Educators of Color Panel: Stories, Dialogue & Restoration

The Coalition to Increase Teachers of Color and American Indian Teachers in Minnesota

Educators of Color: Stories, Dialogue & Restoration

Date: Saturday, May 17, 2025
Time: 9:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Location: Aŋpétu Téča Education Center, Fairview Room

1910 County Road B West

Roseville, MN 55113

You're Invited!

Join us for a powerful day of community, healing, and truth-telling. This is more than just a panel. It's a space for collective restoration. Together, we’ll honor the work of educators of color, uplift each other’s voices, and build strategies for real change in our schools and systems.

Let’s listen, learn, reflect, and act together with this wonderful panel!

Panelists:

Roberta Hernandez – Roseville Area Schools, MN

Roseville Area Schools Affinity Group FOCUS, facilitator/Elementary Reading Interventionist
Co-founding group of FOCUS in 2006, lived through many different versions of this group, currently grant-supported
Co-founder of Restoring Our Roots, MN affinity group, ITOC connected, and grant-supported

Verna Wong – Champlin Park High School, Minneapolis, MN

Works at Champlin Park High School
Founding member of AHTOCC (2013-2024)
Doctoral student at University of Minnesota

Meng Yang – Champlin Park High School, Champlin Park, MN

Champlin Park, MNEnglish Teacher at Champlin Park High School

AVID Program Coordinator

Adjunct Faculty at Augsburg University

Co-founder member of AHTOCC (2013 - 2024)

Co-founder member of Champlin Park HS, Educators of Color Collaborative Team (2020 - Current)

Moderador: Mauricio Montes de Oca

Experience Healing and Renewal
As part of our program, we are excited to welcome Priscilla Momah. A gifted Sound Healer and Wellness Instructor, who will guide us through a powerful meditation session.

It is a free event, and CEUs are available