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Katrena Perou, Executive Director, Inspiring Minds Katrena Perou, the Executive Director of the Brooklyn based not-for-profit Inspiring Minds, was standing in front of 45 students from the Nelson Mandela School of Social Justice in Bedford-Stuyvesant. It was the orientation for the February 27th opening of this innovative culturally responsive community school model, which aims to…

NEW YORK CITY — These days the common thread among teens, even from different schools, is what they have suffered through during this pandemic and the process of remote learning. Katrena Perou is the executive director at Inspiring Minds, a nonprofit serving more than 300 at risk Black and Brown kids across New York City.…

NEW YORK CITY — The New York City Department of Education is concerned about a rash of recent suicides among students.  There have been five student suicides during the 2020-21 school year so far, according to the Department of Education. In the entire 2019-20 school year, there were four student suicides. At a recent town hall meeting,…