Essays

• Peer Reviewed

• Public

Peer-Reviewed Essays

“Good Trouble Makers: Freedom School Servant Leaders as Change Makers,” co-authored chapter with Patricia Gonzalez in Freedom Schools’ Varied Contributions to Education for Liberation, Urban Education, 2023.

https://doi.org/10.1177/00420859231175661

“Repatriation of Language, Culture, and Community” with Amy Shimshon-Santo, Mamle Kabu, Sabata-mpho Mokae, Nii Ayikwei Parkes, Michaela Paulette Shirley, and Ana Rita Santiago in the Journal of Writers Project Ghana, Vol 1, No 1, 2022, pp. 66 – 76.

“How to Become Erasure Proof,” GeoHumanities: Space, Place, and the Humanities, Fall 2021.

DOI 10.1080/2373566X.2021.1960179

“Using Podcasts to Enhance Student Learning Inside and Outside the Classroom” with Xela Batchelder, Thomas Karr, Brett Ashley Crawford, and Brenda Lee Johnson, ENCATC Scholar, 2021.

“’Do Our Lives Matter?’: Poetry, Music, and Freedom School,” special edition of Education, Citizenship, and Social Justice, Sage Publications, 2018.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1746197918793057

“Creative Justice: Arts Education for the City,”  Public: A Journal for Imagining America, 2017.

“Connecting the Dots” in VIVA! Community Arts & Popular Education in the Americas, New York: SUNY Press.

“Uniendo los puntos: Asociaciones en educación artística,” in VIVA! El Arte Comunitário y la Educación Popular en las Américas, Puerto Cabezas: Universidad de las Regiones Autónomas de la Costa Caribe Nicaragüense, 2010.

“Teaching Public Scholarship: Jacqueline Leavitt’s Living Legacy” in Critical Planning Journal, Vol 23, 2018.

“Arts Impact: Lessons From ArtsBridge,” Journal for Learning Through the Arts and Technology, 2010.

“Content in Context: Community Building Through Arts Education” Journal for Learning Through the Arts: A Research Journal on Arts Integration in Schools and Communities, 2007.

“Pursuing Quality Education Through the Arts: Lessons from Asia” Teaching Artist’s Journal, 2006.

“Home, Memory, and Beyond” Critical Planning, 2000.

Public Essays

“Safe,” Tikkun, November 2023.

“Objects Tell Stories: Rosenbaum’s Mizrah Across Six Generations” The Jewish Museum, 2023.

• Read Amy’s interview in The Forward about the article.

“A Look at Arts Education for the Next Generation of Culture Makers,” KCET, April 2020.

• Watch Arts Education. Amy served as Consulting Producer for this Emmy nominated ArtBound episode for PBS So Cal.

“Born in Los Angeles on Los Angeles Street,” and “Soundscape” for Besos y Versos: The Anthrophony of Manuela Garcia Project, ASAP/J and The Autry Museum, Fall 2020. Listen to the Soundscape and read the collaborative essays via ASAP/ J.

• Watch a short film with Amy, Nancy Sanchez and Las Colibri women’s mariachi co-presented by Metro Arts LA & the Autry Museum.

“Circle, Snakes, and un Cafecito Between Friends,” Entropy, 2019.

“My Grandma Was a Radical,” Tiferet Journal, 2017.

White Papers

“American innovation [electronic resource] : preserving and providing access to 80 years of industrial design history”

Co-authored by Amy Shimshon-Santo and Robert Dirig. Published by the National Endowment for the Humanities, 2014.

Blueprint for Creative Schools, Published by the CA Department of Education, 2015.

Amy co-chaired the Access and Equity Committee with Dr. Mary Stone Hanley for the CA Department of Education. They performed the research and drafted the Access and Equity section of the report. Amy also served on the six member team representing the State of California to the National Endowment for the Arts’ Education Leadership Institute that imagined and founded CREATE CA.