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Andaiye Spencer is a 34 year-old teacher at Summers-Knoll school in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She teaches third and fourth grade. While on stage during the Detroit Moth storyslam, she had the audience in stitches as she described an afternoon leading her former first graders across the school in an army crawl towards the classroom. Her students sing Stevie Wonder to celebrate birthdays because the Birthday Song is too boring. She once spent an afternoon trying to light ice on fire with her students. Education is her art, as she works tirelessly to help her students learn how to think and solve problems--regardless of the labels we place on them.
She is also an actress, carpenter, world traveller, consummate couch surfer, yo yo maven, and karaoke afficionado. She is teaching herself Korean in her free time.
On March 30th, 2015 Andaiye was admitted to the University of Michigan hospital with unexplained liver damage and impending failure. Her condition rapidly deteriorated, she was immediately placed at the top of the liver transplant list. On Easter Sunday at 5 am the surgeon came down to tell her family that she had pulled through the first surgery and was now hopefully on the road to recovery from a liver transplant. Her liver failure is still unexplained, and biopsies from her failed liver have been sent to research hospitals around the country.
Andaiye is now dealing with the financial repercussions of two ambulance rides, three operations, three seperate E.R. visits, two weeks in the ICU, and 26 days in the hospital total. On top of dealing with the physical and emotional trauma an organ transplant, she is now saddled with on-going life-long financial worries. Her insurance only covers a percentage of the costs assoicated with the transplant, and she is personally liable for expensive co-pays for medication, rehabilitation, and doctor's visits.
Andaiye has given her life to helping her students solve problems that life throws their way. She helps her students see past the labels that are often bestowed on them without their consent, and she herself is a shining example of how to keep fighting no matter what the odds. As she says, "I'm not a quitter. I mean, I am a change direction-er, but I'm not a quitter."
Let's help Andaiye with this problem that life has thrown her way! Yup, it's a change in direction, but she'll carve a new path with the support of her friends, family and community.
If you would like to give directly to Andaiye and not through gofundme, you can send checks made out to Andaiye Spencer to:
19000 Wildemere
Detroit MI, 48221
She is also an actress, carpenter, world traveller, consummate couch surfer, yo yo maven, and karaoke afficionado. She is teaching herself Korean in her free time.
On March 30th, 2015 Andaiye was admitted to the University of Michigan hospital with unexplained liver damage and impending failure. Her condition rapidly deteriorated, she was immediately placed at the top of the liver transplant list. On Easter Sunday at 5 am the surgeon came down to tell her family that she had pulled through the first surgery and was now hopefully on the road to recovery from a liver transplant. Her liver failure is still unexplained, and biopsies from her failed liver have been sent to research hospitals around the country.
Andaiye is now dealing with the financial repercussions of two ambulance rides, three operations, three seperate E.R. visits, two weeks in the ICU, and 26 days in the hospital total. On top of dealing with the physical and emotional trauma an organ transplant, she is now saddled with on-going life-long financial worries. Her insurance only covers a percentage of the costs assoicated with the transplant, and she is personally liable for expensive co-pays for medication, rehabilitation, and doctor's visits.
Andaiye has given her life to helping her students solve problems that life throws their way. She helps her students see past the labels that are often bestowed on them without their consent, and she herself is a shining example of how to keep fighting no matter what the odds. As she says, "I'm not a quitter. I mean, I am a change direction-er, but I'm not a quitter."
Let's help Andaiye with this problem that life has thrown her way! Yup, it's a change in direction, but she'll carve a new path with the support of her friends, family and community.
If you would like to give directly to Andaiye and not through gofundme, you can send checks made out to Andaiye Spencer to:
19000 Wildemere
Detroit MI, 48221
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Andaiye Spencer
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Ypsilanti, MI