Mosakowski Institute’s Letisha Amuwo participates in panel on forging meaningful change

Letisha Amuwo, department administrator and executive assistant in the Mosakowski Institute for Public Enterprise, recently participated in the Worcester Women’s History Project panel, “Conversations for Change,” held April 29 at the Worcester Public Library. Serving on the panel were Letisha Amuwo, administrative and executive assistant at the Mosakowski Institute for Public Enterprise, and Lydia Fortune, a retired multicultural services director at Clark; History Professor Melinda Marchand opened the event.

The panelists brought together community leaders to discuss how to forge meaningful change for community members, including women and people of color.

Amuwo shared that education has been a career, a passion, and a vocation, a way to learn as well as teach, and to help students, fellow educators, and school administrations find important truths that may be overlooked. Her own experiences shaped her mission, she said, recounting discussions of books set during the time of slavery that never address slavery, as well as superficial lessons on Columbus. These showed her that her presence in teaching mattered, she said. “I went into teaching. I wanted to make sure I was a face that looked like them.”