About Lena Potts

I am a passionate educator, writer, and equity advocate. Growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area, I was lucky enough to be surrounded by peers and adults from varying cultures and backgrounds. My life was filled with language, food, and tradition from different parts of the world. During college, I was exposed to class and privilege for what felt like the first time, and struggled to find my place in a privileged institution that I felt lucky to be a part of. Studying Cultural and Social Anthropology helped me to reconcile those experiences- the culturally diverse but economically static circumstances of urban poverty, with the privilege and possibility of liberal, progressive wealth. Now, as a K-12 educator, I work in service of low-income communities and communities of color.