Students for Education Reform Founder at Temple

Posted by on April 02, 2012

Please share with your students this excellent opportunity to learn more about how their peers are organizing to improve the educational system for current and future generations. Featured in Time magazine, Alexis Morin, co-founder of Students for Education Reform (SFER), will speak about how SFER is mobilizing the next generation of leaders to understand education inequity as an unacceptable social injustice that is solvable.

Time: 6:00 pm, Thursday, April 5

Place: Kiva Auditorium, Ritter Annex, Temple University
1301 Cecil B. Moore Avenue

Topic: Addressing Educational Inequity: How today’s students are working to change public opinion, identify policies for long-term success, and increase the diversity and backgrounds of those entering the field of education – all as part of an effort to address the unacceptable social injustice that is educational inequity in America today. Students will get information on how to get involved with this multi-campus, nationwide movement.

Thank You: To Temple University’s College of Education for supporting this event.

Bio: Alexis Morin co-founded Students for Education Reform in 2009 with Catharine Bellinger, quickly growing the Princeton chapter to a thriving student group as 2009-2010 chapter leader. In her role as co-Executive Director, Alexis manages SFER’s internal operations, programs, and national team. Previously, Alexis served as special assistant to Norman Atkins, President of Relay Graduate School of Education, and assisted Paul Bambrick, Managing Director of Uncommon Schools, with special projects. She has worked on the human capital team at DC Public Schools and served on the local school board in Northborough, MA. Alexis is currently taking a leave of absence from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University to work full-time on SFER.