Wendy Thomas and Thajilah Olaiya

Tajilah describes meeting Wendy, and encouraging her to run a triathlon. She’s still trying to get Wendy to do one with her.

Wendy’s parents moved a lot when she was young to get her access to better schools, so as a child it was hard for Wendy to talk about any problems she was having, since she knew how much her parents were sacrificing for her benefit. Thajilah identifies with that feeling too.

Thajilah took gender and ethnic studies courses in college, and through that learned the language and vocabulary to express what she was feeling, and realizing that these were not unique feelings to her.

Discussion of global education, and how to engage students in the world.

Thajilah’s intense conversation with a student who had failed her class, and was in danger of failing it again. Bringing up the statistics about prison rates to the kid.