National SEED Project

"In 1987, Dr. Peggy McIntosh, author of the classic paper, “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack,” founded the National SEED Project to confirm her belief that teachers could be leaders of their own professional development. She and Emily Style, author of the 1988 article “Curriculum as Window and Mirror,” co-directed the project for its first 25 years. Dr. Brenda Flyswithhawks, whose consulting was a shaping force from the beginning, also served as a co-director ​for 15 years from 2002-2016. The scholarly activism of SEED, which has always been housed at the Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College, seeks to balance, in the words of Emily Style, “scholarship on the shelves” with “scholarship in the selves." Now in its fourth decade, SEED is currently ​led by Co-directors Emmy Howe, Gail Cruise-Roberson, and Jondou Chase Chen, with Associate Directors Motoko Maegawa and Ruth Mendoza."