Juliana Barnet - Interview 10-27-2015 - Final
Channel: Washington, D.C. Lessons of the Sixties
Date: 2019-08-20

Juliana Barnet is an artist, community organizer, anthropologist, and writer who grew up in Washington, DC in a socially conscious household after her family moved here in the early 60s during the Kennedy administration. After an education in public and private schools in Washington, DC, Juliana moved to Mexico for college, studied anthropology there, and participated in social justice activities in Mexico. Her special interests are alternative education and cultivating an “activist culture.” She has written a novel, Rainwood House Sings: A Social Justice Mystery, on this topic. Juliana Barnet describes growing up activist and artistic in Washington, DC, and includes her thoughts here about the public and private schools she attended.