Janel George\, a recipient of the &ldquo\; Illuminating Black Lives Fellowship&rdquo\; from the Writers&rsquo\; Colon y at Dairy Hollow\, in collaboration with the Washington County Community Remembrance Project\, will facilitate a writing workshop examining issues of race and history. The workshop will encourage attendees to reflect upon people and experiences from their past as they learn about memorializing through writing. Participants will have the opportunity to engage in diffe rent forms of writing to explore memories\, including journaling\, persona l narrative/essay and poetry. Participants will also explore issues of rac e and remembering and learn how writing can be a vehicle for healing\, tru th-telling and community-building.
\nJanel George i s a Senior Policy Advisor from Arlington\, VA. She works on issues related to educational equity and access. George has over a decade of experience working on legislative and policy advocacy and analysis\, including as Leg islative Counsel in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. She also worked as an attorney with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fu nd\, including work on reforming discriminatory school discipline practice s. She also taught self-designed courses\, including a course focused on r acial justice in K&ndash\;12 public education law and policy\, with George town University's McCourt School of Public Policy. George received a B.A. in English from Spelman College\, where she was inspired by the work of Bl ack women writers and was a member of the Toni Cade Bambara Writers. She r eceived a J.D. from the University of Wisconsin Law School.
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