Melanie N. Latson enters each space as a good troublemaker striving for black liberation through her work as a liberatory educator, community activist, and antiracist researcher. Equipping our youth with the powerful tools of advocacy, social consciousness, and activism as the Founder of March on Kid, Melanie marries activism with scholarship through her academic journey as a Doctoral student in Education Policy & Leadership at the American University. A bold thought leader deepening a public discourse that centers Racial Justice in Early Childhood, Melanie is a Public Voices Fellow of the OpEd Project as well as a Centering Black Women STEM Educators Fellow. Through her Afrofuturist lens, Melanie carries the voices and stories of the many communities she has served in a way that centers joy, imagination, sustainability and wellness to fuel authentic world-building.
