Jemelleh Coes, PhD

​Jemelleh Coes, PhD, is a professor at University of Georgia and Mount Holyoke College. She teaches current and future educators along with future professionals dedicated to disability advocacy and social justice education. She also serves as a teacher mentor for classroom teachers throughout the state of Georgia. She is Georgia’s 2014 Teacher of the Year and a 2015 Lowell Milken Unsung Hero fellow. Jemelleh is the author of Becoming an Anti-Racist Educator: Interactive Workbook, a workbook that helps educators on their journey to becoming actively anti-racist. Her work has a laser focus on equity and disrupting traditional ways of engaging in education. Jemelleh is a co-designer and facilitator of ISKME's culturally responsive teaching workshops, and she engages directly with educators and leaders on the ground to support educators in critically interrogating and remixing OER to be more responsive and sustaining. She believes that equity is the thread that runs through everything! Jemelleh says, “In the sweater of life, if you remove the equity thread, you can guarantee indecent exposure.”