Tabitha Lake

Disclaimer: While place descriptions and news events may coincide with the real world, all characters and the plot are fictional.
== Biography ==
=== Early Years ===
=== Education ===
=== Employment ===
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Ms Lake teaches middle school (i.e. Grades 6 to 8).
=== Eyewitness News ===
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On Tuesday October 13, 2020 Tabitha Lake is interviewed by J.J. Jones outside the Portland federal building as a Black Lives Matter activist.
The following Saturday, J.J. interviews Tabitha again at the downtown BLM protest. She says the protest feels like a street fair, and she wonders if the message gets lost. At the same time, she appreciates that people keep coming back. She would have like to have been at a protest in India, where thousands of people stood quietly with lit candles. A couple of years before, one of her previous students had been killed by police, suspected of armed robbery. He was only 17, and was shot 3 three times in the head as police made him crawl towards them. She thinks that the American justice system has something broken, where cops have a license to kill, and they think Black men or the mentally ill are fair game.
== Physical Appearance ==
Tabitha is about 30-years-old, a tall Black woman with a lot of curves - some might say statuesque. She wears her black hair cropped tight against her skull.
== Personality ==
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== Relationships ==
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When the university president asks EWN in early January 2021 to coordinate a teach-in day on Oregon's racial history, J.J. brings fresh ideas on a collaboration between university and middle school students. He invites Tabitha Lake to EWN to discuss the project with Cage. As well as making it a better learning experience for everyone, he sees this as a way of combating the influence of white supremacy groups on young students. Middle school teaching techniques are more hands-on than the usual lecture style offered at university level, including music, poetry, writing sessions. Cage is impressed and introduces Tabitha to Andrew McShane, who also likes the concept and asks Tabitha to be the middle school liaison. She agrees to taking a half-time absence from her school to be involved in the Teach-In project.
When Ryan warns her to be careful about safety, she reminds him that middle schools do shooter drills every term.
Tabitha is present for the march to the EWN building on January 9, 2021. She suggests that a soapbox be part of the teach-in, possibly for the middle school children to build one in their classrooms. There can be a contest for the best one, and a display of them all over the PSU campus.
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