Alumna Kristen Buras Publishes "What We Stand to Lose"

Kristen Buras graduated from Loyola University New Orleans in 1993 with a BA in sociology and psychology. She has been an anti-racist activist, teacher, and researcher for over three decades and worked as an education professor at Emory University and Georgia State University in Atlanta. Buras writes on Black education, urban educational policy, racial justice, and African American history, culture, and experience. Her new book with Beacon Press is entitled What We Stand to Lose: Black Teachers, the Culture They Created, and the Closure of a New Orleans High School. Through archival research and oral history interviews with teachers and alumni, Buras provides a textured institutional history of New Orleans' G. W. Carver Senior High School from 1958-2005, revealing Black teachers' invaluable and often unrecognized contributions. She was born and raised in New Orleans and is the co-founder and director of Urban South Grassroots Research Collective, a coalition committed to community-based research, equity, and public education. Buras holds a doctorate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.