Bettina L. Love Biography
Bettina L. Love is an American writer and professor. She is the William F. Russell Professor at Teachers College, Columbia University, where she has been active in developing abolitionist education in schools.
Bettina L. Love Age
She was born and raised in the United States of America.
Bettina L. Love Education
Love was born in Rochester, New York. Love earned a Bachelor of Science in Liberal Studies from the University of Pittsburgh in 2001. She received her MEd in Elementary Education from the University of Pittsburgh in 2002. She earned a PhD in Educational Policy Studies from Georgia State University in 2008.
Bettina L. Love Family
Attempts to establish the identities of her family, her mother, and her father were in vain since no information about them is available to the public. It’s therefore not known whether she has any siblings.
Bettina L. Love Career
Love’s academic employment included teaching at Northern Kentucky University from 2009 to 2011. She served as an assistant professor in the University of Georgia’s Department of Educational Theory & Practice from 2011 to 2015. Since 2015, she has been an associate professor of education at the University of Georgia. Her writing, research, teaching, and activism focus on race, education, abolition, and black joy. Love is interested in how educators may collaborate with parents and communities to create communal, civically engaged schools built on abolitionist teaching, with the goal of achieving intersectional social justice for equitable classrooms that love and affirm black and brown students. In 2020, Love co-founded the Abolitionist Teaching Network (ATN) to help teachers and parents combat injustice in their classrooms and communities.
In 2014, she was invited to the White House Research Conference on Girls to address her research on the lives of black girls. In 2016, Love was designated the Nasir Jones Hiphop Fellow at Harvard University’s Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, in recognition of her contributions to hip hop education. In April 2017, Love attended a one-on-one public talk with Bell Hooks on liberatory education. In 2018, the Georgia House of Representatives awarded Love with a resolution in recognition of her contributions to education. She has also written comments for NPR, Ed Week, The Guardian, and the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
Bettina L. Love Books
She has written two books: We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom, and Hip Hop’s Li’l Sistas Speak: Negotiating Hip Hop Identities and Politics in the New South. Her work has been published in several books and periodicals, including the English Journal, Urban Education, The Urban Review, and the Journal of LGBT Youth.
Bettina L. Love Net Worth
Love has an estimated net worth of 500 thousand dollars.