about me

Keziah Ridgeway is a Philadelphia area educator, activist, wife, and mother. She’s also a published writer with articles appearing in Sister's Magazine, Common Ground News, and Edweek. She has also made media appearances on CNN, CBS, and local Philadelphia news outlets and has appeared in USA Today and the New York Times.

She earned a bachelor’s degree in History, primarily with a focus on Southwest Asia, Africa & Central/South America (Temple University) and a master's in Secondary Education (Saint Joseph's University). Over the last 9 years she has taught World History,  African American History and Social & Cultural Anthropology at a public high school in Northeast Philadelphia.

 

As a curriculum developer and facilitator, she co-created an Antiracist training curriculum, helped develop Colored Conventions lessons for a partnership with the University of Delaware and partnered with the School District of Philadelphia to help revamp the history curriculum.

 

Keziah also created a mutual aid program called Groceries For Philly and was featured in the book, “How We Stay Free: Notes on a Black Uprising” in which students she helped mentor in the group Philly Black Students Alliance wrote about her contribution to their political development during the 2020 Uprisings. As the result of offering free, live virtual African American History classes that students joined from around the nation during Covid and other activities performed as an educator, Keziah won the prestigious Lindback Teacher Award for distinguished teachers in 2020.

 

She is also author of the children’s book, “Black Women Do: Leaders of the African Diaspora." 

 

Keziah also curates discussion groups, presentations and panels around Islamophobia, Black Muslim History, African American History, Educators of Color, and Racism that are aimed at creating a safe and equitable environment within education and society.