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Someone go jump for me!!! I won’t be able to attend but looking forward to the next!

Grab your workout clothes, water bottle, and let's bounce.

Knwslf Art More Bounce Open Sessions are a Pay What You Can, community workout where we move and groove to Jersey Club Music, NOLA Bounce, Music, House, and more!

Saturday, April 11 at 11am - 12pm
Open to all ages. Jump ropes provided.
Pay what you can when you arrive (Cashapp, Venmo, Applepay).

Just come through, or send me your contact information here to let me know you joining: https://superphone.io/f/kLJoUNvxQ
Don't have a jump rope? No worries, we have some for you.

We're accepting applications for our 2026 Oak Futures Youth Employment Program! If you're between the ages of 14 and 24 and are looking for quality, paid job experience this summer, apply now at https://bit.ly/3Q5XWZU.

LohMaintenance will be there! 🫶🏾

CHIC Behavioral Health & Community Services Presents: The 2nd Annual Youth Development Conference
How to be… CHIC ✨

We’re excited to host our 2nd Annual Youth Development Conference for youth ages 12–18! This event is centered on helping young people build confidence, self-esteem, and resilience through meaningful conversations and interactive breakout sessions, along with an inspiring keynote speaker.

🍳🥪 Breakfast, lunch, and snacks provided
👥 All youth must attend with a chaperone
📅 Friday, May 22
🕤 Registration: 9:30 AM
🕙 Conference: 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM
📍 FFA Enrichment Center
1055 SW Prairie Trail Pkwy, Ankeny, IA 50023
💡 Interested in having your youth attend, sponsoring, donating, or volunteering for this event?

📧 Please contact: [email protected]

Together, we’re creating spaces where youth feel supported, empowered, and confident in who they are.

She didn’t just teach math… she changed how we see it.

Before ethnomathematics had a name,
Dr. Gloria Ford Gilmer was already proving that math lives in our culture, our hands, and our everyday lives.

Born in Baltimore in 1928, she became a trailblazer in a field that many didn’t even recognize yet—connecting mathematics to culture, identity, and real life.

She earned her degree from Morgan State University, followed by advanced studies at University of Pennsylvania, and later a PhD from Marquette University.
Along the way, she quietly made history—co-authoring peer-reviewed math research as a non-PhD Black woman, something almost unheard of at the time.

But her greatest contribution?

She made math make sense.

From classrooms to research labs, she showed that math wasn’t just numbers on a board—it was:

✨ The patterns in African hair braiding
✨ The symmetry in nature like honeycombs
✨ The structure in everyday life

She didn’t just teach equations…
She revealed the genius already in the culture.

As the first Black math instructor at Milwaukee Area Technical College and the first Black woman math professor at UW-Milwaukee, she opened doors in spaces where few had been allowed before. She even worked in ballistics at the U.S. Army’s Aberdeen Proving Ground—proving her brilliance across disciplines.

In 1985, she co-founded the International Study Group on Ethnomathematics, leading it for over a decade and helping shape a movement that still influences education today.

And her legacy?

It’s now preserved in the Library of Congress—as the first Black woman whose papers were archived in its Manuscript Division.

Because Dr. Gloria Ford Gilmer didn’t just study math…
She showed the world that math was already within us.

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