This weekend on Equity Equals host Angela Austin has a conversation with Josh Dunn, Interim Director of Education for Culture Connect (www.cultureconnectinc.org) and a new resident of Michigan!

Josh Dunn was born in New York, but spent most of his life growing up in the northern suburbs of Atlanta, GA. He graduated from the University of Georgia summa cum laude with Bachelors of Arts in Linguistics and in Spanish, with a minor concentration in Arabic Studies. During college, Josh had the opportunity to practice his linguistic abilities by traveling and working abroad in Peru, Argentina, Uruguay and Morocco.

Before joining Culture Connect, Josh participated in the Teach for America corps as a sixth-grade math and science teacher in the small border town of Mission, Texas. There he experienced for the first time how language can serve as both a bridge and a barrier between people of the same community, specifically within the English-based federal and state educational policies and the majority monolingual Spanish community of the Rio Grande Valley. In addition to a lifelong passion for language learning and diversity, Josh’s experiences give him perspective into the importance of language access rights in our ever-diversifying culture.