Tracy Gray, Founder and President of The Sankofa Global Project
July 29, 2013
Hosted by Desiree Watson
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Tracy Gray, Founder & President of The Sankofa Global Project has devoted her professional life as an educator and entrepreneur to developing interdisciplinary curricular. Creating and directing diversity and intercultural programs at institutions including The Ethical Cultural Fieldston School in New York, The 12Comics Learning Support Program and The Carey School in San Mateo, California. Traci has also launched international partnerships to expand cultural and global awareness and interaction through her work with the Antelope Foundation (Kenya), Infinite Family (South Africa), and the Ghana Iniative of the National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women. She will discuss the Trayvon Martin case as it pertains to national and global efforts to educate are children with the best intellectual diversity platform available for the future. Traci Gray holds a M.S. ED degree in Early Childhood Education/General Education from Bank Street College of Education, she holds a BA degree in Political Science from Central State University.
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