Talk Time With the OGs: Big Homies That Risked It All to Make Pursuits of Hard Truths More Possible in Research and Practice

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

This session is an open dialogue between some of the most influential scholars of our lifetimes that have dedicated their lives to truth telling. These paragons of racial and social justice will talk amongst themselves, to the benefit of the AERA community, about their learnings, their regrets, and their dreams. No Presidential session in the history of AERA has provided this kind of space for so many senior scholars of color with the expressed intent of truth telling. Given the conference theme, the state of our nation, and the present opportunity in our field, this session is on time and in the tradition of the “good trouble” that comes from truth telling in spaces such as AERA.

Sub Unit

• AERA Presidential Session

Chair

• Jeffrey M.R. Duncan-Andrade, San Francisco State University

Participants

• Antonia Darder, Loyola Marymount University

• Kris D. Gutiérrez, University of California - Berkeley

• Tyrone C. Howard, University of California - Los Angeles

• Gloria J. Ladson-Billings, University of Wisconsin - Madison

• Ernest D. Morrell, University of Notre Dame

• Na'ilah Suad Nasir, Spencer Foundation

• Pedro A. Noguera, University of Southern California

• Sonia Nieto, University of Massachusetts - Amherst