The YEA! Crew
Project Director:
Adrienne Carey Hurley (Asian Languages and Literature)
Performance Ethnographer and Public Policy Outreach Coordinator:
Vershawn Ashanti Young (Rhetoric)
YEA! Session Instructors:
Adrienne Hurley (Asian Languages and Literature)
Y'Shanda Rivera (Educational Consultant, Technology Coordinator and Dean of Students at Grant
Community Academy - Chicago Public Schools)
Vanessa Shelton (Journalism)
Carla Wilson (Filmmaker)
Vershawn Ashanti Young (Rhetoric and African American Studies)
YEA! Graduate Assistant:
Daniel Chornet Roses
YEA! Webmaster:
Nicholas Taylor
Videography:
Daniel Chornet Roses
Carla Wilson
Consultants and Partners:
Sean Baylor, McKinley Middle School, Cedar Rapids
Jim Behle, Associate Superintendent, Iowa City Community School District
Valerie Garr, Director, Diversity Relations and Outreach and Asst. Director of Admissions (UI)
Tamara Ho, Women's Studies and English (UI)
Nancy Humbles, Multicultural Affairs Coordinator, Office of the Provost/Opportunity at Iowa (UI)
Brad Richardson, DMC Coordinator, DMC Resource Center, UI School of Social Work and National Resource
Center for Family Centered Practice
Caleb Thomas, Grant Wood Elementary School, Iowa City
Curriculum Coordinator:
David Martinez, Department of English, UCLA
YEA! Volunteers
Andy Adams
Allyson Elliott
Tiera Gibbs
Rayell Grayson
Sarah McNew
John Nedved
Alicia Taylor
Tiffany Wheatland
Additional Thanks:
Three Rivers Press for donating copies of Aaron McGruder's book: A Right to be Hostile
Members of the WTS group who donated their time to designing this site
John Nedved, designer of the YEA! logo
ColorLines Magazine for generously providing copies of their publication to YEA! youth
