The 2021 Virtual NEA National Leadership Summit Recap
On March 12-14, nearly 2,000 educators signed up and participated in NEA’s first ever virtual National Leadership Summit. The lineup of impressive keynote speakers included:
- Nancy Maclean, historian, professor, and author of Democracy in Chains: The deep history of the radical right’s stealth plan for America.
- Dr. Andre Perry, senior fellow at The Brookings Institution, author of Know Your Price: Valuing Black Lives and Property in America’s Black Cities.
- Reverend Dr. William J. Barber, II, president and senior lecturer at Repairers of the Breach and co-chair of the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival.
Other Summit participants included:
- 2021 Massachusetts Teacher of the Year Takeru Nagayoshi
- Mecca Verdell, youth poet
- Natalie Acosta, youth organizer with Voces de la Frontera
- Malcolm Jamal Warner, actor, director, musician, and producer
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