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WHISPERshout is a 501(c)3 public charity.
Meet WHISPERshout’s Board of Directors!
President
Kareema Mitchell-Allen’s
love of poetry began in third grade, where she was encouraged to focus her usual daydreaming into reading and writing poems. So when, many years later, she encountered an opportunity to expose her own child to reading and writing poetry at her elementary school through an after school club run by WHISPERshout, she registered immediately. Kareema is an attorney and community volunteer, serving on the PTA Executive Board at her child's school, as well as the advisory committee of a nonprofit that centers maternal health research and education. She is excited to serve on the WHISPERshout Board and committed to helping it bring Poetry and Justice for All[!] to students in the community.
Vice President
Grace Lovelace Guishard
is a wife, mother, and educator. Her personal values of integrity, tenacity, and equity are woven through all areas of her life. As a teacher of 19 years, Grace is passionate about reading instruction, anti-racism education, bilingual education, and working with Title I families. Grace currently teaches at Brown Station Elementary School in Gaithersburg. Grace attended Brown Station as a child and had an immediate connection with her fellow teachers and students. She is presently working on a Post-Master’s Certificate in Dyslexia, Dysgraphia, and Dyscalculia to support students with these learning differences.
Secretary
Tabatha Yeatts
is a poet, editor, blogger, writer, and arts advocate. She's taught online poetry classes and summer camps, coordinated poetry swaps, facilitated arts competitions for students, written children's newspaper pages, orchestrated community outreach for theater and music groups, and created poetry resources for teachers. Her poems and articles have appeared in Cricket, Last Stanza Poetry Journal, Hedge Apple Magazine, Dirigible Balloon, Blue Jean Magazine, Logic Puzzles, The Christian Science Monitor, Atlanta 30306, and others. Her IMPERFECT poetry anthologies for middle schoolers have sold nearly 9,000 copies. Tabatha shares art, music, and poetry on her blog The Opposite of Indifference every week. She believes the arts are for everyone.
Treasurer
Alyson Foster
is an editor and the author of the novel God Is An Astronaut and the short story collection Heart Attack Watch. The creative writing instruction she received in elementary school was life-changing, and she wants all children to have the same opportunities she did. More about her work can be found at alysonfoster.com.
Feed the Kitty!🐱
Your tax-deductible donation supports WHISPERshout programming in two ways:
1) In the event that a grant application benefiting a Title I school is not funded (or if no Arts Education grants are available), WHISPERshout can still carry out the project using funds from the Donation🐱Kitty.
2) It allows WHISPERshout to offer low- or no-fee participation in afterschool/OST enrichment workshops to individual kids who are eligible for FARMS (Free and Reduced Meals) due to lower family income. Their fee is paid by funds from the Donation🐱Kitty.
Click the cover above to read an e-version of two WHISPERshout poetry anthologies, created in afterschool workshops…