P.O. Box 9300
USM, Teacher Education Department
Portland , Maine
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Maine Black Educators Collective (MBEC) was founded in response of the critical needs of Black educators across Maine. Maine is one of the least racially diverse states , despite a five-fold increase of the Black population that is largely due to diasporic immigration . This has increased the number of non-White students to about 10 percent, whereas less than three percent of educators identify as non-White, meaning an even smaller percentage of educators identify as Black. This has largely allowed for Black educators in Maine to be ignored. Research tells us how important it is to support Black educators because Black students benefit from having Black educators, Black educators often implement culturally responsive teaching , and Black educators address racial social justice in the classroom . MBEC supports this critical population that is most likely to experience anti-Blackness, in the context of a shifting cultural landscape.

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