Araya Baker

Araya Baker is a counselor, suicidologist, and policy analyst. Baker has published commentary and public scholarship in The New York Times, The Washington Post's The Lily, Huffington Post, Education Post, Vice, Buzzfeed, The Mighty, The Tennessean, and other platforms. Araya earned a master's in professional counseling from the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education and a master's in human development and psychology from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Posts By Araya Baker

California

How We Can Transform Schools Into Sites of Racial Healing

Students across the nation have joined in solidarity to ignite a long overdue national conversation on gun reform and school safety. So far, they’ve successfully garnered widespread public support...

Poverty

JAY-Z Says We Need More Therapists in Our Schools and He's Absolutely Right

JAY-Z was the inaugural guest on CNN’s new weekly “The Van Jones Show.” During the 40-minute interview, JAY-Z appeared deeply introspective, and even courageously vulnerable, reflecting a...

Achievement Gap

What 'Moonlight' Tells Us About LGBTQ Black Boys and the School-to-Prison Pipeline

While the new film “Moonlight” tells the riveting coming-of-age story of a young queer Black man, it also serves as an artistic exposé about the oppressive school experiences of queer and non-gender...

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