Lamar Shambley (he/him) is a Brooklyn-based educator with eight years of experience in teaching middle school math and high school Spanish. He was inspired by his former students to launch Teens of Color Abroad (TOCA), a nonprofit organization that provides high school students of color with global language learning opportunities. In under two years, TOCA has sponsored new U.S. passports for 20 high school students, served over 400 students through in-person and virtual programming, and awarded more than $20,000 in scholarships to teens of color across the U.S. He received his Bachelor’s of Arts in Modern Languages and Literature from the College of William & Mary and his Master’s of Arts in Teaching from the Relay Graduate School of Education.
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Widening Circles: Re-imagining 'Education Abroad' for a Post-Pandemic World