Montessori in Action Podcast

Engaging conversations with Montessori practitioners

Season 5, Ep. 4

Narrative & Movement Building with Lucy Recio

For more than 15 years, Lucy has worked at the intersection of communications, strategy, and organizing. She builds campaigns, programs, and systems in service to community led movements that advance justice and our collective liberation. Anchored by reciprocal, transformative relationships, her work endeavors to inform policy and legislation, enact systems change, shift power structures, and shape public understanding and perception around issues impacting young children, women, and BIPOC communities.

Lucy Recio

Lucy Recio is the Co-Founder and Independent Consultant at Third Bloom Consulting. She is also an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. Lucy served as the Director of Advocacy and as a Senior Advisor of Narrative and Movement Building at the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), and was an Adjunct Faculty member at Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy. She has been honored with the 2020 ASAE Power of A Summit Award, issued by ASAE (American Society of Association Executives).

Lucy works to inform education policy and shape public understanding and discourse around the need to transform our nation’s education system. She invites us to join her as Imagination Activists, to divest from inequality and through the conversation pulls us back to center.