Young Voices on Reading, Writing, and Learning

Left to right: James Maciel-Andrews, Coral Ortiz, and Isaac Bloodworth

The Literacy Coalition of Greater New Haven collaborated with the New Haven Free Public Library on an April 25 forum that the Public Library hosted featuring “Young Voices on Reading, Writing, and Learning.” (Years earlier, the library had hosted a 2013 Literacy Forum that also included several young panelists, along with teachers.)

Moderator Luis Chavez-Brumell — new manager of the Public Library’s Wilson branch in the Hill neighborhood (as well as a panelist at an earlier Literacy Forum on “Language and Learning: Home, School, and Community”) — introduced three other young New Haveners as panelists:

Isaac Bloodworth, an artist who graduated from UConn and earlier from Cooperative Arts and Humanities H.S.;

James Maciel-Andrews, an ESUMS sophomore who has been involved in student government there after having been a student journalist with the East Rock Record in earlier years; and

Coral Ortiz, a Yale sophomore who, while a student at Hillhouse H.S., served on both the New Haven and Connecticut boards of education and gave a memorable valedictory address.