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From kindergarten through his first year at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Marqkye Pitts never had an educator with the same ethnic background as him.
“I often wonder how my experience might have been different with such a presence in the classroom,” he says. “My current motivation is to be that presence for the next generation of students.”
Pitts is currently an elementary education student at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities College of Education and Human Development (CEHD) and part of an initiative to get more Black male teachers in Minnesota classrooms, particularly in the elementary schools.