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Jane Elliott is a citizen of The United States of America. She is a lecturer and a diversity educator. Her focus is leading people out of the ignorance of education. As a schoolteacher, she became known for her "Blue eyes/Brown eyes" exercise. She first conducted her famous exercise for her class on April 5, 1968, the day after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. When her local newspaper published compositions that the children had written about the experience, the reactions (both positive and negative) formed the basis for her career as a public speaker against discrimination. Elliott's classroom exercise was filmed the third time she held it with her third-graders in 1970, becoming the documentary The Eye of the Storm. This in turn inspired a retrospective that reunited the 1970 class members with their teacher fifteen years later in "A Class Divided", an episode of the PBS series Frontline. After leaving her school, Elliott became a full-time diversity educator. She still holds the exercise and gives lectures about its effects all over the U.S. as well as in several locations overseas. She has conducted the exercise with college students, as seen in the 2001 documentary The Angry Eye.Source: PBS |Frontline https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/an-unfinished-crusade-an-interview-with-jane-elliott/  Learn more about Jane Elliot here: https://janeelliott.com/ True North Podcast & MAKER AMSTERDAM would like to thank Sublab for generously contributing 'Rising From The Ashes' as the True North theme songFind out more about Sublab's work on Spotify and on Instagram True North World Podcast is a division of MAKER MAGAZINE | PODCASTLearn more about MAKER hereFollow True North World Podcast on InstagramTrue North World Podcast is produced by Orlando H. Jousset: Instagram

Martín Espada was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1957. He has published more than twenty books as a poet, editor, essayist and translator. His forthcoming book of poems from Norton is called Floaters.Other books of poems include Vivas to Those Who Have Failed (2016), The Trouble Ball (2011), The Republic of Poetry (2006), Alabanza (2003), A Mayan Astronomer in Hell’s Kitchen (2000), Imagine the Angels of Bread (1996), City of Coughing and Dead Radiators (1993) and Rebellion is the Circle of a Lover’s Hands (1990). He is the editor of What Saves Us: Poems of Empathy and Outrage in the Age of Trump (2019). His many honors include the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Shelley Memorial Award, the Robert Creeley Award, the National Hispanic Cultural Center Literary Award, an American Book Award, an Academy of American Poets Fellowship, the PEN/Revson Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship. The Republic of Poetry was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His book of essays and poems, Zapata’s Disciple (1998), was banned in Tucson as part of the Mexican-American Studies Program outlawed by the state of Arizona, and reissued by Northwestern University Press. A former tenant lawyer, Espada is a professor of English at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Learn more about Mr. Espada here: http://www.martinespada.net/and here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/martin-espada Special thanks to Robin Van Westerlaak and Alan's Breakfastfor generously providing the song Allt I Lagi for Martín Espada's episode.Learn more about Alan's Breakfast here:https://www.instagram.com/alansbreakfastofficial/?hl=nlhttps://open.spotify.com/album/1jqYR7zDWrKY4CTex0rEMZ?si=2uFt231gRDO5OxeXhG6qLgMix: Rogier Trompwww.rogiertromp.nl True North World Podcast is a division of MAKER MAGAZINE | PODCASTLearn more about MAKER hereFollow True North World Podcast on InstagramTrue North World Podcast is produced by Orlando H. Jousset: Instagram

Learn more about Mr. Steiner's newest ventures here:The Steiner Agency (www.TheSteinerAgency.com) and CollectibleXchange (www.CollectibleXchange.com) True North Podcast & MAKER AMSTERDAM would like to thank Sublab for generously contributing 'Rising From The Ashes' as the True North theme songFind out more about Sublab's work on Spotify and on Instagram True North World Podcast is a division of MAKER MAGAZINE | PODCASTLearn more about MAKER hereFollow True North World Podcast on InstagramTrue North World Podcast is produced by Orlando H. Jousset: InstagramTrue North World Podcast is produced by Orlando H. Jousset: Instagram