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Dena Simmons

Sep 18, 2026

28:28
And
28:29
It was beautiful for educators to say.
28:32
We asked them to introduce themselves and to say why their hair.
28:35
They were like, I'm just looking for community where I can be who I am, where I can be among people who accept me.
28:42
And it was sort of the same things that children want, adults want.
28:46
Adults also want to feel free to be who they are.
28:50
And we know at Liberate Ed that educator well-being is correlated to student well-being and that if we want to take care of our students, we also have to take care of our educators.

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44:16
Is there anything, Dina, that you wanted us to talk about that we didn't touch on? Anything that you want to name or mention that we did not discuss?

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