For this week's episode, we welcome ethnic studies teacher and curriculum specialist Lucia Reyes to the podcast to talk about her personal journey in education, her Chicana heritage, the importance of incorporating ethnic studies into our K-12 curriculum, the founding of her company, ESTE Publishing, and much more! To learn more about Lucia's work, you can visit the ESTE Publishing website at estepublishing.com or you can follow her on Instagram with the handles @the_rebellious_history_teacher (Personal) and @a_rebellious_education (Business).
BIO: Lucia Reyes is a proud Chicana mama to one special little human & a “Mama Reyes” to hundreds of special bigger humans. She is a 7th grade Social Studies & 7th/8th grade Ethnic Studies public school teacher and the founder of ESTE Publishing. Through ESTE, which stands for Empowering Students Through Education, she offers services & curriculum that is 100% dedicated to racial equity, social justice, & decolonized historical truth. SHE IS NOT A NEUTRAL EDUCATOR. She has spent 20 years in education advocating for the most underserved & underestimated youth in Los Angeles County to have the same educational access, rights, & opportunities as other kids. She’s tired of fighting. She just wants to teach but she’s seen too much, knows too much, hugged too many sobbing kids, seen too many kids struggle in a system that was designed to hold them down instead of lift them up.
