Beki Martin

Beki Martin, Executive Director of Facing History in the UK, is a passionate and committed leader, with over 18 years of experience managing education and youth-oriented charities. Prior to joining Facing History, Beki was the CEO of the Aldridge Foundation, an educational organisation which supports a network of 10 schools in underserved communities. She has also run her own management consultancy, and worked in business development and operations for two other youth-oriented charities, the Communication Trust and Youth At Risk. Beki holds a B.Ed Hons in Secondary Education.

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Philosophy After Auschwitz: The Responsibility to Bear Witness

Posted by Beki Martin on July 11, 2019



Dr Kurt Brandhorst and Dr Rachel Jones, philosophy lecturers at George Mason University in Virginia, recently taught an undergraduate course called “Philosophy After Auschwitz”. Through the course, they wanted to confront the issue of bearing witness to what happened in the Nazi concentration camps, the work camps, and the death camps - not just as a historical question but as an ongoing responsibility for us today.  Beki Martin, the Executive Director of Facing History in the UK interviewed them to find out more.

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Topics: Holocaust and Human Behavior, Experiential education, Travel

What Does it Mean to Stand Up for Democracy?

Posted by Beki Martin on May 9, 2019

"Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education." -Franklin D. Roosevelt

During April, Extinction Rebellion staged one of the biggest acts of peaceful civil disobedience that London has ever experienced. Over 1,000 arrests were made, with many of those arrested returning to the protest as soon as they were released. The group – who are said to cite the Suffragettes, Occupy and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as sources of inspiration – are striving to create a common sense of urgency around the world about climate change.

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Topics: United Kingdom, Democracy

Navigating Brexit with Facing History Teachers

Posted by Beki Martin on April 4, 2019

“Daddy - I don’t want to leave Europe, I love this house and I want to stay living here,” my six year old son, David, piped up whilst his Dad was watching the coverage of the vote on the Withdrawal Agreement. We reassured him that leaving the EU didn’t actually mean physically going anywhere. However, had some of my children’s classmates expressed this anxiety, those words would have had a whole different weight to them. Some of their parents, as citizens of other countries within the EU, are struggling with what a ‘no deal’ Brexit would mean for their families.

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Topics: United Kingdom, Democracy, Teachers

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