SPEAKING OUT
University Lectures, Convenings, and Community Forums
Speaking Engagements
Watch Kristen’s debate at Harvard Graduate School of Education with Sarah Usdin, leader of New Schools for New Orleans, the city’s leading charter school incubator
Listen to Kristen’s interview with Sam Seder on his national podcast, Majority Report, where she discusses the charter school experiment in New Orleans and its troubling dynamics
Listen to Kristen’s interview with the National Council on Educating Black Children
Check out Kristen’s interview on New Orleans public schools with Milwaukee Public Radio (2015, March 26) at Analysts Say MPS Should Learn From, But Not Emulate New Orleans Recovery Schools | WUWM 89.7 FM – Milwaukee’s NPR
Check out Kristen’s interview on the implications of New Orleans school reform for Milwaukee by scrolling to March 24, 2015 at Show Archives for the Kathleen Dunn Show | Wisconsin Public Radio to download or link to interview
Glance through Kristen’s writings and interviews in The New Orleans Tribune
From Katrina to COVID-19: How disaster, federal neglect, and the market compound racial inequities
History rewritten: Masking the failure of the RSD [Recovery School District]
New Orleans education reform: A guide for cities or a warning for communities
Read Kristen’s interview with Jennifer Berkshire, “New Orleans: Miracle or mirage?,” in The Huffington Post.
Read Kristen’s interview with Peter Brogan for Against the Current, where she shares lessons from New Orleans
Check out Kristen’s article, “Charter Schools Flood New Orleans”
Buras, K. L. (2011). Challenging the master’s plan for the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans. Z Magazine, 24(5), 19-22
Buras, K. L. (2005). Katrina’s early landfall: Exclusionary politics behind the restoration of New Orleans. Z Magazine, 18(12), 26-31.