A conversation with Crystal Hawkins highlighting her career and journey, facilitated by Canvas Rebel whose mission is to interview entrepreneur, artists, and creatives.

“The Importance of Inclusive and Diverse Literature for Young Children.” Jumpstart and the LA Central Library hosts a Read for the Record Panel to hold an important conversation on the essential role of diverse books in children’s early learning.

Assistant Professor, Maryssa Mitsch, talks with Crystal Hawkins, the Family Liaison Coordinator of the Shoestrings Children's Center in San Francisco Unified School District.

Shoestrings is an intensive assessment and intervention diagnostic program, Shoestrings is not an educational placement. Our program is designed to support students and families who continue to face barriers to school success particularly in settings which struggle to create and sustain supportive and nurturing school environments.

Shoestrings Children's Center is a program of the San Francisco Unified School District. All rights and intellectual property belong to SFUSD.

Crystal Hawkins spoke at the breaking barriers symposium in Sacramento CA about equity in education.

Breaking Barriers is a coalition of experts from across child and family-serving systems in California united in the pursuit of a more comprehensive, developmentally/ culturally appropriate, efficient, and accessible system for ensuring the educational, social, emotional and physical health needs of all California's children and their families are met.