April Yee

Director of Education @taaforg. Former researcher, college advisor; forever sociologist. Conspiring for liberatory education. Tweets my own.

[April Yee @aprilyeephd]

@GinaAnnGarcia @PittTweet @UCBerkeley @Berkeley_Educ So happy about your homecoming- for you and for California college students and practitioners!

[April Yee @aprilyeephd]

I had the pleasure + privilege of chatting with Drs. Tiffany Herbert + Lindsay Perez Huber about what community care can look like on campuses. Let's take responsibility for students' #mentalhealth and create systems where students thrive, not just persist + survive.

[College Futures Foundation @CollegeFutures]

How are #HigherEd institutions harming & helping #CollegeStudentMentalHealth? #OpportunityForumWithCollegeFutures on “Taking Responsibility for College Student #MentalHealth”: https://t.co/vF2a8auD4y.

#MentalHealthAwarenessMonth @aprilyeephd @CSULB @DominguezHills

[April Yee @aprilyeephd]

I believe college students deserve to be seen + valued, not just as FTEs or degrees, but as humans deserving of care. ❤️This report lays out how #HigherEd can show care, support student wellbeing + thriving: Do more of what helps students' mental health + less of what harms it.

[College Futures Foundation @CollegeFutures]

NEW REPORT: “Degrees of Distress: How Higher Education Institutions Hurt and Help Student Mental Health” demonstrates #HigherEd's role & responsibility in shaping #CollegeStudentMentalHealth. View: https://t.co/bBSz55QTum.

#DegreesOfDistress #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth

[April Yee @aprilyeephd]

Private funders can help sustain change by paying to restore that human toll, w/partners who offer balm for burnout, build belonging + solidarity in the struggle. Honored to support the SEPI Collective, R9 Equity + GP Leads, GPRCs, #CCHALES @EriqFelix in their community care. 2/2

[April Yee @aprilyeephd]

Starting out the new week reflecting on the salve🪴of #SEPI2023 on Friday. When funders talk about the “sustainability” of change efforts, we rarely name the intellectual and emotional labor of those pushing against the status quo every single day. 1/2

[April Yee @aprilyeephd]

@HMccambly @DocZo Please do!!

[April Yee @aprilyeephd]

📣Funder friends: please join me in attending this powerhouse panel! We need critical colleagues to hold us accountable for advancing racial justice & to resist any comforting beliefs that philanthropy is doing enough.

[Prof M @HMccambly]

Join AERA @Division_L and @AERAPhilanthEd SIG for this powerhouse panel on April 11th: @janelletscott @Prof_Wooten @meganfrancis and @KrystalVillano1 will consider possibilities for justice-driven resistance amidst racial backlash in #edpolicy Register: https://t.co/SVSYaaVbgQ

[April Yee @aprilyeephd]

@EriqFelix Huge congratulations and deep thanks for lifting up the SEPI collective as you rise!! 💫

[April Yee @aprilyeephd]

Professor @chrisemdin of @USCRaceEquity does not need any external validation of his #ratchetdemic #scienceGENIUS or Divine Assignment, but I must testify that those of us at the @A2MEND2006 Summit today were literally blessed to bear witness to his BRILLIANCE.✨

[April Yee @aprilyeephd]

There is no other gathering like an @A2MEND2006 Summit. It is an abundance of wisdom, joy, and community care that affirms the best of what higher education can be: life-changing and liberating. #resurrecting #blackstudentsuccess

[April Yee @aprilyeephd]

@DrKevinFvL Welcome to the world, Greyson, and welcome to the wonders of parenthood, Kevin! Sending lots of love to your family at this tender time.

[April Yee @aprilyeephd]

@EriqFelix Those sibling smiles!! 💖💖

[April Yee @aprilyeephd]

What a joy to learn from and lift up @CalCommColleges leaders who support their students as whole humans, always and especially in 2020-21. May these stories fill your cups as you fill others’ cups every day. We see your light and we thank you for shining. ✨✨✨

[College Futures Foundation @CollegeFutures]

Extraordinary student support leaders come from all walks of life & hold many kinds of roles, reminding us of the extraordinary power of everyday leadership. Join us in celebrating 46 #HolisiticStudentSupport leaders across 25 @CalCommColleges.

More: https://t.co/KhXNIjOUfl

[April Yee @aprilyeephd]

Especially love this truth from the unabridged version: “Engaging in this type of collective work w folks across CCs, I’ve come to realize that it was never about the policy, but the people carrying out the work.” -@EriqFelix #solidarity #liberatoryhighered

[April Yee @aprilyeephd]

From @EriqFelix, one of my fave public scholars committed to community praxis: “We must see #racialequity work as a collective effort that acknowledges that no individual response can address systemic inequity; only systemic responses can get us closer to achieving equity.”

[EF @EriqFelix]

30 years ago, the Student Equity Policy was introduced into the @CalCommColleges seeking to address inequities faced by Black & Latinx students. I share some thoughts on where the policy has been and where it needs to go to truly ameliorate racial inequity
https://t.co/WxrIqrMQl2

[April Yee @aprilyeephd]

PSA for Bay Area friends: you have one month to witness the magic of ✨#GODDESS ✨ future Tony award-winning musical (mark my words) @BerkeleyRep. I promise your soul will be filled as mine was tonight. https://t.co/zZh0QamIj1

[The Debt Collective 🟥 @StrikeDebt]

Everyone, let’s take 5 minutes to dwell on this fact:

20 million beautiful human beings will have $0 of debt. We’ve moved mountains. Only a few more Himalayas left to go 😀

[Gayatri Patnaik @gpatnaik1]

So excited to share that an excerpt from the new Introduction of #FreedomDreams by Robin D.G. Kelley is up on @TheBostonReview . Link is below!

@aja_monet @BeaconPressBks

https://t.co/S03MGl7XAA

[Adrián Trinidad @AdrianTrinid]

🚨 New report out on race and dev ed reform #AB705 at @CalCommColleges

Check it out: https://t.co/a0uuJb7bIA

Funded by @CollegeFutures in partnership w/ @CompleteCollege, the report spotlights how leaders centered racial equity during implementation.