https://www.ameliasimoneherbert.com/about daily 0.75 2025-06-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6031ae7567a0aa2fe9c84b8c/dcbecd32-9d8d-440c-bdec-2d2fc159921b/Amelia+Simone+Herbert+headshot.jpeg bio Amelia standing at a microphone reciting poetry at an open mic event at Columbia University. Photo by Armand Gerstenberger https://www.ameliasimoneherbert.com/home daily 1.0 2025-02-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6031ae7567a0aa2fe9c84b8c/11e1fef0-0882-44cb-a2b9-218fe8ffa5bb/IMG_5808+%281%29.jpg Home Watercolor illustration of Amelia https://www.ameliasimoneherbert.com/writing daily 0.75 2025-06-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6031ae7567a0aa2fe9c84b8c/ff9da3d4-6cb9-4f5f-9187-56d6f74df818/CER+cover.jpeg Writing February 2023 cover of Comparative Education Review’s special issue on Black Lives Matter and Global Struggles for Racial Justice in Education. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6031ae7567a0aa2fe9c84b8c/1615063655060-LSSWDRTYOYZCPVITHEVQ/02.-Installation-view-of-The-Seated-I-2019.-1200x800.jpg Writing Installation view of Wangechi Mutu’s the seated i, (2019) on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Courtesy of the artist and Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels. Photo by Bruce Schwarz. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6031ae7567a0aa2fe9c84b8c/1633315525672-FRL9H78VJM55H00B73I9/IMG_2562.jpg Writing Four of Amelia’s poems appear in the Spring 2021 issue of A Gathering Together. AGT publishes works that simultaneously transcend and address the moment they speak from, works that will last beyond the creator’s last breath and still be relevant, and/or works that put the writer and reader in conversation with the intellectual thought of Ancestors of all kinds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6031ae7567a0aa2fe9c84b8c/1615063253005-BGXQIGUBID0GRNW9N4BK/Black+Lives+have+always+mattered.jpg Writing Black Lives Have Always Mattered https://www.ameliasimoneherbert.com/teaching daily 0.75 2025-03-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6031ae7567a0aa2fe9c84b8c/1613883765667-ZSE79V7DXF7CWLWNOPOU/Education+as+Practice+of+Freedom+Wkshp+_+Amelia.JPG Teaching Colorful sticky notes on a blue wall. Each sticky note has a different person’s response to the question “What is the purpose of education?” Taken at the “Education as the Practice of Freedom” workshop facilitated by Amelia in 2018 at Parkwood Tech Centre in Cape Town, South Africa, sponsored by BottomUp. https://www.ameliasimoneherbert.com/research daily 0.75 2022-09-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6031ae7567a0aa2fe9c84b8c/1615062173014-TXG01V06MB1OSBKUTE1T/Image+for+Research+Tab.jpg Research Students at the beach at the Sea Point Promenade in Cape Town in January 2018. Photo by Amelia.