Dr. Paul Walsh

Dr. Paul Walsh is a high school English and creative writing instructor at Liberty High School in Bethlehem, PA. He was a 2022-2023 Teach Plus Pennsylvania Policy Fellow where he worked to advance the mission of creating equitable educational policies in the state and co-authored a guide to implementing the Pennsylvania Culturally Relevant and Sustaining Competencies for teachers, administrators, and other district stakeholders. Paul's academic work focuses on studying the way that storytelling and personal narrative writing can strengthen the racial competency of White teachers and students in order to create more inclusive educational spaces. Paul’s newest book titled Building Racial Competency in White Educators through the Transformative Act of Writing: Writing through Whiteness will be published in December of 2023.