With great excitement, the Stowe Center announces Dr. Bettina L. Love as our 2024 Stowe Prize for Literary Activism winner, acclaimed author of Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal ( St. Martin’s Press, 2023).

Dr. Bettina L. Love, the William F. Russell Professor at Teachers College, Columbia University, is a New York Times bestselling author of Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal. Recognized as one of the Kennedy Center’s Next 50 Leaders and honored with the Truth Award for Excellence in Education, Dr. Love co-founded the Abolitionist Teaching Network, which has distributed over $350,000 in grants, and played a key role in the “In Her Hands” program, supporting Black women in Georgia with over $13 million. A sought-after speaker and prolific writer, her work covers abolitionist teaching, anti-racism, and educational reparations, with her book We Want To Do More Than Survive.