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Jieling (she/her) is a senior at Brookline High School. She is passionate about social justice and education equity. Jieling finds that reading, writing, and journaling are practices that help her care for herself, so it only makes sense that one of Jieling’s favorite places in Brookline is the Brookline High School Library.

“SCL is a unique opportunity to not only help support students, but also teachers. For me, SCL means that I can also be someone who can educate others on issues students often face.”

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Who is a justice figure you want to uplift?

I want to uplift Keira Flynn-Carson (BHS School Within a School English Teacher) for her work in not only teaching a social justice class, but also incorporating justice themes in everything she teaches. She is incredibly dedicated to student empowerment, and constantly pushes myself and other students to think outside of the box, and think more deeply about issues that are present in society.

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Vi (they/them) is a student at San Fransisco State University, planning to graduate in 2027 with a degree in Asian American Studies & Political Science. At SFSU, Vi is also part of the Student Union and minors in Criminal Justice, Race & Resistance Studies, and Queer & Trans Ethnic Studies. They graduated from BHS in 2023.

“Working towards a more complete English and Social Studies curriculum were some of the foundational things that got me involved in organizing and led me down the path I am currently on both personally and in my education and future career.”

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Who is a justice figure you want to uplift?

Grace Lee Boggs is someone I look up to a lot as a Chinese American and as someone involved in socialist movements. Her work has been key for me to better understand past movements through the lens of someone with a somewhat similar background as myself.

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Lily (they/he/she) is a recent grad of Pace University in New York City (2026) with a double major in Peace and Justice Studies and Women and Gender Studies (and minors in Critical Race and Ethnicity Studies, Queer Studies, Theater for Social Justice, and Nonprofit Studies). Before graduating from Brookline High School in 2022, they served as president of APAC where they started their work as a community organizer. They were also a Millennium Fellow in 2023, pursuing an earlier version of this project.

“I believe that students deserve to learn how to make change and that providing more access to resources that allow them to do that is the key to more effective activism in our communities.”

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Who is a justice figure you want to uplift?

Paolo Freire is a Brazilian pedagogist and author of Pedagogy of the Oppressed (among other publications), which has been a big inspiration for a lot of our work and my research personally!

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Sarah (any pronouns) is a junior at Brookline High School, where they are Vice President of the BHS Drama Society. Sarah enjoys acting and video games.

“I'm very interested in helping create a curriculum that could potentially be used for multiple years. While I do think research is important, I think what's more important is using the information from the research to create a way to inform others of what we learned so that information can be passed around through multiple circles of people of many walks of life. The information is of much less use if the research is kept solely for those conducting it. With the knowledge we're gathering and putting together in the curriculum, I aim to help build a class that can change someone's view of the world for the better.“

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Who is a justice figure you want to uplift?

I want to uplift the women who began the Tisema movement in Ethiopia because the current violence against women there is absolutely terrifying and they're incredibly brave for protesting.

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Char (they/them) is a junior at Brookline High School. One of their favorite places in Brookline is Griggs Park and they love getting dim sim with their family.

“I am interested in joining this project to gain a better understanding of the social dynamics within the Brookline community. I hope to learn skills to benefit my own personal studies by contributing to this research.“

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Who is a justice figure you want to uplift?

I want to uplift Greta Thunberg because of her recent work in activism to provide humanitarian aid for those in Palestine.