Freedom Dreaming, Education Research, and Grassroots Community Organizing: A Vice-Presidential Town Hall on Building Coalitions for the Future We Must Create

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

In this Vice Presidential Town Hall a group of activist scholars and community partners with a history of melding research and grassroots educational organizing as part of a larger project of movement building, aim to ignite and inform critical dialogue using our experiences linking urban educational research to grassroots organizing around equity and justice, with a "future-oriented historiography" as our framework. Drawing on Robin D. G. Kelley's book, Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination, and related literature, each will offer brief commentary on their collaborative efforts as a foundation for wider exchanges with Town Hall attendees·

Sub Unit

• Division B - Curriculum Studies

Cosponsor

• Division G - Social Context of Education

Chairs

• Joyce E. King, Georgia State University

• Kristen L. Buras, Georgia State University

Participants

• Brian A. Williams, Georgia State University

• Mikala Streeter, The LIFE School

• Khabral Muhammad, LIFE School, Atlanta

• Joyce E. King, Georgia State University

• Mark R. Warren, University of Massachusetts - Boston

• Zakiya Sankara-Jabar, Dignity in Schools Campaign

• Kristen L. Buras, Georgia State University

• Raynard Sanders, The New Orleans Imperative

• David O. Stovall, University of Illinois at Chicago

• Asif Wilson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Erica R. Davila, Lewis University

• Patrick Camangian, University of San Francisco

• Carolina Valdez, California State University - Fullerton