Obi Taswell, MSEd.

Highly engaged professional elementary school teacher with experience in private and public settings with a focus on social-emotional development and literacy, including authoring children’s books. Committed to decolonizing education and fostering an anti-racist, anti-bias classroom. Knowledgeable in play-based learning, creating curricula, and connecting children with the natural environment. Also experienced in developing and submitting grant proposals and running a licensed cottage food business. Pronouns in use: they/them.

The teacher is of course an artist, but being an artist does not mean that he or she can make the profile, can shape the students. What the educator does in teaching is to make it possible for the students to become themselves.”


Pablo Freire, We Make the Road By Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change, 1990