Jesse Hagopian
Channel: Seattle Central College Activities Board
Date: 2016-05-10

Our campus is honored to be hosting Seattle Educator and Activist Jesse Hagopian next week. Jesse will be speaking about the Intersection of the Black Lives Matter movement and the struggles against corporate education reform. 
 
The event will be held in the Broadway Edison Building, Room 1110 on Tuesday, May 10th from 10:00-11:00 a.m.
 
Jesse Hagopian teaches history and is the adviser to the Black Student Union at Garfield High School–the site of the historic boycott of the MAP test in 2013–and is an associate editor for the acclaimed Rethinking Schools magazine. Jesse is the editor of, and contributing author to, More Than a Score: The New Uprising Against High-Stakes Testing, and won the 2013 “Secondary School Teacher of Year” award.
 
In January of 2015, Jesse Hagopian gave the final speech at Seattle’s Martin Luther King Day rally. Not long after, he was pepper-sprayed without provocation by an officer of the Seattle Police Department. The incident was captured on video by an onlooker, was the subject of news stories across the country, and garnered millions of views around the world.