Join us for “EMBRACING UNITY THROUGH DIVERSITY AND IMPERFECTIONS”
Keynote Session – jamele Adams, Director for Love, Inclusion & Trust, Scituate Public Schools
“Love how you love who you love” -JMA
Proudly embracing membership in the community of Scituate and the educational family of its schools, jamele serves as the DEI Director for the District of Scituate Public Schools. Spelling his name with lowercase letters, he does so to signal that he is a piece in life’s grand landscape for us all.
Arriving at Scituate from Brandeis University, where he served as Dean of Students, along with specific responsibilities for student’s campus life experience, he pioneered and supported programs that celebrated and enhanced campus pluralism.
jamele also served as the Director for New York Yankees Derek Jeter’s “Jeter’s Leaders,” a program in the Derek Jeter Turn 2 Foundation. In this role, jamele oversaw a unique leadership program that supports high school-age students in New York City.
Recipient of many awards and recognitions for his work in higher education, with young scholars interested in law and creative writing workshops, he is also a nationally celebrated poet.
jamele remains well known for his work engaging issues of diversity, equity and inclusion. Through his L.I.T. platform and model; love, inclusion and trust serve as the basis for human connection while addressing h8 and bias. jamele is often called to high schools to assist in navigating complex terrains of injustice and help student communities after bias incidents have occurred.
Known for his work, jamele is often asked to be a panelist or to give presentations on a broad range of topics regarding diversity, equity, inclusion and pluralism. Accompanying the aforementioned are requests for him to prepare presentations in response to very specific incidents or conditions regarding diversity, equity and inclusion. jamele appears at multitudes of public and private schools, school districts and college campuses every year.
Consider this a brief biography into the evolving professional narrative and life calling for jamele adams. jamele subscribes to the mantra “ALWAYS WE, never me.”
Marina Youssef, MA PTA Advocacy Chair
Marina is a student at Boston College studying economics and international studies on the pre-law track. In her free time, she enjoys reading about education reform on both the state and federal levels, and researching what can be done in order to foster a proper educational environment that is welcoming, nurturing, and safe.
While new to the position, she plans to look into how education is impacted in light of the new presidential and congressional administrations and how PTA can get involved.
In the past, Marina has been involved with Project 351 as an ambassador to Hopkinton, through which she worked with other amazing organizations like Cradles to Crayons to serve the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and organized fundraisers on the local level. She is very excited to continue her efforts through Massachusetts PTA as the advocacy chair and is excited to be part of an amazing team.
