Kelli Sparrow

Graduate Assistant

Kelli Nicole Sparrow has been an activist/scholar in the Philadelphia Freedom Schools Movement since 1998. She is a big fan of maximizing student potential, so it almost goes without saying that being a Graduate Assistant for the Honors Program is a fantastic environment for her. Since finding out that her name literally means “victorious warrior queen,” Kelli has been waging war on her arch nemeses: ignorance, mediocrity and meanness. She is confident she will win!

Though she lives in Southwest Philadelphia now, Kelli has also called Newark and East Orange, New Jersey home. She is an alumna of Douglass College (the college for women at Rutgers University) and earned an MSW at Temple’s School of Social Administration. Presently Kelli is a doctoral student in the Urban Education Program at Temple. Her research interests include ways that people transform nontraditional spaces into learning spaces.

In her spare time, Kelli trounces opponents in Scrabble. Her best play to date is “capsizes” for 113 points.