Wisdom Friday w/ Torie Weiston-Serdan

February 5, 2021 @ 8:00PM — 9:00PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)

Dive deep into the healing practices and pedagogy of Torie Weiston-Serdan, facilitated by ATN co-founder Bettina Love at 8PM EST

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Torie Weiston-Serdan is a scholar and practitioner with over 13 years of teaching and youth programming experience. An emerging leader in the youth mentoring field, she wrote Critical Mentoring: A Practical Guide, which has become the handbook for culturally sustaining youth work in the discipline. Outside of teaching and research,Weiston-Serdan runs the Youth Mentoring Action Network, a non-profit dedicated to leveraging justice and equity mentoring. Through her community-based work, she mentors Inland Empire youth through high school into college and careers. She also works extensively with other community-based organizations in support of their youth advocacy efforts, specializing in training mentors to work with diverse youth populations:i.e. Black, Latinx, LGBTQ, first-generation college students and low-income youth.

As a scholar, she examines how marginalized and minoritized youth are served by mentoring and youth development programs. Weiston-Serdan currently serves on the Big Brothers Big Sisters LGBTQ National Advisory Council and the Research Board of the National Mentoring Resource Center.

*This event takes place EST, and will not be recorded. If you do not receive a post-purchase email please contact ominiramars@abolitionistteachingnetwork.org.*