Support our Student Teacher Intern Exchange Program in DC!
Please support Teach With Africa’s Student Teacher Intern Exchange Program by donating to offset the costs of two South African interns from LEAP Science and...
Marisa Harris
Apply for a 2012 Teacher Training Fellowship in South Africa
Teach With Africa (TWA) is recruiting highly qualified and motivated teachers to participate in our South Africa Teacher Training Fellowship program for the summer...
2011 Fellows Return from South Africa
TWA just wrapped up our summer Teaching Fellowship Program in South Africa. This marks our fourth consecutive year operating the fellowship program since our founding...
“I am drawn to Teach With Africa because the lens through which it sees the world—Nelson Mandela’s assertion that “education is the most powerful weapon of change”—is the lens through which I see my family’s evolution. I am no longer “the one who went to college.” For the generation who came after mine, college is not the exception, but the rule itself.”
Marisa has been teaching for eight years, with the majority of her teaching career spent instructing 9-12 grade English at Bronx Leadership Academy High School in New York. Prior to joining Bronx Academy, she spent one year teaching at Aeon-Amity English Schools in Kanagawa, Japan. Marisa holds a MS in Secondary English Education from Lehman College and a BA in English and American Literature from New York University. Her teaching philosophy employs literature as a means of interrogating the choices human beings make, challenging cultural norms, and envisioning alternative modes of thinking and behaving
You can contribute directly to Marisa’s work with Teach With Africa!
