Gg2h-angela J. Perry

HIT THE SHARE BUTTON!! Brenea Fairchild is an educator, homeschool mom, and the founder of The Melanin Village. A lifelong learner and teacher, Brenaea is a career educator who worked in public schools and coached pre-service teachers prior to launching The Melanin Village. Brenea knew she wanted to homeschool after her culminating undergraduate research at Princeton University highlighted the inaccurate portrayal of slavery and the Civil War in U.S. History textbooks. This research, coupled with her experience in education and her admiration of her mentors who homeschooled, fueled much of her desire to teach her children at home. The mother of two boys, one of her greatest joys in homeschool is teaching world languages, and as a trilingual, Brenaea immerses her children in both Spanish and French. As Brenea became more involved in the homeschool community, she quickly realized the unique challenges that black families face when homeschooling-including finding like-minded community, access to accurate and q