Bettina Love: Restoring Humanity in K-12 Classrooms and Beyond

Bettina Love, the William F. Russell Professor at Teachers College, Columbia University, has made numerous contributions to the field of education, specifically abolitionist teaching and antiracism. In 2020, she cocreated a nonprofit organization called the Abolitionist Teaching Network (ATN). ATN provides education and financial resources to help teachers and families fight racial injustice in their communities and schools. In 2022, she developed the Old 4th Ward Economic Security Task Force with the Atlanta City Council. This task force launched In Her Hands, a financial assistance program designed to provide guaranteed income to Black women residing in Atlanta. Love is also the author of two books, We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom and Hip-Hop’s Li’l Sistas Speak: Negotiating Hip-Hop Identities and Politics in the New South. She has also provided commentary to a variety of news organizations, such as National Public Radio, PBS, and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.