My name is Genevieve Mage, and I have been advocating for people’s rights since I was a teenager, and maybe even before. At 17, I was awarded a California State Resolution for amending the First Amendment. Advocating for the rights of student journalists following a censorship scandal at my charter school.

In college, I pursued literary journalism as one of my majors in undergrad in part to learn how to better connect with people and learn their stories. My other major was Religious Studies, for much the same reason.

I was inspired to get my master’s in teaching, centering on social justice, after realizing how little access children had to creative, engaging, and life-relevant education.

I started teaching high school in 2016. I have taught in SF’s Juvenile Detention Center, public high schools in SFUSD and BUSD.

Since I started teaching I have found myself pushing the boundaries of what education in a classroom needs to look like as I pursue a liberatory and engaged pedagogy.

This created relationships with my students where they felt they could come to me with their real-life struggles. Some of those struggles required me to use my journalism background to support them.

In the pursuit of justice and a safe learning environment for kids, I found myself at a crossroads where I could not effectively teach and advise students or adults at the same time. Thus, GLAUX was born.