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How this High School Dean Supports her Queer Students

Season 3 Episode 2 | 7m 41sVideo has Closed Captions

DaShawn, a high school dean, empowers her students to create safe spaces for themselves.

DaShawn is a Dean at a local Bronx high school. She shares her experience of homophobia within her family and how this past fuels her desire to create safe, celebratory spaces at the high school at which she works. She is the advisor to a young, but flourishing GSA, the success of which she attributes to her empowered students

06/20/2018

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First Person

How this High School Dean Supports her Queer Students

Season 3 Episode 2 | 7m 41sVideo has Closed Captions

DaShawn is a Dean at a local Bronx high school. She shares her experience of homophobia within her family and how this past fuels her desire to create safe, celebratory spaces at the high school at which she works. She is the advisor to a young, but flourishing GSA, the success of which she attributes to her empowered students

06/20/2018

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