T. Elijah Hawkes, MSEd

T. Elijah Hawkes, MSEd, is the Director of School Leadership Programs at the Upper Valley Educators Institute (UVEI). He is an advisor to the Polarization and Extremism Research Lab at American University, a contributing editor with the University of Chicago Press “Schools: Studies in Education,” on the board of directors of the Vermont Humanities Council, and member of the Schools Committee of the American Psychoanalytic Association. Elijah also teaches in the St. Michael’s College Holistic Restorative Education Certificate Program.  Prior to joining UVEI, Elijah was a middle/high school principal for 16 years, including 10 ten years at Randolph Union Middle/High School in Vermont. He was founding principal of the James Baldwin School in New York City, one of the “successful public schools” serving “communities of color” in the city (The Nation, 2016). He has written for multiple publications, including Rethinking Schools and Learning for Justice.  He is the author of two books on school reform.