Ep. 4: Conversation with Sherry Nelson

This episode is a conversation with Sherry Nelson, recorded on August 16, 2020.

Sherry is a long-time activist and a teacher for Chicago Public Schools. She teaches 8th grade in Little Village, a Chicago neighborhood in which the vast majority of the residents are of Mexican descent. 

The conversation begins with Sherry's background as an educator and then quickly turns to U.S. foreign policy in Central and South America. Sherry has been an activist most of her life, and saw first-hand the effects of U.S. foreign policy in Nicaragua (which she visited briefly in the late 1980s) and in El Salvador (where she lived for 1 and 1/2 years in the mid-1990s). While in college, she also studied abroad in Ecuador and Mexico.

During the last half hour of the show, we turn to current events—specifically COVID, the "virtual" re-opening of Chicago Public Schools in the fall, and what it means for parents, teachers, and students. 

Enjoy. 

Music for this episode: Good Night by Siobhan Dakay (c) copyright 2019 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/SiobhanD/60107 Ft: MyVanillaworld

Episode art: Photograph by yours truly.