AppleTree Institute For Education Innovation & AppleTree Schools Recognize Everyday Heroes for Black History Month Share Article AppleTree Audience Interviews Marquita Davis, Deputy Director of Early Learning, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and "I AM FROM" Poem Collection with AppleTree Black History Month Honorees Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. Maya Angelou WASHINGTON (PRWEB) February 24, 2021 AppleTree Institute For Education Innovation and AppleTree Schools honor 37 people for their contributions to communities, families, and children. AppleTree Audience is a newsletter that started in 2019 and recognized the contributions and impact of stakeholders who increase diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in education. This year, the newsletter highlighted individuals who wrote poems about their ancestry and family, including Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley, Chief Corporate Responsibility Officer, PNC Bank, Richard K. Bynum; Vice President Nickelodeon Digital Consumer Insights Nickelodeon, Makeda Mays-Green, and many more. The publication can be viewed at this link: https://bit.ly/3py5QZh. “The interview and poem collection is a seamless tapestry of the beauty of Black people and their contributions to the world,” said Natasha Parrilla, director of communications and early learning initiatives, AppleTree. “We are all Black History as we contribute our lives in the service of others.”