Peta Lindsay
Peta Lindsay is a lifelong leader in grassroots organizing, an award-winning secondary educator and a leader in developing and implementing student-centered, culturally responsive and empowering education for diverse youth. She currently teaches history, Ethnic Studies and African American Studies courses for Los Angeles public schools. Lindsay is a frequent speaker and leader in education conferences and workshops. As an experienced organizer and educator, she is able to offer both framework and practical tips for empowering diverse students through social science education in the secondary classroom.
Lindsay has collaborated with leading educational organizations like the UCLA History-Geography Project, the UC Davis History Project, the ONE Archives Foundation and the Zinn Education Project, in leading trainings and creating classroom resources that center multicultural, people’s history and movements for justice and liberation. Since January of 2021 she has been a featured speaker at educational conferences hosted by: Howard University, Harvard University, UC Davis and the Carter Center for K-12 Black Education. She also frequently provides culturally-responsive feedback for Black history curriculum and educational materials. Email to inquire about rates.
Lindsay is also the founder and Director of the Ida B. Wells Education Project, a Black-led multicultural collective of classroom educators, dedicated to building the movement against racism in our schools and communities. Read more about the Ida B. Wells Education Project here!
See Lindsay’s full biography here.
See examples of educational leadership here.
See her media coverage and publications here.
See images of joy and resistance from her classroom here.
“Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other.”
— Paulo Freire
