Into the Stratosphere with Dr. Bishop and Friends: Episode I

Toby Kamps is former director of Blaffer Museum of Art, and curator of modern and contemporary art at the Menil Collection. He is now the director of external projects at White Cube Gallery and is an Editor-at-Large for the Brooklyn Rail.

Assistant Professor at the University of Buffalo, Gwendolyn Baxley, PhD focuses on critical qualitative and quantitative methodologies, exploring educational spaces in which Black youth and families survive, thrive, and navigate, and the role of race and AntiBlackness within these contexts. Her research investigates how school and community leaders cultivate nurturing, affirming spaces for Black youth as well as the structures, practices, and ideologies that facilitate or hinder the development of such spaces.

Native New Yorker and educator, Damaris Dunn is currently pursuing a doctoral degree at the University of Georgia’s Mary Frances Early College of Education. Her research interests are educational equity and Black girl joy.

An educator, writer, activist, and organizer, Carolyn Eanes teaches English at a high school in Brooklyn, NY.

is a radical educator, trainer, curriculum designer, youth worker, circle keeper, and community builder currently working for Girls for Gender Equity as the Director of Community Partnerships.

A high school English teacher and author of the novel Waking Slow, Ioanna Opidee lives in Newtown, Connecticut with her family.

An artist living and working in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Tamsen Wojtanowski explores the materiality of the photographic medium. Interested in where the medium of photography might overlap with painting, printmaking and installation, the resulting work oscillates between the abstract and the representational.

Having 15 years of experience as an activist/educator, Nassim Zerriffi regularly leads workshops for teachers on different aspects of social justice education. He teaches history and facilitates the 7th and 8th grade activism campaigns at Manhattan Country School.

Writer, researcher, professor, youth advocate, Nietzschean, and surf monk, Dr. Elizabeth Bishop is the author of two books, Becoming Activist (2015) and Embodying Theory (2018). She lives in Brooklyn with her dog, Messy.