Jesse Hagopian

Jesse Hagopian is a member of the Black Lives Matter at School steering committee and teaches Ethnic Studies at Seattle's Garfield High School. Jesse is an editor for Rethinking Schools magazine, the co-editor of the book Teaching for Black Lives , and the editor of the book More Than a Score: The New Uprising Against High Stakes Testing . Jesse is a recipient of the 2013 "Secondary School Teacher of the Year" award and the Special Achievement "Courageous Leadership" award from the Academy of...See more

Jesse Hagopian is a member of the Black Lives Matter at School steering committee and teaches Ethnic Studies at Seattle's Garfield High School. Jesse is an editor for Rethinking Schools magazine, the co-editor of the book Teaching for Black Lives , and the editor of the book More Than a Score: The New Uprising Against High Stakes Testing . Jesse is a recipient of the 2013 "Secondary School Teacher of the Year" award and the Special Achievement "Courageous Leadership" award from the Academy of Education Arts and Sciences. In 2015, Jesse received the Seattle/King County NAACP Service Award. Jesse serves as the Director of the Black Education Matters Student Activist Award. See less