Join the Bigelow Middle School FORJ 2022-23 leadership committee to help strengthen Bigelow’s work around racial justice!

Bigelow Middle School FORJ is planning our activities for the 2022-23 school year and we are seeking parents and faculty who would like to join our leadership committee. If you would like to join the planning for this year’s work, please email us at bigelowforj@gmail.com. All are welcome whether or not you participated in FORJ last year. We meet once or twice a month on Zoom and we are planning our first meeting for later in September.

More about Bigelow FORJ and other ways to get involved:

Bigelow Middle School FORJ (Bigelow FORJ) is a school-based chapter of Newton’s Families Organizing for Racial Justice (FORJ). 

Bigelow FORJ is a group of devoted parents, faculty and administrators committed to raising anti-racist children who acknowledge the pervasiveness of systemic barriers; speak out against injustices; and seek action-oriented solutions.  We invite parents and children to engage in critical conversations that support questioning, challenging and dismantling systemic racism, structural inequities, including anti-Blackness, racial discrimination, unconscious biases and all other forms of racial injustice and social exclusion.

Please email us at bigelowforj@gmail.com and tell us if

• you would like to get our monthly announcements;
• you’d like to join our leadership committee;
• you have some ideas about how to promote antiracist work at Bigelow; and/or
• you’d like to participate in broader conversations on antiracism, diversity & inclusion.

Margo Michaels (one of Liam Opher-Michaels’ moms-8F); Jeanne Choe-Arrieta (mom to Augie-7D and Becca-6B)