Montessori in Action Podcast

Engaging conversations with Montessori practitioners

Season 5, Ep. 2

Black Montessori Education Fund- A Conversation with Executive Director, Meisha Perrin

Our conversation this month is with Meisha Perrin, the new Executive Director of the Black Montessori Education Fund, a non-profit project founded to increase access and support diversity and inclusion in Montessori education by investing in Black educators, children, administrators, and researchers in the US and globally. The Black Montessori Education Fund provides teacher training, child tuition, educational capital, and research scholarships for those interested in Montessori programs. The BMEF has just celebrated its fourth year and Meisha shares more about the mission as well as the future vision for the organization.

Meisha Perrin
Executive Director of the Black Montessori Education Fund

Meisha is an accomplished Montessori teacher and program leader who has worked in Montessori environments around the world in various capacities. Meisha graduated Magna Cum Laude from William Howard Taft University with a Master’s Degree in Education and a specialization in Montessori. She has an undergraduate degree in Journalism and International Relations, and worked for several years as a reporter and copy editor for the City of Miami, where she learned firsthand about the economic and educational disparity within the Black community that continues to widen the wealth gap in the US.

For more information about the Black Montessori Education Fund visit: https://www.blackmontessori.org