May 11 - 15, 2015

Youth, Multiliteracies, & educational Justice (Un)Final Projects

Project Team

Tara Conley: Doctoral student, CMLTD, Teachers College, Columbia University

Lauren Gunn: Doctoral student, English Education, Teachers College, Columbia University

Kristine Rodriguez Kerr: Postdoc, CMLTD, Teachers College, Columbia University

Joe Riina-Ferrie: Doctoral student, CMLTD, Teachers College, Columbia University

Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz: Assistant Professor of English Education, Teachers College, Columbia University

Lalitha Vasudevan: Associate Professor of Technology and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University

Melissa Wade: Court Improvement Project Liaison, New York County Family Court

2015 #YMEJ exhibition incorporates an emphasis on multiliteracies, which has been at the center of our inquiries as we engaged with the lives of young people involved in the foster care and juvenile justice systems. Embedded in their institutional experiences are a range of other forces that have informed our own understandings about surveillance, justice, and education in these young people's lives, as well as the creative capacities that are brought forth when we create the conditions that allow their literacies and practices of possibility to ourish.

Visit the YMEJ website for more information.