Amelia

Amelia spent seven years serving as a high school English teacher in Columbus, Ohio. While teaching, she began a non-profit named Erase the Space with a teacher from a neighboring school district. Erase the Space gives students from disparate backgrounds an opportunity to practice democratic discourse and collaboration across difference. Erase the Space is currently being studied by the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at The Ohio State University and will impact nearly 300 students this school year.  Amelia’s article on her work was published in the English Journal in March 2019; she and her Erase the Space partner also wrote a chapter on bringing empathy into online discourse that will be published in a text on digital ethics in early 2020. 

Amelia is a proud graduate of The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio (B.A., M.Ed.), and the Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College (M.A.). She grew up in Loudoun County, Virginia, spent 13 years in Columbus, Ohio, and returned to Washington in August to be closer to family. She currently substitute teaching for District of Columbia Public Schools and working on Erase the Space.

Amelia and her husband live with their cat, Vincent van Gogh Gordon, in D.C. Outside of education advocacy and spending time with young people, she loves to read, take exercise classes, travel, and go to concerts.