Grounded by a shared understanding of the power of knowledge in liberating the mind and being able to effectively self-actualize and self-advocate, the group’s main purpose is to support youth development and holistic healing.
BarrioEdProject receives grant from Cottonwood Foundation
BarrioEdProject is delighted to share that in February 2021, we received a grant from the Cottonwood Foundation, a private foundation that “supports organizations that are working for a better future for people, animals, and the community of life on Earth,” to support the launch of our Nourishing Sanctuary/Santuario Nutritivo project. We are extremely grateful to […]
Summer Reading of Rethinking Ethnic Studies
Summer Reading Series Announcement Join Chris Rogers & Edwin Mayorga in a reading of Rethinking Ethnic Studies (RES) from Rethinking Schools! Built around the themes of indigeneity, decolonization, anti-racism, and activism, RES offers vital resources for educators committed to the ongoing struggle for racial justice in our schools and the world. The book group will […]
BarrioEdProject: Youth Internship (Starts Summer 2019)
Research Culture Community Justice Are you interested in being part of a group where you will develop your leadership skills, think critically about your community, learn to do research, receive mentorship, and help make your community and school better for everyone? If so, apply to be an Education in our Barrios Project, #BarrioEdProject youth leader […]
11.29.18: School Closures and the Black Community: Panel & Eve Ewing Book Talk @ Uncle Bobbie’s
Free & Open to Public! Thursday, November 29, 2018, starting at 5pm at The People’s Sanctuary (Uncle Bobbie’s Coffee & Books). In 1978 education specialist Richard L. Andrews was quoted as saying “(O)nce a school is closed, the environmental forces of out-migration, population decline and neighborhood deterioration is set in motion. It is difficult, […]
Edwin Mayorga – Director
A child of Nicaraguan-Chinese immigrants, Edwin Mayorga, Ph.D. is a parent-educator-activist-scholar. He is an Assistant Professor of Educational Studies and Latin American and Latino Studies at Swarthmore College (PA). He is director of the Education in our Barrios Project (#BarrioEdProject), a youth participatory action research collaborative based in Latinx core communities in Philadelphia, and #CritEdPol, an online journal at […]
AL DÍA News: Taking on ‘Education in Our Barrios’
In March 2018, journalist Emily Neil writes about BarrioEdProject in AL DÍA News Taking on ‘Education in Our Barrios’ by Emily Neil Swarthmore professor Edwin Mayorga is leading an innovative method of researching and learning along with local undergraduate students and high schoolers from neighborhoods in North and South Philadelphia. For Edwin Mayorga and the Latinx youth that make up the Education in Our […]
Join Us 2.21.18 – Poetry in Context: Dos Encuentros with Dr. Eve L. Ewing
Join us at Swarthmore College and Amalgam Comics and Coffeehouse for two “encuentros” (encounters) with the amazing writer/scholar Dr. Eve L. Ewing! In Poetry in Context, Dr Ewing reads several poems from her book Electric Arches (Haymarket Press 2017) as well as other work, but also draws on her knowledge and work as a […]
Donate to BarrioEdProj
Help the Education in our Barrios Project, #BarrioEdProj, sustain and expand its impact on Latinx youth and communities in Philadelphia! We are raising funds to provide small stipends for high school youth, support our travel to meetings and college tours, pay for additional trainings, and move our upcoming survey research work forward. You can […]
Roberto Jimenez
Roberto Jimenez is a #BarrioEdPHL Co-Researcher pursuing a major in Psychology and Educational Studies and a minor in Peace and Conflict Studies at Swarthmore College. He was born in Michoacán, México but was raised in Norwalk, Connecticut. He is passionate about immigrant rights, LGBTQ rights, intersectional feminism, antiracism, and puppies. In his spare time he […]