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The Exit Interview: A Podcast for Black EducatorsLiberation As A Non-Negotiable with Jamilah PittsWhat happens when an educator's deep love for liberation collides with the realities of traditional schooling?
In this episode of The Exit Interview: A Podcast for Black Educators, Dr. Asia Lyons sits down with Jamilah Pittseducator, author, yoga teacher, and founder of She Imprintsto explore her journey through the education system and beyond. Jamilah shares how her childhood experiences with Black women teachers inspired her dream to teach, and how her international work, from Boston to the Dominican Republic to India, shaped her vision of education as a tool for healing and activism. She opens up about the...2025-04-2957 min
The Exit Interview: A Podcast for Black EducatorsLiberation As A Non-Negotiable with Jamilah PittsWhat happens when an educator's deep love for liberation collides with the realities of traditional schooling?
In this episode of The Exit Interview: A Podcast for Black Educators, Dr. Asia Lyons sits down with Jamilah Pittseducator, author, yoga teacher, and founder of She Imprintsto explore her journey through the education system and beyond. Jamilah shares how her childhood experiences with Black women teachers inspired her dream to teach, and how her international work, from Boston to the Dominican Republic to India, shaped her vision of education as a tool for healing and activism. She opens up about the...2025-04-2958 min
Future Learning Design PodcastTowards Liberation - A Conversation with Jamilah PittsThis week I’m chatting with Jamilah Pitts, whose incredible work challenges us to root our educational practices in activism, healing and love. This is so that we tell the truth about the deep biases and harms that continue to persist within our societies and many of our educational settings. Jamilah’s work follows in the incredible tradition of bell hooks, Audre Lorde, James Baldwin and many others.
Jamilah is an educator, writer, social entrepreneur and yoga teacher whose work centers the liberation, healing and holistic development of communities of the global majority. She has served in vario...2024-03-3157 min
The Millennial Teacher PodcastToward LiberationEducational practices that are rooted in love is what every Educator should be displaying inside and outside of the classroom. Author, Educator, and Consultant Jamilah Pitts discusses all things liberation and how to root your practices with love, activism, and healing. 2024-03-0529 min
Finding RefugeThe Power of LoveJamilah Pitts is an author, educator, social entrepreneur, and wellness educator whose work centers the liberation, healing and holistic development of communities of the Global majority. Jamilah has worked and served in various roles and spaces to promote racial justice and healing. Jamilah has served as a teacher, coach, dean, and as an Assistant principal. She has worked in domestic and international educational spaces, including Massachusetts, New York, the Dominican Republic, China and in India. As the Founder and CEO of Jamilah Pitts Consulting, Jamilah partners with schools, communities, universities and organizations to advance the work of r...2023-12-0154 min
The Porshanality PodcastAn Interview With Jamilah Pitts: Toward Liberation In Education and WhatnotWelcome to The Porshanality Podcast! A curiously sermonic podcast playground for adulting over 30. Because let’s keep it real, life will keep life with swift transitions, but together we can honor the moments we are in and keep on living. I am your host, Porsha Williams Gates. I’m an entrepreneur, coach, ordained minister, spiritual advisor, writer, and more. Join me weekly on Wednesdays as we grow and live together in community.On this episode, we welcome Jamilah Pitts for an interview. She is the author of Toward Liberation: Education Practices Rooted In Activism, Healing, and Love (Beacon Pres...2023-11-011h 01
Modern Classrooms Project PodcastEpisode 154: Teacher WellnessToni Rose is joined by Jamilah Pitts to discuss the value of authentic self care and the importance teacher wellness and wellbeing in building a movement toward educational change.
Read a summary of this episode on the Modern Classrooms Project blog
Show Notes
MCP Meetups and Workshops:
Shades of Excellence August Meetup
Unlocking Reading Through Self Paced Learning
Jamilah Pitts
Preorder Jamilah's upcoming book Toward Liberation: Educational Practices in Activism, Healing, and Love
Learning for Justice (formerly Teaching for Tolerance)
Self Care in the Movement2023-08-2755 min
The Audacious Black Girl PodcastEP 48 " Black Wellness at the Intersection of Social Justice" w/ Jamilah PittsIn this episode, I chat with Jamilah Pitts, Social Entrepreneur and Educator, about the importance of Black wellness and how it intersects with social justice. Jamilah's work focuses on wellness for Black women and other women of the global majority. She believes when we are well, we change the trajectory of our legacies. Her own story of radical rest led to her truly standing in her purpose and finding the audacity to live a life dedicated to wellness. We go beyond self-care and explain why your wellness and healing are truly an act of liberation. In this...2023-04-0555 min
Discover Top Audiobooks in Fiction, Coming of AgeBig Girl: A Novel by Mecca Jamilah SullivanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600162 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Big Girl: A Novel Author: Mecca Jamilah Sullivan Narrator: Lisa Reneé Pitts Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 4 minutes Release date: July 26, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Exquisitely compassionate and witty, Big Girl traces the intergenerational hungers and desires of Black womanhood, as told through the unforgettable voice of Malaya Clondon. In her highly anticipated debut novel, Mecca Jamilah Sullivan explores the perils—and undeniable beauty—of insatiable longing. Growing up in a rapidly changing Harlem, eight-year-old Malay...2022-07-2730 min
Discover Top Full Audiobooks in Fiction, Coming of AgeBig Girl: A Novel by Mecca Jamilah SullivanPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600162to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Big Girl: A Novel
Author: Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
Narrator: Lisa Reneé Pitts
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 12 hours 4 minutes
Release date: July 26, 2022
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2
Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1
Genres: Coming of Age
Publisher's Summary:
Exquisitely compassionate and witty, Big Girl traces the intergenerational hungers and desires of Black womanhood, as told through the unforgettable voice of Malaya Clondon. In her highly anticipated debut novel, Mecca Jamilah Sullivan explores the perils—and undeniable beauty—of insatiable longing. Growing up in a rapidly changing Harlem, eight-year-old Malaya hates...2022-07-2712h 04
Download New Full Audiobooks in Fiction, Contemporary WomenBig Girl: A Novel by Mecca Jamilah SullivanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600162 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Big Girl: A Novel Author: Mecca Jamilah Sullivan Narrator: Lisa Reneé Pitts Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 4 minutes Release date: July 26, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Exquisitely compassionate and witty, Big Girl traces the intergenerational hungers and desires of Black womanhood, as told through the unforgettable voice of Malaya Clondon. In her highly anticipated debut novel, Mecca Jamilah Sullivan explores the perils—and undeniable beauty—of insatiable longing. Growing up in a rapidly changing Harlem, eight-year-old Malaya hates...2022-07-2630 min
The Educator's Room Presents: The Teacher Self-Care PodcastEpisode 142: Wellness as LiberationIn this episode, Franchesca Warren interviews Jamilah Pitts and discusses why wellness can essentially be liberation. To find out more about Jamilah's quest for self-care visit www.jamilahpitts.com. My name is Jamilah Pitts, the Founder, and CEO of Jamilah Pitts Consulting, a firm designed to support the liberation, intergenerational healing and holistic development of students and communities of color through an emphasis on education and wellness.--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/teacher-self-care/support2022-01-2345 min
The Bob Murphy ShowExplaining the Plan to Dismantle Schools and the Fed's AlchemyBob reads from an article recently tweeted out by the NEA, which calls for an end to schooling as we know it in order to promote anti-racism. He then discusses what the Fed has been up to since the coronavirus panic began.
Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest:
The YouTube version of this episode (with lots of visuals).Karlyn Borysenko’s YouTube episode on the NEA tweet.Jamilah Pitts’ article on school transformation.Fed article talking about dividend payments to member banks.Total assets of the Federal Reserve System.
For more information, see BobMurphyShow.com...2020-10-0500 min
Fund for Teachers - The PodcastTeaching Anti-Racist, Anti-Bias Themes in a Racial PandemicIn her essay “Don't Say Nothing," Jamilah Pitts exhorts educators that teaching as an act of resistance and teaching as an act of healing are not mutually exclusive. That when teachers choose to remain silent about moments of racial tension or violence—violence that may well touch students’ own communities or families—these children are overtly reminded of their inferior place in society. That engaging in dialogue about mass incarceration rates; the militarism of police and the killing of innocent black men and women is but one antidote to systemic racism. That essay was written FOUR YEARS AGO, in the fall...2020-06-0332 min
3 Ps in a Pod: An Education PodcastS5 Episode 3: Where School Safety Policy and Practice Collide (Part 2)Elama Dzanic joins Angelia and Mary to continue the conversation around school safety. Elma champions the idea that the level of connectedness our students feel to our school communities, both emotionally and socially, is just as important as a student’s academic success. She emphasizes that it is the the authentic relationships created among and between students and adults in a school community that develops safety and security. Elma calls upon us to assess our own biases and to hold space for challenging topics in our classrooms. Listen in to hear some of Elma’s experiences as she provides us kn...2019-01-3125 min