Union County Review

SUNDAY, MARCH 19, 2023 AT 9 PM – 3:30 AM 

"Refuge Denied: Exploring the Refugee Experience in the United States from the Holocaust to the Present"

FREE Educators' Conference

DATE: Sunday, March 19, 2023TIME: 9:00 AM-3:30pm

REGISTER HERE: https://docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLSefb4m0PcG3BL.../viewform

LOCATION: East Campus Graduate Student Lounge, Kean University

Kate English is the Executive Director of the Educators' Institute for Human Rights (EIHR). Kate taught for 18 years in Connecticut and Virginia public schools and has been recognized as District-wide Teacher of the Year, received the Joseph Zola Holocaust Educator, and serves as a Museum Teacher Fellow for the USHMM. Kate attended Summer University Srebrenica in 2011 and the Genocide Studies Institute at Keene State College in 2022, served as a Fulbright Teaching Excellence and Achievement (TEA) Fellow in Ukraine, as well as a Positive Peace Ambassador with the Institute for Economics and Peace.

Karen Hinkes Levine taught middle school social studies and was a lead teacher in Parsippany before retiring. She was selected as distinguished faculty for the district and is a two-time winner of the Honey and Maurice Axelrod award for excellence in Holocaust education. Karen was a Museum Teacher Fellow for the USHMM in 2006. Since that time she has been involved in a number of workshops for the USHMM and has also mentored new teacher fellows. Karen is on the board of the Council of Holocaust Educators.

Joe Nappi is in his 16th year of teaching Holocaust, Genocide and Modern Humanity and US History at Monmouth Regional High School. He is a recipient of the Ida and Jeff Margolis Award for excellence in Multicultural Education, a Jewish Foundation for the Righteous Alfred Lerner Fellow, and was named as a distinguished Educator by the US Navy. In 2019, Joe was selected as a USHMM Museum Teacher Fellow. His teaching materials on U.S. immigration policy and the Holocaust are featured as part of the PBS Learning Media - Ken Burns in the Classroom website.

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