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Liz Nigro (she/her)

@vitaebella.bsky.social
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Former DC teacher, recent UVA Grad, and current Research Director; Passionate about school integration (esp in early ed) & critical participatory action research

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Liz Nigro (she/her) @vitaebella.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
🚨calling all Virginia residents 🚨 There are multiple bills impacting school funding and youth mental health services up this session. Use this link to tell your representatives how much you value school funding and access to mental health care: www.votervoice.net/mobile/VAKID...
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Tell Virginia Legislators to Fund Our Schools and Invest in School-Based Youth Mental Health Access
Public schools are the cornerstone of our communities and ultimately, our democracy, but Virginia has failed to make the necessary monetary investments to provide a high-quality education and accessib...
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Beth Schueler @bethschueler.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
New year, new paper out on the (mixed) impacts of districtwide turnaround in Lawrence, Mass. on postsecondary outcomes. A product of a collab w/ 2 lovely UVA EdPolicyWorks PhD students and MA DESE: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...
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Liz Nigro (she/her) @vitaebella.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
We are facing devastating threats to food and healthcare access following HR1 ⬇️ I presented at the GA to the Commission to End Hunger on potential harms to VA counties & the pressing need to invest/safeguard access to SNAP, Medicaid, & school meals (thru impacted community eligibility provisions)
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Beth Schueler @bethschueler.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
New paper now out in @aerj_journal w/ Liz Nigro & John Wang on 4 different models of state-led district turnaround in Mass., providing positive evidence for building in opportunities for local influence over decision-making. Grateful for reactions! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...
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Can States Sustain and Replicate School District Improvement? Evidence from Massachusetts on Multilevel Governance - Beth E. Schueler, Liz Nigro, John Wang, 2025
Limited scholarship has examined school districtwide turnaround reforms beyond the first few years of implementation or efforts to replicate successes in new co...
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Liz Nigro (she/her) @vitaebella.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
🔔 After some late evenings, excited to share this @voicesforvakids.bsky.social data tool mapping Medicaid and SNAP cuts by county in VA, as a result of H.R.1 🔔 vakids.org/posts/cuts-b...
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Cuts by County: Mapping the Impacts of H.R. 1 on SNAP and Medicaid in Virginia  | Voices for Virginia's Children
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Liz Nigro (she/her) @vitaebella.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Working on this YPAR project prepared me to be a better advocate for youth mental health in my new role. Check out the first of two papers from an awesome team jprm.scholasticahq.com/article/1370...
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Beth Schueler @bethschueler.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Glad to see this coverage citing research on Mass. district improvement efforts in collaboration with @vitaebella.bsky.social and John Wang, forthcoming in @aeraedresearch.bsky.social journal AERJ: edworkingpapers.com/ai23-882
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Can States Sustain and Replicate School District Improvement? Evidence from Massachusetts
Limited scholarship examines school districtwide turnaround reforms beyond the first few years of implementation or efforts to replicate successes in new contexts. We study Massachusetts, home to a st...
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peterpiazza1000.bsky.social @peterpiazza1000.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
This post is a follow-up from a piece published by @tcfdotorg.bsky.social where @vitaebella.bsky.social adds civic engagement to the 5 R's of real/holistic school integration. In each post, activism is reframed in light of our current & quite extraordinary challenges. Both are good reads!
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Liz Nigro (she/her) @vitaebella.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
So honored to be able to share a localized, participatory model of school integration at this time of backlash! While it’s important to work on all fronts, organizing efforts throughout the course of history and now are pivotal to shaping the course of history. Please read and share!
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peterpiazza1000.bsky.social @peterpiazza1000.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
If the courts can't save us, maybe we can save us. New SD Notebook post from @vitaebella.bsky.social looks at community-level organizing and activism as our best hope in the movement for contemporary school integration. sdnotebook.com/2025/06/12/h...
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How Local Community Coalitions Can Build Solidarity to Promote School Integration
The School Diversity Notebook is excited to offer a guest post from Dr. Liz Nigro (she/her)!  Liz is a former public elementary school teacher, who worked for four years as a general and speci…
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Liz Nigro (she/her) @vitaebella.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Wanted to share with my small but mighty BlueSky community that this past week, I officially became a doctor and had a new working paper out! edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1190
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/05/2025
they are literal segregationists apnews.com/article/scho...
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The Justice Department ended a decades-old school desegregation order. Others are expected to fall
The Justice Department is lifting a school desegregation order in Louisiana dating to the Civil Rights Movement, calling its continued existence a “historical wrong” and suggesting that others across ...
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Liz Nigro (she/her) @vitaebella.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
🚨 new commentary alert 🚨 please check out this piece on why we need substantive school integration now more than ever (I promise this is not all doom and gloom and worth the five-ten minute read)
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Why Substantively Integrated Schools Matter at This Moment in History
The United States today is far from united. The political polarization that’s dividing the electorate can manifest in many ways, but one area where it’s
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Liz Nigro (she/her) @vitaebella.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Big life update: I am thrilled to share that I have accepted the Research Director role at @voicesforvakids.bsky.social ! I am looking forward to joining this amazing team in the fight for economic, health, and education justice within the state of Virginia.
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Liz Nigro (she/her) @vitaebella.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
So honored to make it (for a second time!!) on The Integrated Schools Podcast! Appreciative to be regrounded in hope and a sense of beloved, intergenerational, and interracial community
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Finding Hope, Together
The Integrated Schools Podcast · Episode
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Liz Nigro (she/her) @vitaebella.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Excited to share that I passed my dissertation defense, “It’s Time to Act: Employing Critical Particiaptory Action Research to Create Substantively Integrated Schools.” I’m so appreciative of the village that brought me to this point and can’t wait to see what the next chapter has in store!
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Liz Nigro (she/her) @vitaebella.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Check out my latest publication, providing counter-narratives from historically marginalized families in a rural context, surrounding what they desire from early childhood education journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Liz Nigro (she/her) @vitaebella.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
So proud to have been a part of this Century Foundation report on creating intentionally diverse early childhood spaces through blending and braiding funding!! Please check it out
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Early Childhood Programs That Blend and Braid Funding to Achieve Diversity
This report is part of a research project in partnership with the Trust for Learning highlighting how early childhood programs can blend and braid funding
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