Affinity Spaces and Collaboration
Director of Inclusivity & Community Building, Quise Rodriguez Edwards, is a member of The San Francisco Equity Leaders (SFEL), a cohort of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Directors from five Bay Area independent schools.
With SFEL, this year Quise will facilitate a six-part online workshop called Surviving and Sustaining: People of Color in Independent Schools for CATDC. CATDC, the California Teacher Development Collective, is an organization focused on empowering educators, connecting schools, and transforming education. This workshop is designed to encourage local collaboration and provide tangible takeaways that affirm the experiences of People of Color (PoC) in independent schools and the broader community.
We are proud to share a CATDC interview with Quise and another member of SFEL where she discusses the value of affinity spaces and collaboration. Burke’s offers affinity spaces to students in both the Lower and Upper School
Burke's mission is to educate, encourage and empower girls. Our school combines academic excellence with an appreciation for childhood so that students thrive as learners, develop a strong sense of self, contribute to community, and fulfill their potential, now and throughout life.
Burke's admits students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other school-administered programs.