by Eva Jo Meyers | Aug 19, 2021 | Raise the Room
I was attending a public Zoom meeting recently, when a participant asked in the chat whether there was anyone who could translate into Portuguese. Her request raised a red flag for me – because I was certain there were many participants on the call who also...
by Eva Jo Meyers | Apr 18, 2021 | Raise the Room
By Julie Beth Lake, Ph.D. Julie Lake is the inaugural Director of the J.D. Legal English Program at Georgetown University Law Center. She relies on her background in linguistics and language-education pedagogy to help multilingual law students navigate the linguistic...
by Eva Jo Meyers | Mar 1, 2021 | Raise the Room
Raise the Room calls on us to acknowledge that the wisdom is in the room, and that our role as facilitators is to help bring that wisdom forward. How can we use story purposefully to help participants unlearn ideologies that perpetuate racism, sexism, homophobia,...
by Eva Jo Meyers | Feb 11, 2021 | Raise the Room
If you have read “My Grandmother’s Hands” by Resmaa Menakem, or if you are a fan of somatic healing, you will be familiar with the practice of making sounds or music together in a group as a form of regulation and centering. Playing music is also one...
by Eva Jo Meyers | Jan 28, 2021 | Articles
Note: This article has been archived by the magazine and is no longer available. Here is an article I co-authored with Ambata Kazi-Nance about the need for counternarratives in historical fiction.
