About AAERO
AAERO serves the African American community by providing spaces and resources for teaching and learning. Along with supporting diverse educational needs, we acknowledge that racial identity is a core component of Black educational experiences. We are learning and teaching about racism in-and-out of schools until race is irrelevant.
We preserve oral and written histories of African Americans through the Grand People Project. Ultimately, we strive to foster knowledge exchange, and solidarity-building within and beyond the African American community.
2019 AAERO Annual Conference – Our 20th Anniversary Celebration
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Kimberly Hall gave a presentation on parent involvement in schools. -
Billie Madison Hall gave a presentation about the Grand People Project, which she did with her grandmother and great grandmother. -
Dr. Ruby Long, gave a presentation on for-profit colleges -
Beulah Melchor Quick, Gail Wilson, and Paula Quick Hall
SNAPSHOT OF AAERO
AAERO CORE VALUES
- Education that fosters liberation and lifelong learning
- Listening to the voices of elders
- Mutually respectful cross-generational communication
- Tangible and intangible resource sharing
- Awareness of policies impacting racial equity
- Restorative relationships across the African Diaspora
AAERO GOALS
- Build relationships that bridge divisions among African Americans, specifically those based on social class, economic status, religion, sexual orientation, gender, ability and/or age.
- Create information systems and facilitate access of African Americans to equitable opportunities to learn, develop skills, and create new ways of being and doing.
- Enable reciprocal growth, learning and support of African Americans in pursuit of opportunities to realize optimal quality of life in equitable, just communities.
- Replace systems that unfairly allocate benefits and costs among African Americans with equitable means of access to opportunities.
AAERO PROVIDES
- Semester-long and summer internships and community service opportunities for college students
- Mentoring for postsecondary students throughout college and beyond
- Stories of African American elders, preserved through the Grand People Project and “Conversations with Treasures of Our Heritage”
- Support for intergenerational communication and learning that supports community engagement
- Suggestions and links to sources of information for self-directed learning