Fairuze Ahmed Ramirez shares how her identity & lived experience inform her commitment to teach liberatory writing, empowering students to draw on personal, family, & community stories to challenge dominant narratives, & express voices that are often ignored, excluded, or misrepresented. Her approach centers lived experience & community knowledge as meaningful sources of understanding, ethical storytelling, cultural respect, integrity, & accountability to historically marginalized communities.

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