In the spring of 2024, I created a pair of zines based upon my book Knowing Silence: How Immigrant Children Talk About Immigration Status in School. They’re based on the book’s Interludes: short chapters that highlight immigrant children’s experiences of coming into contact with police officers in their schools and neighborhoods. The zine titles are inspired by children’s own words and each one incorporates conversations, photographs, and artwork that express the way these elementary-aged children felt when they saw police. Both zines include questions to spark conversation among educators, students, community organizers, and neighbors who are thinking together about immigration and education, policing and surveillance. The zines are free to download and available in 5 languages: English, Spanish, Haitian Creole, Arabic, and Mandarin. Links to the zines can be found on this page, including: multilingual translations, videos of me reading the zines aloud, and instructions for downloading and assembling. Shout out to the NYC-based students and educators who contributed to this project!

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Download Knowing Silence zines 1 & 2 and Digital Files

Link to Knowing Silence zines 1 & 2 read aloud videos

Download Knowing Silence Distribution Instructions

In May and June 2025, I met weekly with a group of parents from Latin America who had recently migrated with their children to New York City. During our meetings the parents shared their migration stories, accounts of everyday life in New York City, and their desires for the future. I listened to them, connected them with community based organizations, and invited teachers and school leaders to learn from them. Along the way, we created a series of zines called “Cuentacuentos.” The parents used these zines to tell their migration stories in the hopes of sharing them with a wider audience and helping to foster empathy for migrants with similar experiences. I co-created the zine templates with Magaly Ayala Rivera and Lumari Sosa Garzón, co-researchers and co-authors in the Knowing Silence book project. The library of Cuentacuentos zines written by the migrant parents is available here in their original Spanish versions along with my English translations. The zines have been slightly edited during the process of transcription and translation in order to make the text accessible to a wider audience while still retaining the author's integrity.

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BiLingual Spanish and English zine library

Download zine template in Spanish and English

Link to Assembling zine (brooklyn Education Manual)