Presenter: Nisa Muhammad of Sapelo Square’s Freedom School & Yonatan Ghebray of NABC
Workshop Description
This workshop will introduce participants to Sapelo Square’s Freedom School that provides free liberation education to an intergenerational community. Please visit our website to see our dynamic program at: https://sapelosquare.com/freedom-school/
Dreaming of Alternative Spaces in Education – Building a Network of Knowledge Exchange
There are a number of formal and community-driven educational practices that aim at increasing the capacity of Black families to advance outcomes for Black students. In this session, we will highlight some of them and propose an intentional framework for knowledge mobilization to foster field building and best practices.
Bio
Nisa Muhammad
Nisa Muhammad, Sapelo’s Internship Coordinator, is a highly acclaimed university Muslim chaplain that specializes in sharing the joys and challenges of being Black and Muslim on college campuses. She is the Internship Coordinator for Sapelo Square.
Yonatan Ghebray
Yonatan Ghebray is NABC’s Senior Director of Evaluation, Learning and Quality Improvement. He works with NABC’s team and strategic partners to build and enhance data and evaluation capacity of Black-led, Black-focused, and Black-serving organizations through innovative learning strategies to advance systems change. Yonatan brings a wealth of experience in community health, community development, community-based research & evaluation, evaluative capacity building and culture of inquiry-based learning. He held various positions in non-profit and funding organizations; designed and taught community development practices, grant writing, and program evaluation courses in college; and provided consulting services in evaluative capacity and culture building.
Through these experiences, he developed a deeper understanding of what it takes to bring about transformational change in organizations and communities. He is a firm believer in self-empowerment as a precondition for meaningful engagement in systems change. He also believes systems change requires engaging in difficult conversations that must first lead to personal transformation. He understands the complexity and messiness of systems change and sees himself as part of the system that must change for the better.
Yonatan received a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Masters in Education at York University, and is an alumnus of the Emerging Leaders Program, Management Certificate offered by United Way Toronto, Metcalf Foundation and York University’s Schulich School of Business, and Maytree Foundation’s Leaders for Change. As a passionate soccer player and amateur coach, he brings coaching principles and team spirit to his work.