About Brittany L. Stratton

Brittany L. Stratton is the founder and steward of the Pedagogy of Humanity — a movement born from both lived experience and scholarship. She is a doctoral student, teacher, mother, daughter, and sister. Most importantly, she is a human being who has faced and survived trauma, and who now turns that survival into purpose.

Brittany’s childhood was marked by abuse, family violence, and the failures of the systems meant to protect her. By the age of eleven, she had experienced both foster care and the painful reality of being returned to unsafe environments. At seventeen, as a pregnant teenager, she left home and began forging a new path — one rooted in the search for safety and love.

Through these experiences, Brittany came to believe that safety is the highest form of love. This conviction, alongside her resilience and compassion, became the foundation of her life’s work. She has spent more than fifteen years nurturing her own healing while helping others find pathways to theirs.

Today, Brittany is building the Pedagogy of Humanity as both a philosophy and a practical framework. It begins with the recognition of each person’s humanity and insists that safety and dignity are not luxuries, but rights of birth. Through her writing, research, and teaching, she creates spaces where scars are not hidden but honored, and where education becomes an act of love.