Meet the ACOE Chicago Team

Below are the team members and the work groups that each member will focus on during the Summit:

Adrian Kirk – Director, ACOE Student Programs and Services

Adrian directs our ACOE schools that include incarcerated, transitional, suspended, expelled, foster and pregnant/parenting youth

Action Group: Saving African American Children from the Prison Pipeline

Dr. Shene Onye –  Director of the statewide California Healthy Kids Resource Center (CHKRC) and the California After School Resource Center (CASRC).
Shene's work provides research-based health education resources, professional development opportunities, and technical assistance to schools, districts, community-based organizations, and other agencies working with preschool through 12th grade students in California. 
Action Group: Indentifying/Implementing Culturally Connected Teaching, Learning, Curriculum and Assessment & Engaging and Partnering with Other Non-Educational Organizations & Allies

 
Joe Hudson – Region 4 After School Program Manager

Joe Hudson is currently the Region 4 Lead & Program Manager for Before and Afterschool Programs. Joe has throughout his nearly 30 years of public education experience shown a special interest, proven commitment and expertise in providing services to low-income, multi-cultural, multi-lingual, and disadvantaged student, families and communities.

Action Group:  Saving the African American Child: Mentoring and Cultural Immersion Beyond the Schoolhouse

Unique Holland – Director of Communications & Public Affairs

Unique will support the team using on-line and social media to connect national resources and speakers to ongoing professional learning, networking and leadership to assure that resources are allocated to serve most the children that are currently at highest risk for drop out, prison and poverty

Action Group: Creating/Certifying a Network of 1,000 African-centered Schools & Indentifying/Implementing Culturally Connected Teaching, Learning, Curriculum and Assessment

Also supporting team ACOE is Daphne Muse – Writer, Scholar, Activist - who will provide anchor blogging and critical reflection and interface and to tie the interests of diverse ACOE stakeholders together with a core commitment to the African American Child.