JOVAN MILLER - International Athlete to Teacher

This week I chatted to the exuberant Jovan Miller. An international athlete with a thirst for knowledge, Jovan spent his twenties playing lacrosse in the MLL, studying for two Bachelor of Science degrees in the US and then an MA in the UK. After several successful years spent hustling on the pitch, Jovan went on to work as a coach, inspiring and motivating new athletes in the game which he spent the decade dedicated to. Jovi is now a teacher in the states, and also uses his social platforms to instigate discussions on sports politics, being a black athlete playing a notoriously white sport, and more recently providing history lessons to help people better understand the Black Lives Matter movement. (I can safely say I’ve learned more from one of Jovan’s online teaching videos than I did in the entirety of my history GCSE!) Jovan and I talk all things Lacrosse, studying while being an international athlete, moving abroad, the black lives matter movement and how the education system needs to allow future generations to think more critically in order to for them to better understand the world they live in. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.