Ana Maria Branden, Project Support

I’ve always had a passion for public education, starting with my position as a daycare teacher’s assistant working with children ages six months to five years old. I gained a deep appreciation for teachers who are in a position to guide and witness the rapid growth, intellectually and physically, children go through at incredibly impressionable years of their life, and I realized I found incredible joy assisting children/learners through this educational journey. I left working with young children to work in college admissions at Southern New Hampshire University, assisting learners of all ages beginning their college career. I’m also a student at Southern NH University, majoring in English, Language and Literature to pursue a career as a middle-school English teacher.

I believe everyone deserves basic human rights such as: education, health care, housing, union representation, etc. I don’t believe these necessities should be regulated to those fortunate enough, but should be available to everyone to have a functioning society without homelessness, unemployment, illiteracy, police brutality, all things that plague U.S. students and their families daily, hindering their educational development and potential. 

I hope New Hampshire students, teachers and all community members see Educating for Good as an avenue to better their local public schools by voicing their concerns, ideas and putting them into action. As Assata Shakur puts it - “Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them”.