Think Out Loud

A week after George Floyd was killed by police in Minneapolis, protesters in Portland demonstrated for a fourth night in a row. Kali Thorne Ladd is the executive director and co-founder of KairosPDX, a public charter school focused on eliminating racial achievement and opportunity disparities. She says it’s vitally important to talk to children about the protests and what’s behind them. We ask her how she’s approaching these conversations at home with her own children and at KairosPDX.