As a Center for Digital Thriving Fellow, Keshia is developing The Lit Society, an offline gathering space for teens to explore and construct their digital agency through close reading, discussion, and debate of literature, history, and art in the library.
PZ Work
As a fellow with the Center for Digital Thriving, Keshia is developing The Lit Society, an offline gathering space for teens to explore and construct their digital agency through close reading, discussion, and debate of literature, history, and art in the library. Inspired by the Black literary societies of the 1800s and using a Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) framework, teens become architects, building their understanding of an accelerating technological landscape through community and discourse. Together they will author an open-source toolkit for school and public libraries to facilitate their own Lit Societies.
Beyond PZ
Growing up, the neighborhood library was Keshia's safe place. Her parents, both immigrants, trusted the library as a space to create, wonder, and belong. The library opened Keshia's world to an understanding beyond herself and where she saw her community come together to learn. Now as a writer, educator, and middle and high school librarian at the John D. O'Bryant School of Mathematics and Science in Boston, Keshia’s career has been built entirely around creating spaces where young people can wonder, create, debate, and build agency together.