About the Founding Co-Editors Benjamin Mchie is founder and executive director of the African American Registry®. He approaches the opening concept of Journal of The Registry with over 50 combined years of anti-racism work. Julie Landsman comes to the Registry as an activist and writer. She taught in the Minneapolis Public Schools for 28 years. Her book A White Teacher Talks About Race is used in classrooms today. Yvonne RB-Banks, Ed.D. comes to the Journal of the Registry editorial Board with over 35 years in public and private education; as teacher, professor and administrator. Her travels, both domestically and internationally allow her to explore many diverse topics.
The purpose of our classroom service is to diversely strengthen the curriculum and needed pedagogy of licensed and pre-service teachers. This builds a foundation of superior education through understanding culturally responsive curriculums direct benefit from the content of African American Registry.
Street Team programs represent a crucial part of our goal of ‘Curriculum Reform and Giving Youth a Guided Voice’. We also require College students and/or community members to learn how to implement and carry on our program. That way we instill buy-in for each community to invest in themselves. If you would like more information or to create a Street Team in your community contact the Registry at 612-822-6831 or email us at info@aaregistry.org.
