleagues to directly examine the actions of bigoted groups and people.