Big Ideas with Dr. Bettina Love

Thursday, February 27
8:00 AM–9:00 AM

Music City Center Grand Ballroom

Dr. Bettina L. LoveKick off PLA’s Big Ideas Series with Dr. Bettina Love.

Dr. Bettina L. Love is an award-winning author and associate professor of educational theory and practice at the University of Georgia. Dr. Love’s research focuses on the ways in which urban youth negotiate Hip Hop music and culture to form social, cultural, and political identities and how teachers and schools working with parents and communities can build communal, civically engaged schools rooted in intersectional social justice for the goal of equitable classrooms. She is the author of We Want To Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom and Hip Hop’s Li’l Sistas Speak: Negotiating Hip Hop Identities and Politics in the New South.

PLA is happy to provide coffee outside the Music City Center Grand Ballroom before each Big Ideas session.