SEED Associate Director Motoko Maegawa, along with Patricia Matos, a teacher at Greenwich Country Day School and a SEED staff member, will be holding an interactive workshop this week at the National Association of Independent Schools' People of Color Conference in Nashville, Tennessee.

Going to the National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME) Conference next week? We hope to see you at a session led by SEED Co-directors Gail Cruise-Roberson, Emmy Howe, and Jondou Chase Chen, "Stories for liberation: Laying the Foundation for Ongoing Conversations on Race and Gender in Schools."

We're delighted to republish this piece by Captain Rick Wester, Commandant of Cadets at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and a SEED leader. This article originally appeared in the October/November 2018 issue of The Bulletin, the magazine of the United States Coast Guard Academy Alumni Association.