Empowering Global Citizens

toward providing a powerful, relevant, rigorous, and meaningful education
for all children that supports not only their individual growth but also the
development of their communities. She is the coeditor of the book Teaching
and Learning for the Twenty—first Century: Educational Goals, Policies, and
Curricula fiom Six Nations.

In pursuing her research interest in ways in which people from diverse
backgrounds can learn to work together and to leverage their collective
power for positive change in their communities, she was involved in a
multiyear, multisite study of education reform and community organiz—
ing in the United States, the results of which were published in the book
A Match on Dry Grass: Community Organizing as a Catalyst for School
Reform (Oxford University Press, 201 1). She has worked as a staff mem—
ber, consultant, and speaker with various human—rights and civic—educa—
tion organizations. She currently serves on the board of two nonprofits,
including Aaron’s Presents, an organization that offers grants to students
in grades eight and below to encourage positive development in those
students and in their communities. A former public high school English
teacher, she was nominated by her students for various teaching awards.
She has taught as an adjunct lecturer on the topics of nonprofit manage—
ment and multicultural education and also was a curriculum consultant
in the development of a kindergarten—through—twelfth grade global citi—
zenship education curriculum. Dr. Chung received her BA in English
literature from Harvard College and her master’s degrees in teaching and
curriculum (1999) and in international education policy (2007) from
the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her doctorate is also from
the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Her greatest sense of satisfaction has come from working with young people,
one of whom wrote the following to her at the end of a school year: “I
think I learned more about life in this class than in any other part of high
school. Thank you for not only teaching us to think critically but also hu—
manitarianly as a citizen of this world. When I talked about my vision of a

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