Research has found that putting more culturally diverse courses in school, such as Indigenous language classes, can better prepare young people to learn how to interact in healthy ways with people who are different from themselves.
Dr. Mneesha Gellman is an associate professor of political science at Emerson College in Boston, and for most of her scholarly career she’s been interested in minority and indigenous rights. However, before embarking on a scholarly path that would take her to such far-flung locales as Turkey, Mexico