Delpit, Lisa

MacArthur Fellow Lisa Delpit is the executive director for the Center for Urban Education and Innovation at Florida International University. She is the author of the bestselling "Other People's Children" (The New Press) and the recipient of the award for Outstanding Contribution to Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, which hailed her as a "visionary scholar and woman of courage." She lives in Miami. Joanne Kilgour Dowdy is an associate professor of adolescent/adult literacy at Kent State University in the department of teaching, leadership, and curriculum studies in Kent,...