Liz Nigro (she/her)
@vitaebella.bsky.social
Former DC teacher, recent UVA Grad, and current Research Director; Passionate about school integration (esp in early ed) & critical participatory action research
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If the courts can't save us, maybe we can save us.
New SD Notebook post from @vitaebella.bsky.social looks at community-level organizing and activism as our best hope in the movement for contemporary school integration.
sdnotebook.com/2025/06/12/h...
New SD Notebook post from @vitaebella.bsky.social looks at community-level organizing and activism as our best hope in the movement for contemporary school integration.
sdnotebook.com/2025/06/12/h...
How Local Community Coalitions Can Build Solidarity to Promote School Integration
The School Diversity Notebook is excited to offer a guest post from Dr. Liz Nigro (she/her)! Liz is a former public elementary school teacher, who worked for four years as a general and speci…
sdnotebook.com
So honored to be able to share a localized, participatory model of school integration at this time of backlash!
While it’s important to work on all fronts, organizing efforts throughout the course of history and now are pivotal to shaping the course of history. Please read and share!
While it’s important to work on all fronts, organizing efforts throughout the course of history and now are pivotal to shaping the course of history. Please read and share!
We are facing devastating threats to food and healthcare access following HR1 ⬇️
I presented at the GA to the Commission to End Hunger on potential harms to VA counties & the pressing need to invest/safeguard access to SNAP, Medicaid, & school meals (thru impacted community eligibility provisions)
I presented at the GA to the Commission to End Hunger on potential harms to VA counties & the pressing need to invest/safeguard access to SNAP, Medicaid, & school meals (thru impacted community eligibility provisions)
📍 Where will H.R.1’s SNAP & Medicaid cuts land in Virginia?
Our new county maps show the real impact on families—from loss of food access and health coverage to risks for rural hospitals. 📊 Explore the interactive maps here: vakids.org/h-r-1-cuts-m...
#VoicesForVAKids #SNAP #Medicaid #PolicyImpact
Our new county maps show the real impact on families—from loss of food access and health coverage to risks for rural hospitals. 📊 Explore the interactive maps here: vakids.org/h-r-1-cuts-m...
#VoicesForVAKids #SNAP #Medicaid #PolicyImpact
September 18, 2025 at 1:24 AM
We are facing devastating threats to food and healthcare access following HR1 ⬇️
I presented at the GA to the Commission to End Hunger on potential harms to VA counties & the pressing need to invest/safeguard access to SNAP, Medicaid, & school meals (thru impacted community eligibility provisions)
I presented at the GA to the Commission to End Hunger on potential harms to VA counties & the pressing need to invest/safeguard access to SNAP, Medicaid, & school meals (thru impacted community eligibility provisions)
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New paper now out in @aerj_journal w/ Liz Nigro & John Wang on 4 different models of state-led district turnaround in Mass., providing positive evidence for building in opportunities for local influence over decision-making. Grateful for reactions! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...
Can States Sustain and Replicate School District Improvement? Evidence from Massachusetts on Multilevel Governance - Beth E. Schueler, Liz Nigro, John Wang, 2025
Limited scholarship has examined school districtwide turnaround reforms beyond the first few years of implementation or efforts to replicate successes in new co...
journals.sagepub.com
September 17, 2025 at 11:08 PM
New paper now out in @aerj_journal w/ Liz Nigro & John Wang on 4 different models of state-led district turnaround in Mass., providing positive evidence for building in opportunities for local influence over decision-making. Grateful for reactions! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...
🔔 After some late evenings, excited to share this @voicesforvakids.bsky.social data tool mapping Medicaid and SNAP cuts by county in VA, as a result of H.R.1 🔔 vakids.org/posts/cuts-b...
Cuts by County: Mapping the Impacts of H.R. 1 on SNAP and Medicaid in Virginia | Voices for Virginia's Children
vakids.org
August 28, 2025 at 4:32 PM
🔔 After some late evenings, excited to share this @voicesforvakids.bsky.social data tool mapping Medicaid and SNAP cuts by county in VA, as a result of H.R.1 🔔 vakids.org/posts/cuts-b...
Working on this YPAR project prepared me to be a better advocate for youth mental health in my new role. Check out the first of two papers from an awesome team jprm.scholasticahq.com/article/1370...
August 27, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Working on this YPAR project prepared me to be a better advocate for youth mental health in my new role. Check out the first of two papers from an awesome team jprm.scholasticahq.com/article/1370...
Reposted by Liz Nigro (she/her)
Glad to see this coverage citing research on Mass. district improvement efforts in collaboration with @vitaebella.bsky.social and John Wang, forthcoming in @aeraedresearch.bsky.social journal AERJ: edworkingpapers.com/ai23-882
Can States Sustain and Replicate School District Improvement? Evidence from Massachusetts
Limited scholarship examines school districtwide turnaround reforms beyond the first few years of implementation or efforts to replicate successes in new contexts. We study Massachusetts, home to a st...
edworkingpapers.com
July 1, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Glad to see this coverage citing research on Mass. district improvement efforts in collaboration with @vitaebella.bsky.social and John Wang, forthcoming in @aeraedresearch.bsky.social journal AERJ: edworkingpapers.com/ai23-882
Reposted by Liz Nigro (she/her)
This post is a follow-up from a piece published by @tcfdotorg.bsky.social where @vitaebella.bsky.social adds civic engagement to the 5 R's of real/holistic school integration.
In each post, activism is reframed in light of our current & quite extraordinary challenges. Both are good reads!
In each post, activism is reframed in light of our current & quite extraordinary challenges. Both are good reads!
June 12, 2025 at 3:48 PM
This post is a follow-up from a piece published by @tcfdotorg.bsky.social where @vitaebella.bsky.social adds civic engagement to the 5 R's of real/holistic school integration.
In each post, activism is reframed in light of our current & quite extraordinary challenges. Both are good reads!
In each post, activism is reframed in light of our current & quite extraordinary challenges. Both are good reads!
So honored to be able to share a localized, participatory model of school integration at this time of backlash!
While it’s important to work on all fronts, organizing efforts throughout the course of history and now are pivotal to shaping the course of history. Please read and share!
While it’s important to work on all fronts, organizing efforts throughout the course of history and now are pivotal to shaping the course of history. Please read and share!
If the courts can't save us, maybe we can save us.
New SD Notebook post from @vitaebella.bsky.social looks at community-level organizing and activism as our best hope in the movement for contemporary school integration.
sdnotebook.com/2025/06/12/h...
New SD Notebook post from @vitaebella.bsky.social looks at community-level organizing and activism as our best hope in the movement for contemporary school integration.
sdnotebook.com/2025/06/12/h...
How Local Community Coalitions Can Build Solidarity to Promote School Integration
The School Diversity Notebook is excited to offer a guest post from Dr. Liz Nigro (she/her)! Liz is a former public elementary school teacher, who worked for four years as a general and speci…
sdnotebook.com
June 12, 2025 at 3:45 PM
So honored to be able to share a localized, participatory model of school integration at this time of backlash!
While it’s important to work on all fronts, organizing efforts throughout the course of history and now are pivotal to shaping the course of history. Please read and share!
While it’s important to work on all fronts, organizing efforts throughout the course of history and now are pivotal to shaping the course of history. Please read and share!
Reposted by Liz Nigro (she/her)
If the courts can't save us, maybe we can save us.
New SD Notebook post from @vitaebella.bsky.social looks at community-level organizing and activism as our best hope in the movement for contemporary school integration.
sdnotebook.com/2025/06/12/h...
New SD Notebook post from @vitaebella.bsky.social looks at community-level organizing and activism as our best hope in the movement for contemporary school integration.
sdnotebook.com/2025/06/12/h...
How Local Community Coalitions Can Build Solidarity to Promote School Integration
The School Diversity Notebook is excited to offer a guest post from Dr. Liz Nigro (she/her)! Liz is a former public elementary school teacher, who worked for four years as a general and speci…
sdnotebook.com
June 12, 2025 at 3:33 PM
If the courts can't save us, maybe we can save us.
New SD Notebook post from @vitaebella.bsky.social looks at community-level organizing and activism as our best hope in the movement for contemporary school integration.
sdnotebook.com/2025/06/12/h...
New SD Notebook post from @vitaebella.bsky.social looks at community-level organizing and activism as our best hope in the movement for contemporary school integration.
sdnotebook.com/2025/06/12/h...
Wanted to share with my small but mighty BlueSky community that this past week, I officially became a doctor and had a new working paper out! edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1190
May 22, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Wanted to share with my small but mighty BlueSky community that this past week, I officially became a doctor and had a new working paper out! edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1190
Reposted by Liz Nigro (she/her)
they are literal segregationists apnews.com/article/scho...
The Justice Department ended a decades-old school desegregation order. Others are expected to fall
The Justice Department is lifting a school desegregation order in Louisiana dating to the Civil Rights Movement, calling its continued existence a “historical wrong” and suggesting that others across ...
apnews.com
May 1, 2025 at 8:57 PM
they are literal segregationists apnews.com/article/scho...
🚨 new commentary alert 🚨 please check out this piece on why we need substantive school integration now more than ever (I promise this is not all doom and gloom and worth the five-ten minute read)
Why Substantively Integrated Schools Matter at This Moment in History
The United States today is far from united. The political polarization that’s dividing the electorate can manifest in many ways, but one area where it’s
tcf.org
April 30, 2025 at 5:03 PM
🚨 new commentary alert 🚨 please check out this piece on why we need substantive school integration now more than ever (I promise this is not all doom and gloom and worth the five-ten minute read)
Big life update: I am thrilled to share that I have accepted the Research Director role at @voicesforvakids.bsky.social ! I am looking forward to joining this amazing team in the fight for economic, health, and education justice within the state of Virginia.
April 16, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Big life update: I am thrilled to share that I have accepted the Research Director role at @voicesforvakids.bsky.social ! I am looking forward to joining this amazing team in the fight for economic, health, and education justice within the state of Virginia.
So honored to make it (for a second time!!) on The Integrated Schools Podcast! Appreciative to be regrounded in hope and a sense of beloved, intergenerational, and interracial community
Finding Hope, Together
The Integrated Schools Podcast · Episode
open.spotify.com
April 3, 2025 at 4:35 PM
So honored to make it (for a second time!!) on The Integrated Schools Podcast! Appreciative to be regrounded in hope and a sense of beloved, intergenerational, and interracial community
Excited to share that I passed my dissertation defense, “It’s Time to Act: Employing Critical Particiaptory Action Research to Create Substantively Integrated Schools.” I’m so appreciative of the village that brought me to this point and can’t wait to see what the next chapter has in store!
March 29, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Excited to share that I passed my dissertation defense, “It’s Time to Act: Employing Critical Particiaptory Action Research to Create Substantively Integrated Schools.” I’m so appreciative of the village that brought me to this point and can’t wait to see what the next chapter has in store!
Check out my latest publication, providing counter-narratives from historically marginalized families in a rural context, surrounding what they desire from early childhood education journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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November 20, 2024 at 4:43 PM
Check out my latest publication, providing counter-narratives from historically marginalized families in a rural context, surrounding what they desire from early childhood education journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
So proud to have been a part of this Century Foundation report on creating intentionally diverse early childhood spaces through blending and braiding funding!! Please check it out
Early Childhood Programs That Blend and Braid Funding to Achieve Diversity
This report is part of a research project in partnership with the Trust for Learning highlighting how early childhood programs can blend and braid funding
tcf.org
November 18, 2024 at 3:23 PM
So proud to have been a part of this Century Foundation report on creating intentionally diverse early childhood spaces through blending and braiding funding!! Please check it out