79. Building Educational Equity Across the Border with guest Kate Curran

<span style="font-weight: 400;">There’s a lot of talk about inequity in the U.S. these days and from the educational perspective, the inequity is real. Our colorful, mismatched kids who don’t fit into the traditional educational setting typically have to look elsewhere for support.</span> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But educational inequity on a global scale is equally troubling. There are schools and communities without technology, books, or even electricity, which makes teaching and learning an even bigger challenge.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today’s guest decided to do something about that. After a series of life-altering events, she took a hiatus from her job as an attorney and traveled to South America to heal. What she discovered was a deep desire to help underserved communities and children. And School the World was born.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Listen in to hear how Kate is ensuring that equity is a conversation we’re having both in the U.S. and across the globe.</span></p> <h2> </h2> <h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">About Kate Curran:</span></h2> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kate Curran left her career as an attorney in 2007 to travel the world. Her personal call to action followed the sudden death of her brother, father and mother in under two years. Her mother’s last words, “I’ve had a great life,” and her father’s lifelong commitment to public service inspired her to begin a journey to define “a great life” that took her across four continents.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For Kate, her year-long journey was a course in gratitude: gratitude for the majesty of the world evident in Patagonia’s Glaciers National Park, gratitude for the sacrifices of others so evident in Normandy, and gratitude for the sacrifices her parents made for her own education. But it was the 12 children sharing one pencil in a Tanzanian classroom, the young children working under the hot Andes sun, and the children crossing through crocodile-infested water