This is the first profile of a Bigelow PTO volunteer for our weekly newsletter. We hope to profile someone new each week so you can see the people who help make our efforts a success.

Jeanne Choe-Arrieta, Ph.D. Bigelow has a chapter of Newton’s Families Organizing for Racial Justice (FORJ). The group invites parents and children to engage in critical conversations that support questioning, interrogating, and dismantling of white supremacy, including anti-Blackness and all forms of racial injustice. One of the co-leaders, Jeanne Choe-Arrieta, is a psychologist and parent of an eighth grader at Bigelow; she also has a ninth grader at NNHS. She got involved with FORJ around 2017 when she was a parent at Ward Elementary School. She is Korean-American raising bi-racial kids. She also serves as the Newton parent liaison with METCO families. A big part of what they do with FORJ is community-building. They did an event in Franklin Park in October. Without the time and effort of busy professionals like Jeanne, the Bigelow PTO would not be able to accomplish all we do. Thank you, Jeanne!