T. Elijah Hawkes has been a public school teacher and principal for more than two decades. He has worked in rural and urban school communities, including Randolph Union in Central Vermont, and the James Baldwin School in New York City, where he was founding principal.

In addition to New England and New York City, he has lived and worked in Senegal and Benin.

In July, 2020, Hawkes joined the faculty of the Upper Valley Educator Institute as the Director of School Leadership Programs.

He is a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association’s Schools Committee and Senior Education Advisor to the Polarization and Extremism Research Lab (PERIL) at American University.

His writings about adolescence, public schools and democracy have appeared in various books and publications. He is the author of two books: School for the Age of Upheaval: Classrooms that Get Personal, Get Political and Get to Work (2020) and Woke Is Not Enough: School Reforms for Leaders with Justice in Mind (2022).

On Twitter: @ElijahHawkes