Meet Jyoti. Educational content and engagement consultant
I analyze and create media that are culturally responsive, respectful, and identity-affirming, especially for children and youth of color.
When aspects of our identities—like our physical appearance or cultural background—are seen as "different" or Other, it often leads to discrimination. Skin color is one of the most visible and long-standing markers that shapes how people are treated in many communities around the world (Dixon & Telles, 2017).
I invite educators, caregivers, and creators to stand together against practices that ignore, enable, perpetuate, protect, glorify, and exploit harmful beliefs that hurt our children and youth. By changing the way we teach, communicate, and create, we can make safe, healthy, respectful, and joyful learning environments in our homes, schools, and communities.
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Make art for literacy!
Access a free anti-bias, skin color-related activity for your class, art room, library, or home? Link below.
Ready to Think?
What words, ideas, concepts can help us communicate with children? New ‘Think Class’ coming soon.
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Help grow the anti-colorism community. Amplify my work and introduce me to co-conspirators.
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ABOUT JYOTI
Jyoti Gupta is a creative and educator whose interdisciplinary work spans early childhood education, media literacy, and community engagement. She is the creator of Different Differenter: An Activity Book about Skin Color, a widely utilized resource for fostering inclusive, identity-affirming learning environments. The book has been featured by Social Justice Books, Rethinking Schools, and McGraw-Hill’s Wonders curriculum. Her work has been recognized in independent and national media outlets including Bitch Media, RadioFree Brooklyn, The Washington Post, Yahoo!Life, Drew Barrymore IGTV, and The New York Times Wirecutter.
Jyoti is the founder of The Colo(u)rism Project and has served as a featured speaker at TEDxWomen and the Jaipur Literary Festival. She holds Master’s degrees in Media Studies (The New School) and Liberal Studies (CUNY Graduate Center), as well as a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Applied Art from Delhi College of Art. Her background in advertising and arts-based education informs her consulting practice with educators, caregivers, and creative professionals to advance culturally responsive and inclusive approaches to teaching and learning.
Dixon, A. R., & Telles, E. E. (2017). Skin color and colorism: Global research, concepts, and measurement. Annual Review of Sociology, 43(1), 405–424. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-soc-060116-053315
Love, B. L. (2019). We want to do more than survive: Abolitionist teaching and the pursuit of educational freedom. Beacon Press.