Kari-Lee Grant

Current Position: Teacher and Entrepreneur

Location: Long Island, New York, USA

Degrees: PhD in Educational Leadership

Areas of Interest: Linguistics, DEI, Education Research

Identifiers: Low income childhood, Caribbean

Mentorship Status: Yes, I'd like to be mentored by someone

Publications and/or Presentations: “Cultivating Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education Through Transformative Praxis:
Eliciting Equity for Excluded ELLs” - 2022 Long Island Teachers’ Institute, Long Island, NY (virtual), 3/22
“Ensuring Equitable Education for Immigrant Students from ‘English- Speaking’ Caribbean Countries” - World Education Research Association (WERA) 2019 Focal Meeting, Tokyo, Japan, 08/19
“Examining the Education of Immigrant Students from ‘English-Speaking’ Caribbean Countries in New York Schools” - 2018 American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, New York, NY, 04/18
“Legitimizing Languages: Claiming the Birthright of ‘Creole English’ and ‘Vernacular English’ Speakers in Learning Environments” - Complicated Conversations Series, Queens College, CUNY, Queens, NY, 12/16
“Improving the Education of Speakers of Caribbean Languages in New York City Public Schools” - Society for Caribbean Linguistics 21st Biennial Conference, Kingston, Jamaica, 08/16