#  Shantá Harrington 

 

 



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Shantá Harrington is a Presidential Scholar and Ph.D. student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is a proud native of the Southside of Chicago and has worked within schools, community centers and nonprofits to support the development, implementation and evaluation of out-of-school time programming for Chicago’s youth.

Her research interests examine historical and contemporary Black community-based education spaces as sites of pedagogical and organizational innovation — specifically how Black educational practitioners co-construct and circulate philosophies and pedagogies of freedom to navigate and transform sociopolitical contexts and institutional barriers to Black liberation.

She earned her EdM from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, an AM in Social Service Administration from the University of Chicago in their Leadership in Community Schools Program, and a BSW from the University of Missouri-Columbia (Mizzou).



 

 

 





 

 

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