Re-remembering the Past and Envisioning the Future to Mobilize the Present: Community Organizers, Activist Scholars, and Funders Connecting Movements for Educational Justice

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

In the face of assaults on students, families, educators, scholars, and funders, we have an urgent need to connect and work towards aligning efforts to further mobilize educational justice. This involves redefining our narrative and strategy as we build powerful networks and ecosystems within and across stakeholder groups. The struggle for educational and racial justice is not new. We need to re-remember and learn from those past struggles while envisioning a new future of liberatory learning. This town hall session brings activist scholars, funders and community organizers working with students and families on the ground into a conversation that informs how we embody a new way of being with one another that reimagines, reconfigures, and repositions our collective possibilities.

Sub Unit

• AERA Presidential Session

Cosponsor

• SIG-Grassroots Community and Youth Organizing for Educational Justice

Chair

• Mark R. Warren, University of Massachusetts - Boston

Papers

• Spoken Word Artists (opening performance) - Patrice M. Hill, University of California - Davis; Denisha Coco Blossom, University of California - Davis

• Presentations 1 and 2 - Bettina L. Love, Teachers College, Columbia University; David O. Stovall, University of Illinois at Chicago

• Presentations 3, 4 and 5 - Patrice M. Hill, University of California - Davis; Letha Muhammad, Educational Justice Alliance; LuzMarina Serrano, Genders & Sexualities Alliance Network

• Presentations 6 and 7 - Michael Wotorson, Schott Foundation for Public Education; Gisele C. Shorter, Nellie Mae Education Foundation; Precious Waldron-Lopez, Schott Foundation for Public Education

Discussant

• Vajra M. Watson, University of Redlands