Safire DeJong
Collaborative for Educational Services Social Justice and Equity Specialist
Northampton, MA
Keri “Safire” DeJong, Ed.D. is a researcher, educator, organizer, and consultant focusing on social justice education, racial justice work, intergroup dialogue, technology in education, and critical digital citizenship for all ages. Safire holds a doctorate in Social Justice Education from UMass Amherst where her research focused on the legacies of colonialism within constructions of childhood. Currently, Safire teaches social justice focused courses at UMass Amherst and works as a Pedagogical Technologist at the Collaborative for Education Services where she organizes the regional Transforming Education for Social Justice Conference in Western Massachusetts. Safire, with an array of talented and brilliant co-facilitators, has provided social justice trainings and facilitated deeply transformational group work for various student affairs departments. She has also served as a facilitator, consultant and trainer for the UMass Amherst and 5-College Intergroup Dialogue Programs as well as for several other colleges and universities across the nation.