Who are the people in your neighborhood? | Marisela Martinez-Cola | TEDxUSU

Dr. Martinez-Cola invites the audience to meet the activists, writers, and history makers who populate the "people in her neighborhood." Sharing from personal experience and her research on school desegregation, she hopes to inspire the audience to leave their comfort zones and fill the neighborhood of their hearts and minds with the reflections of this beautiful world. Dr. Marisela Martinez-Cola is a native of Battle Creek, Michigan, proud daughter of a Mexican mother and Tejano father, and the first in her family to pursue education beyond high school. Ever the overachiever, she’s earned her bachelor’s, law degree, and doctorate. She is someone who, not only loves to learn, but also loves to teach. As an Assistant Professor of Sociology, Dr. Martinez-Cola teaches and researches comparative critical race studies. Her forthcoming book, The Bricks Before Brown v. Board, is an example of her this focus. In it, she studies the Mexican American, Native American, and Chinese American school desegregation cases that came before the famed, historical Brown vs. Board of Education. Her two favorite phrases are, “I’ve never heard of that before” and “I’ve never thought of it like that before.” This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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