Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
Ginnie joins Chinook as a Giving Project (Spring 2016) alumnus and former grantee. Ginnie along with her brother Barry grew up in Denver as the children of military parents. Their mother, Jacquelyn Molock-Logan, retired from the Air Force, then started a small gift shop in the historic African American Five Points Neighborhood called Neat Stuff, where she led that business for 25 years making it one of the longest consecutive running Black businesses in the neighborhood. The central location and longevity of her mother’s store resulted in Ginnie growing up directly in the heart of a community of activists, religious and cultural leaders, and everyday folk straddling the range of divergent African American experiences. Ginnie thinks of herself as a product of a communal upbringing and believes deeply in the concept of Ubuntu – a concept in which one’s sense of self is shaped by their relationships with other people. It’s a way of living that begins with the premise that “I am” only because “we are.” Therefore, Ginnie enters her work and walks in the world as the daughter of her mother, the sister to her brother, and the product of and steward to her community.
Professionally, Ginnie identifies as an educator-practitioner with 14 years of instructional leadership experience at the primary, secondary, organizational, and systems levels. She has served in a variety of positions including high school teacher, school assistant middle school principal, university professor, program designer, academic theorist, and non-profit founder. Her formal academic training is as a Learning Scientist who uses critical race, womanists, and Marxist theories to inform her praxis. She believes that education is a tool for liberation if used to directly mitigate and ultimately eradicate oppressive systems that disproportionately harm BIPOC and Poor People. A core premise of her professional work is that education must include an immediate and direct impact (as opposed to deferred promise) when it comes to BIPOC and Poor People. Some of her work is captured in her recently edited volume Black Girl Civics, the non-profit organization she founded in 2014 called Big Hair, Bigger Dreams, and her current passion project The E/P Project.
When Ginnie is not doing educational or community work, she can be found traveling internationally, gardening in her backyard, camping in the Colorado mountains with her partner, and/or dining in Denver with her friends.