Dr. Arash Daneshzadeh: Education, Agency and Justice.

In this episode, we take a deeper delve into education, trauma-informed pedagogy, our carceral classrooms and transformative justice. 

 

 

Our Guest:

Dr. Arash Daneshzadeh was born in Tehran, Iran, and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is the National Chair for Save The Kids from Incarceration, a national nonprofit focused on prison abolition and school-sanctioned violence, and co-edited a textbook on the topic of youth punishment entitled Understanding, Dismantling, and Disrupting the Prison-To-School Pipeline. For the past five years, Arash has taught classes on organizing movements in the Graduate School of Education at the University of San Francisco. For the past 7 years, he has taught in the Prison University Project at San Quentin State Penitentiary. 

 

Twitter: @A_Daneshzadeh
email: ArashDaneshzadeh@gmail.com

 

New Books on Academic Research: Hip Hop Activism (2021); What do we mean by restorative?: A qualitative analysis of a restorative justice program's impact upon Black girls at an urban high school in California (2021); Hip Hop & Dismantling the School-To-Prison Pipeline (2020); Understanding, Dismantling, and Disrupting the Prison-to-School Pipeline (2017)