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Educator.
Writer.
Activist.
ABOUT
Jeff Sapp
Jeff Sapp has been an educator, writer, and activist for the last 41 years. As Senior Curriculum Specialist/Writer for The Southern Poverty Law Center’s Teaching Tolerance program, Jeff has consulted on and written curriculum for Academy Award-winning documentaries and Emmy Award-winning films. He has been a frequent contributor to Teaching Tolerance Magazine, a semiannual magazine dedicated to highlighting the best in multicultural education. Jeff was an Associate Editor for Multicultural Perspectives, the official journal of The National Association of Multicultural Education (NAME) for twelve years. He has written extensively for Tolerance.org, the Webby Award-winning Best Activist Site on the Internet.
Jeff’s children’s book, Rhinos & Raspberries, won the Golden Lamp Award, the Association of Educational Publishers’ highest honor. His Teaching Tolerance Magazine feature article “How My School Taught Me I Was Poor” won an AEP Distinguished Achievement Award, one of the highest honors in the field of educational publishing. His 2017 co-authored book - Rethinking Sexism, Gender, and Sexuality - published by Rethinking Schools, was awarded a Stonewall Book Award from the American Library Association. The Stonewall Book Awards recognize works of exceptional merit relating to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender experience.
Respected as a national leader in curriculum-writing, Jeff has done consulting and writing for prestigious organizations like The Southern Poverty Law Center, Teaching Tolerance, The Simon Wiesenthal Center, the Museum of Tolerance, and The Civil Rights Memorial Center.
As a college professor,
he’s received various
awards highlighting his
excellence in teaching.
As an activist, he has
worked tirelessly for
equity and social justice
in educational settings.
Jeff is a Professor of Education in the College of Education at California State University Dominguez Hills where he has taught for the last fifteen years. A prolific writer and scholar, Jeff was awarded the 2016 Faculty Award for Excellence in Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity. He recently received his second career award for Teacher of the Year when his university awarded him the 2018 Lyle E. Gibson Distinguished Teacher Award. In 2020 Jeff, his husband Erwin “Sino” Donato, and their daughter were the recipients of The Generations Award, a social justice award from the National Institutes for Historically-Underserved Students. In 2021 West Virginia University at Parkersburg honored him with the Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters.
He lives in Long Beach, California with his husband Sino Donato and their 11-year-old daughter Helena. They live in a hundred-year old Craftsman house that they’re slowly restoring. In his free time Jeff likes to garden, go to antique stores with Sino, and have long, thoughtful talks with Helena about feminism.
