A More Perfect Union
Mentoring is a brain to pick, an ear to listen, and a push in the right direction.
John C. Crosby
MENTORS
Sarah Slamen is a reproductive rights activist and political consultant from Missouri City, TX. Raised in the southwest suburb of Fort Bend County, she discovered her love for policy and public speaking as a Lincoln-Douglas debater and Constitutional Law competitor at Elkins High School. After graduating with a degree in Political Science from the University of Houston in 2008, Slamen has worked on local, statewide and presidential campaigns. Some of her most recent campaigns include the 2015 election of Louisiana's Governor John Bel Edwards and 2016's presidential primary campaign for Senator Bernie Sanders. During Texas' 83rd legislative session, Slamen gained national media attention for her activism within the coalition that fought Texas' 2013 omnibus anti-abortion bill. Aside from campaign work, she's appeared as a political contributor to HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, MSNBC's The Last Word With Lawrence O'Donnell, The Reid Report, and The Ed Schultz Show. Slamen currently works as Policy Director for the Texas Young Democrats and political director to Ft. Bend County Commissioner Richard Morrison.
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Slamen has provided a wealth of experience from first hand interactions on the nature of voters and how that affects governance. She has underscored the importance of guiding research on the US government based off competing interests and partisanship and how they effect the structure of institutions. Further, she has directed Ali to a wide variety of scholarly sources from her own research she conducted as part of college. Slamen has also pushed to include research various contemporary issues and how they then reflect the original architecture of the Constitution.
Sarah Slamen
Jennifer Craddock began teaching World History at Clements in 1997, shortly after graduating from Penn State University with a Bachelor of Science in Secondary Education and a Minor in History. She was the Academic Decathlon coach at Clements for ten years, and proudly accompanied the team to State each of those years. Craddock recently took on the role of Social Studies Department Chair, and is honored to be part of a great team of Social Studies teachers at CHS.
In her free time she enjoys traveling and has led several student trips to Europe over the years. In 2002 she took part in a Rotary International Group Study Exchange in Karnataka, India. Craddock also enjoys reading, cooking and spending time with her husband David and their three dogs Boomerang, Peanut and Tuck.
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Craddock has focused on ensuring that the research is both consumable for others to read as well as focused in its intent. Further, she has provided a wide array of techniques and suggestions in building a Spring Action plan that will target Sophomore High School students. Being a Sophomore High School Teacher herself, Craddock's advice and insight has been invaluable in packaging the research for student consumption.
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Jennifer Craddock
