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Debbie Lee Keenan

Debbie Lee Keenan

Co-founder and co-director of Anti-Bias Leaders ECE, early childhood education consultant, lecturer, author, and former director of Tufts University's Eliot-Pearson Children's School (1996–2013).

Sep 23, 2026

11:52
So, I'd just love to get your reaction to what Marie just shared with us.
11:58
I feel so honored to be in your presence, for both of you, but Marie in particular, for sharing that story.
12:06
For me also, to hearing it firsthand.
12:08
And I need to say that those of you in Minnesota and Minneapolis, of course, are the helpers and are the heroes for all of us in the United States, as well as around the world.
12:20
When we saw how you all transformed your resistance to what was going on, it was a model for everyone.
12:27
Just so to be right here, to be able to tell you that personally is very powerful.
12:32
As you were talking, I'm nodding my head here, but all of the things we talked about, taking cues from children...

6 MINS LATER

18:26
So what would you recommend for educators that are not steeped in this like Marie is? What do you recommend to them to get comfortable? How do you get comfortable to have those conversations like Marie just explained to us?

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