Zócalo Public SquareThey Called Me ‘Coffee with Milk’ as a Kid – Zócalo Public Square https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org Ideas Journalism With a Head and a Heart Mon, 21 Oct 2024 07:01:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 They Called Me ‘Coffee with Milk’ as a Kid https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2015/11/19/they-called-me-coffee-with-milk-as-a-kid/personalities/in-the-green-room/ https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2015/11/19/they-called-me-coffee-with-milk-as-a-kid/personalities/in-the-green-room/#respond Thu, 19 Nov 2015 08:01:35 +0000 Zocalo https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/?p=67130 Maya Soetoro-Ng is the director of community outreach and global learning for the Matsunaga Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. For many years, she taught high school classes in social studies and English and undergraduate and graduate courses in multicultural education, social studies methods, and peace education. She is also the half-sister of President Barack Obama. Before participating in a discussion on what Hawaii can teach America about race, she talked about sharing the Nuyorican poets with her students, her pet peeve, and the hardest part of peace to practice.

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