Was Live Friday, October 24, 2025 | 11am PST
Guest Speakers
- Gabrielle Oliveira, Jorge Paulo Lemann Associate Professor of Education and Brazil Studies at the Harvard Graduate School of Education
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Event Overview
Amid the many hardships of migration, separation, uncertainty, and starting over, families often find hope in their children’s education. In Now We Are Here: Family Migration, Children’s Education, and Dreams for a Better Life, Harvard scholar Gabrielle Oliveira shows how parents see schooling as a “currency of love”, a way to give meaning to sacrifice and to invest in a more stable future for their children.
Her research exposes the emotional and moral dimensions of migration too often missed in policy debates, revealing how classrooms become spaces where families negotiate trauma, identity, and belonging—and where schools can either deepen exclusion or open doors to dignity and possibility.
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