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Sara Platanitis

Sarah Platanitis is an English and journalism teacher at Holyoke High School, an inner-city public school in Holyoke, Mass. After reviving the school's award-winning newspaper, The Herald, from a multiple year publishing hiatus, Platanitis was chosen as one of 35 journalism educators from across the United States to participate in the prestigious Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Platanitis served as an advisor for media literacy teaching strategies alongside Nancy Freeman, Missouri's journalism teacher of the year. Platanitis worked as a media literacy consultant for PBS and as a journalist and photographer before becoming a teacher. Platanitis holds a bachelor^Ys degree in English literature from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and a master^Ys degree in English literature from Western New England College. She has lived and worked abroad in Spain and Japan and is the owner of Anselblue Design Studio.