Our Founder
Adrielle Turner is a multi-lingual matriculated doctoral student at Columbia University Teachers College. She began her undergraduate career studying Linguistics at California State University San Bernardino, followed by a post-baccalaureate in Communicative Disorders at the University of Houston, and then pursued her Masters of Education with emphasis on Deaf and Hard of Hearing Education, Autism Spectrum Disorders and Deaf-Blind Education at the John Tracy Clinic/Keck Otolaryngology USC in Los Angeles. She began her work in the Los Angeles Unified School District at a title I school teaching Preschool in an auditory oral environment. Then she proceeded to work in a private school located in New York City while pursuing her PhD in Physical DIsabilities, Neuroscience applications to education, and Critical Race Theory. Upon her experiences in New York City, She quickly became aware of the need for Black Educators and the poor facilitation of such culturally rich insight in predominately white school systems. “We only seek black, bilingual individuals to fill entry-level positions but never to lead”. After years in the classroom, she took on administrative roles in early childhood, and public and private education. As her professional experiences let her to observe more gaps in learning and access, she became interested in changing her focus in Physical Disabilities to an interdisciplinary PhD combining Art, Curriculum and Teaching, and Intersectionality/CRT.
Adrielle is inspired by leadership and has formally and informally worked in graduate advising, mentorship, and facilitation of projects involved with the Teacher Opportunity Corps at Teacher’s College as it adds purpose to her experiences of microinvalidations and microaggressions through her graduate studies and most recent experiences in the classroom.
Adrielle’s initiative to bring students of all abilities and experiences into view with various art forms is fueled by the lack of representation of culturally relevant work, the lack of exposure to the art world in traditional education, and the need to meet the student’s interdisciplinary needs in a more creative way.
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Adrielle Turner MSEd
Founder, Mentor, Teacher, Phd Student