A Collection of Written Works By Alysha Conner
By Alysha Conner | LA Wave Newspaper LOS ANGELES — Charter school leaders are concerned about students’ future livelihoods in the post-pandemic world. On the one-year anniversary of COVID-19 becoming a national pandemic, a local coalition addressed student issues during…
By Alysha Conner | Los Angeles Wave Newspaper LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles school officials have acknowledged the community’s call to defund the school police department and are now discussing what reinvesting in students will look like. On Feb. 16, Los…
By Alysha Conner | Los Angeles Wave Newspaper LOS ANGELES — Bernadette Fernandez, the founder of Imagine Etiquette and Image Consulting, is providing students with practical coping tools as the pandemic persists. Imagine Etiquette consists of custom-designed programs that teach…
By Alysha Conner | Los Angeles Wave Newspaper LOS ANGELES — Superintendent Austin Beutner wants to use Los Angeles Unified School District campuses to administer coronavirus vaccines and help speed-up the safe reopening of schools. On Jan. 18, Beutner issued…
By Alysha Conner | Los Angeles Wave Newspaper INGLEWOOD —In the wake of a dual pandemic, police brutality and COVID-19, hitting home for Inglewood residents, the Los Angeles Rams have stepped up to drive and inspire hope. After news surfaced…
By Alysha Conner | LA Wave Newspapers LOS ANGELES — With the start of a new school year still more than a month away for most local students, many youngsters have mixed feelings about returning to classes for more reasons…
By Alysha Conner | LA Black Post | LA Watts Times African-American students in Los Angeles County are currently facing a dual-threat of inadequate educational opportunities and support. It has been proven that social and environmental factors have also placed…
By Alysha Conner Blended Designs, LLC is the leading Black-owned family business to provide school gear that produces positive images and messages for students in the African-American community. Casey and Harvey Kelley, Blended Designs CEOs, launched their 1954® initiative in 2017…
By Alysha Conner | Downtown Weekly LA Assistant professor at California State University Los Angeles (Cal State LA), Dr. Marla Parker, and lecturer at Cal State LA, Dr. Melvin Armstrong Jr., teamed up together to establish an after school program…
By Alysha Conner | Black Press USA Photo provided by Ashley Banks Ashley Banks recently published her first children’s book, I Love You Forever, On March 31st in hopes of providing insight on how to cope with cancer through a child’s…