Julie Ryan and UW Director Matt attended graduate school together in Vancouver, B.C. Earlier this year, Julie reached out to Matt from her English classroom in Dunedin, New Zealand in response to The Underground Writing Podcast episode about our 2018 week-long intensive at juvenile detention. She has since started a creative writing group at St. Hilda's Collegiate School and is with us in the studio to discuss literary education and cultural shifts.

LINKS OF INTEREST:

kia ora, Maori greeting

St. Hilda’s Collegiate School in Dunedin, New Zealand

International Literacy Association: 2019 Conference in New Orleans

Equity in Education

Renée Watson, author of Piecing Me Together and Some Places More Than Others

David Kirkland, Executive Director of NYU Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools

Hamish Brewer, author of RELENTLESS: Changing Lives by Disrupting the Educational Norm

Jennifer Bradbury, Teaching Writer, on the Underground Writing Podcast

Long Way Down, by Jason Reynolds

Tomas Tranströmer, poet

Underground Writing: a literature-based creative writing program serving migrant, incarcerated, recovery, and other at-risk communities in northern Washington through literacy and personal transformation.