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15th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EDUCATION AND JUSTICE
11-12 September 2025, Los Angeles, CA
DETAILED SCHEDULE
(updated 2 August 2025)
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THURSDAY, 11 SEPTEMBER 2025
8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
REGISTRATION OPENS
The Registration Table, Book Sale, Art-Making Table, and Snacks & Beverages Counter will all be in _?_. Coffee, tea, and refreshments will be served in the morning.
9:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.
Affiliated Event:
EDJE STEERING COMMITTEE MEETING
This is a closed meeting for members of the Steering Committee of Education Deans for Justice and Equity (EDJE) .
9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.
INFORMATION SESSION:
PUBLISHING YOUR CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
We are pleased to announce that this Conference will once again partner with Professing Education, the journal of the Society of Professors of Education, on a special issue that features papers based on several conference presentations. If you are a presenter and are interested in publishing your work, please join us to learn more about this opportunity! For some inspiration, check out the issues of Professing Education that featured papers from previous conferences.
9:45 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.
WELLNESS SESSION:
Gentle Chair Yoga
What better way to start the conference than with some gentle yoga?! No need to bring a yoga mat or workout clothes—we will use chairs to engage in some gentle stretching, mindful movements, and breathwork. Appropriate for beginners and individuals with limited mobility as well as advanced practitioners. You could even come and just sit and breathe while listening to soothing music. Led by Kevin Kumashiro (CYT).
10:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
BREAKOUT SESSIONS #1
1.1. (Symposium) Leading on the EDJE: How Schools of Education are Transforming toward Justice *
Session Moderator: Kathy Schultz
BASE Jump: Elevating Equity and Justice in a Small Teacher Education Program
Carrie Kondor and Gennie VanBeek, Linfield University
(10-12 minutes)
Disrupting the Default: Equity-Driven Curriculum Change in Teacher Preparation
Colleen Mulholland, University of Northern Iowa
(10-12 minutes)
EDJE in Practice: Leadership, Culture, and Resistance in Advancing Equity in Education
Yvette Latunde, University of La Verne; and Kimberly White-Smith, University of San Diego
(10-12 minutes)
Living on the EDJE: Implementing the EDJE Framework in PACMED’s Pacific Teacher Education Programs
Deborah K. Zuercher, Paul Tauiliili, Ivy Yeung, and Janelle Matsuura, University of Hawaiʻi-Mānoa
(10-12 minutes)
[title forthcoming]
Luchara Wallace, Western Michigan University
(10-12 minutes)
* This session, held jointly with the EDJE meeting, is open to all conference attendees
1.2. Panel on Looking Across Contexts and Nations
Session Moderator: K. ʻAlohilani HN Okamura
Negotiating School Exclusions: Discourse, Ideology, & Social Action in London’s Education Coalitions (United Kingdom)
Marika Krishnan, University of California-Los Angeles
(10-12 minutes)
Revising the Narrative: Centering Race in Nihonjinron (Japan)
Kako Koshino, Mejiro University
(10-12 minutes)
Shifting the Frame: Raciolinguistic Awareness and Language Orientations in Transnational Families (Mexico)
Vania Ledesma Espino, University of Texas-Austin
(10-12 minutes)
Study Abroad as a Pedagogical Intervention for Preservice Teachers: Confronting Race, Religion, and Power in Schooling and Society (U.S. and France)
Erica K. Dotson, Clayton State University
(10-12 minutes)
Case Study of a Cancelled NEH Grant Understanding Teachers’ Perceptions of ChatGPT in Relation to Cultural Identity (CA and HI)
K. ʻAlohilani HN Okamura, University of Hawaiʻi-Mānoa; Cristina Tomie Stephany, South Bay Consortium Teacher Induction Program; and Mike Karlin, California State University-Dominguez Hills
(10-12 minutes)
1.3. Roundtable (works in-progress) on Reimagining K-12 Schools
Session Moderator: TBA
Five Principles of Decolonization: A Proposed Rubric to Assess and Analyze Organizational Models
Deborah Randall, Lana‘i High and Elementary School
(10min presentation, with 10min feedback)
Framing School Securitization: A Mixed Methods Policy Analysis of the School Violence Prevention Program
Sidra Sheikh, Dartmouth College
(10min presentation, with 10min feedback)
Why is Their Desk Outside the Classroom?: Teacher Perceptions and Implicit Bias toward Black Students with EBD
Master Brown, Pennsylvania State University; Andrew Shelby, Rowan University and Camden County’s Community Planning & Advocacy Council; Cameron Smith, Partners for Kids and Families; and Macawi Thomas-EL, University of Pennsylvania
(10min presentation, with 10min feedback)
11:45 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.
THURSDAY LUNCH
All conference registrants are invited to the Thursday Lunch, provided by our generous host and sponsors! Vegan and gluten-free options will be available.
12:45 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
BREAKOUT SESSIONS #2
2.1. Roundtable (works in-progress) on Reimagining Universities *
Session Moderator: Isabel Nunez
Becoming Visible: Using Co-Constructed Tools of Criticality to Surface Collective Pedagogical Critical Consciousness
Sangeetha Carmona and Kim Megyesi-Brem, California State University-Fullerton
(10min presentation, with 10min feedback)
Elevating Intersectional Disability Studies at San Jose State University
Saili Kulkarni, San Jose State University; Sudha Krishnan, San Jose State University; and Lydia XZ Brown, Georgetown University
(10min presentation, with 10min feedback)
Understanding Parental Involvement and ASU Support Programs Role in Higher Education
Jazmin Gamboa, Arizona State University
(10min presentation, with 10min feedback)
The Possibility of Wuwei Leadership in this Moment: Hope as Intervention?
Isabel Nunez, Purdue University-Fort Wayne
(10min presentation, with 10min feedback)
* This session, held jointly with the EDJE meeting, is open to all conference attendees
2.2. Panel on Community-School-University Connections
Session Moderator: Roland Sintos Coloma
Building Community Capacity for Teacher Development and Collaboration at the School Level
Debra Russell, Chapman University; Heather Griggs, University of Redlands; and Matt Rauch, Morongo Unified School District
(10-12 minutes)
Reclaiming Education through Pedagogies of Refusal: Toward a Framework of Resistance and Solidarity-Building Across Temporalities
C.A. Langerud, Arizona State University
(10-12 minutes)
Sanitized Stories and Selective Memory: The War on Black History in Education—Our Intervention Begins with Truth
Martin P. Smith, Duke University
(10-12 minutes)
Building Collective Power and Counter-Narratives: Project MITTEN’s Multi-Sector Partnership and Advancing Racial Equity in Education
Roland Sintos Coloma, Wayne State University; Annette Christiansen, Michigan Education Association; KaRie Jorah, Wayne State University; Jeffrey Lisiecki, Wayne State University; and Tanesha Watkins, Project MITTEN
(20-22 minutes)
2.3. Panel on Beyond School Walls
Session Moderator: Brian Charest
Born to Run: Running, Restorative Practice, and Movement-Building Inside a Prison Yard
Brian Charest, University of Redlands
(10-12 minutes)
Navigating Contradictions and Localizing Ethnic Studies Within and Beyond Salinas High School Classrooms
Chrissy Hernandez, Sydney Westerterp, Alo Wilson, and Mark Gomez, California State University-Monterey Bay
(20-22 minutes)
Unbound Stories: Teaching and Learning on the Run
William Ayers, University of Illinois-Chicago (retired); Renaldo Hudson, Illinois Prison Project; Stanley Howard, Uptown People's Law Project; and Adam Bush, College Unbound
(20-22 minutes)
2:15 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
BREAKOUT SESSIONS #3
3.1. (For Deans Only) Deans of Color: Connecting the Dots Together *
Session Facilitators:
Luchara Wallace, Western Michigan University
Rachel Endo, University of Washington-Tacoma
Sharon Subreenduth, Georgia Southern University
* This session, held jointly with the EDJE meeting, is intended for deans only.
3.2. Panel on Innovations in Leadership Preparation Programs
Session Moderator: TBA
Naming the Doctorate as an Intervention: Preparing Equity-Focused Leaders in a Time of Systemic Backlash
Barbara A Henderson and Violet F Ballard, San Francisco State University
(10-12 minutes)
Doctoring Ourselves Whole: Fostering Healing-Centered Leadership through Collective Praxis
Ximena Ospina, Higher Education Consultant; and others TBA
(20-22 minutes)
I Am Because We Are: Building Self-Determination and Moving Coalitionally in Ed.D. Research and Mentorship
Priya Goel, Fatima Jaffer, Rahni Baughman, Charles Dickerson, and Yessica Vera Mendez, California State University-Dominguez Hills
(20-22 minutes)
3.3. Panel on Navigating the Political and Corporate Forces Undermining Education
Session Moderator: TBA
A Pedagogy of Resistance: Interrogating Project 47 through Rage and Critical Mentorship
Robin Brandehoff, University of Colorado-Denver
(10-12 minutes)
Mama Bears in the Belly of the Beast: Moms for Liberty Disinformation Campaigns in California
Huriya Jabbar, University of Southern California
(10-12 minutes)
Schooling for Silicon Valley: A Critical Examination of How and Why Education was Entrusted to the Tech Industry and Its Dire Consequences in Uncertain Times
Timothy Scott, Central Connecticut State University
(10-12 minutes)
Examining the Rollback of DEI in California Across Multiple Systems of Public Education: Policy and Pedagogical Implications on Faculty, Staff, and Students
Frances Contreras, University of California-Irvine; Theresa Montano, California State University-Northridge; and Sylvia Hurtado, University of California-Los Angeles
(10-12 minutes)
3.4. Roundtable (works in-progress) on Indigenous and Queer Lenses
Session Moderator: Catherine Wong
(Re)Conceptualizing Funds of Identity/Knowledge in PK-12 Spaces: Advancing Justice through Queer Ways of Knowing and Being
B Waid, California State University-Fullerton
(10min presentation, with 10min feedback)
Traversing Dissonance with Social Justice Practitioners: An Exploration of Indigenous and Queer Paradigms to Activate Well-Being in the Work
Paul David Terry, University of San Francisco
(10min presentation, with 10min feedback)
From ‘Ohana to Liberation: Weaving Indigenous Wisdom into Anti-Racism Work
Catherine Wong, Catherine Wong Consults and Institute for Recruitment of Teachers
(10min presentation, with 10min feedback)
3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
WELCOME RECEPTION
All conference registrants are invited to our Welcome Reception to mingle and network! Light refreshments will be provided by our fabulous host and sponsors!
4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
OPENING PLENARY
Naming the Moment and Our Intervention
Speaking Truth with a Trembling Voice: A Sacred Call to Justice and Liberation
Angela Valenzuela, University of Texas-Austin
TBA
School Times for End Times: A Brief History of U.S. Christian Nationalist Activism and Public Education
Kevin Kumashiro
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FRIDAY, 12 SEPTEMBER 2025
8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
REGISTRATION OPENS
The Registration Table, Book Sale, Art-Making Table, and Snacks & Beverages Counter will all be in _?_. Coffee, tea, and refreshments will be served in the morning.
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Affiliated Event:
EDJE MEETING
The Fall 2025 meeting of Education Deans for Justice and Equity (EDJE) is being held jointly with the Conference. All deans, associate/assistant deans, directors and chairs, diversity officers, and other leaders in schools and colleges of education, as well as those working collectively with or aspiring towards such roles, are invited to attend the EDJE Meeting.
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Affiliated Event:
CARE-ED MEETING
The Fall 2025 meeting of California Alliance of Researchers for Equity in Education (CARE-ED) is being held jointly with the Conference. All California scholars, educators, students, and advocates, as well as those working in solidarity with us, are invited to attend the CARE-ED Meeting.
11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
WELLNESS SESSION:
Sitting and Walking Meditation
For beginners and veterans alike, this introductory session will help to ground us in the midst of a jam-packed conference! We will learn and briefly practice one seated meditation (on chairs) and one indoor walking meditation that will be easy to continue practicing in our daily lives. No need to bring anything. Led by Kevin Kumashiro (CYT).
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
FRIDAY LUNCH
All conference registrants are invited to the Friday Lunch, provided by our generous host and sponsors! Vegan and gluten-free options will be available.
1:00 p.m. – 2:15 p.m.
BREAKOUT SESSIONS #4
4.1. Panel on Troubling Leadership in Higher Education *
Session Moderator: Sumi Hagiwara
Reflections of a Former Administrator: Culture and Power in Academic Administration
Loan Thi Dao, California State University-Los Angeles
(10-12 minutes)
Visible Yet Violated: A Phenomenology of Women of Color in Regressive Times
Yvette C. Latunde, University of La Verne; Kimberly A. White-Smith, University of San Diego; Cheryl E. Matias, University of San Diego; and Venus E. Evans-Winters, University of San Diego
(20-22 minutes)
Asian Women Leaders’ Cultural Asset-Based Leadership Practices
Rachel Endo, University of Washington-Tacoma; Candis Eckert, University of Washington-Seattle; Sumi Hagiwara, Montclair State University; Julie Kang, Seattle University; Soh Meacham, University of Northern Iowa; and Rupam Saran, City University of New York, Medgar Evers College
(20-22 minutes)
* This session, held jointly with the EDJE meeting, is open to all conference attendees
4.2. Panel on Frameworks for Transforming Schools and Universities
Session Moderator: TBA
Decolonizing Our Minds with Critical Media Literacy
Jeff Share, University of California-Los Angeles
(10-12 minutes)
Liberationships in Virtual Supervision
Kim McAloney, Oregon State University; and Jenesis Long, Augustana University
(10-12 minutes)
Pedagogies of Possibility: Supporting Undergraduates to Imagine and Build Futures of Their Own Making
Deborah Keisch, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
(10-12 minutes)
STEM for Some or STEM for ALL? A Professional Learning Model to Ensure STEM for ALL
Leena Bakshi McLean, STEM4Real
(10-12 minutes)
Critical Scholars as Change Agents: (Re)Engaging Du Bois, Washington, and Freire to Define Our Last Public Good
Efrain Brito, California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo; Xavier J. Monroe, National Science Foundation; and Anthony Muro Villa III, University of California-Riverside
(10-12 minutes)
4.3. Roundtable (works in-progress) on Anti-Oppressive Curriculum across the Ages and Disciplines
Session Moderator: TBA
A Mestiza Praxis: Understanding the Agentic Nature of a Mestiza Consciousness
Elena Marquez, Chapman University
(10min presentation, with 10min feedback)
Challenge as a Way of Knowing: Artificial Intelligence (AI), Autonomy, Agency, and Anomie
Mary C. Lang, Center for Leadership, Equity, and Research (CLEAR)
(10min presentation, with 10min feedback)
Critical Family Histories as Pedagogical Intervention in Precarious Times
Casey Tokita, Arizona State University
(10min presentation, with 10min feedback)
Reclaiming Erased Histories: Mathematical Counter-Storytelling and the Chinese Exclusion Act as Funds of Knowledge Work
Theodore Chao, California State University-Fullerton; and Lili Zhou, California State University-Los Angeles
(10min presentation, with 10min feedback)
2:30 p.m. – 3:45 a.m.
BREAKOUT SESSIONS #5
5.1. Panel on Educator and Scholar Collectives *
Session Moderator: Ruchi Rangnath
Pedagogy as Protest: Black Women Math Teachers Advancing Justice in the Math Classroom
Stephenie Tidwell, Montclair State University
(10-12 minutes)
Liberation Pedagogy, Dreams, and the Agency of Muslim Teachers: A Mixed Methods Study
Mayida Zaal, Montclair State University
(10-12 minutes)
California Alliance of Researchers for Equity in Education (CARE-ED): Sharing Our Journey through Coalition Building and Organizing
Ruchi Rangnath, University of San Francisco; and Margarita Berta-Avila, Sacramento State University
(10-12 minutes)
Educator Activists and Collective Scholarship for Social Justice
Therese Quinn, University of Illinois-Chicago; and William Ayers, University of Illinois-Chicago (retired)
(10-12 minutes)
* This session, held jointly with the EDJE meeting, is open to all conference attendees
5.2. Panel on Student Arts, Activism, Autoethnography
Session Moderator: Mikela Bjork
Amplifying Belonging: Latinx Youth, School Music, and Resistance through Ensemble
Johanna Gamboa-Kroesen, University of California-Los Angeles
(10-12 minutes)
Teaching for Belonging: Humanizing Early Literacy through Community Cultural Wealth
Dora Diaz and Ana Carrasco, University of Texas-Austin
(10-12 minutes)
What Does It Mean to Belong? Youth-Led Insights for Educational Justice
Marilee Coles-Ritchie, Westminster University; and Bailey Rivera-Wymes, Belonging in Utah
(10-12 minutes)
Auto-Ethnography as Resistance
Mikela Bjork, Nereida Montes, Jose Alvarez, Leticia Contreras, Iris Cordova, Andrea Zambrano, and Breann Lindsey, University of Redlands
(20-22 minutes)
5.3. Roundtable (works in-progress) on Teacher and Leader Preparation for Challenging Times
Session Moderator: Alison Dover
Becoming Justice: Developing and Sustaining a Just Vision in an Educational Leadership Preparation Program
Abdul-Rehman Mohammed Issa, Doron Zinger, Julie Juhn, and Antonia Issa-Lahera, California State University-Dominguez Hills
(10min presentation, with 10min feedback)
The Legacy of Proposition 227: Oral Histories Capturing Aspiring Bilingual Teachers’ Experiences of Language Identity Development
Olivia E. Obeso, California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo
(10min presentation, with 10min feedback)
Using Mixed Reality Simulations in Teacher Education: How Ethnic Studies Preservice Teachers View Their Capacity for Action within Institutional Barriers
Heather Macías, California State University-Long Beach
(10min presentation, with 10min feedback)
“It’s a Good Struggle”: Supporting Critical Professional Development, Teacher Agency and Activism in Hostile Times
Alison Dover, California State University-Fullerton
(10min presentation, with 10min feedback)
4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
POSTERS SESSION AND REFRESHMENTS
Grab some refreshments and speak with presenters of the amazing posters and exhibits on display!
Bakhtin’s Carnivalesque in the Classroom: A Qualitative Study of Power and Resistance in the High School Composition Classroom
Tracee Auville-Parks, University of Redlands
How Should Equity-Driven Educators Strategically Respond to the Executive Order, “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schools”?
John Pascarella, University of Southern California
Language as Resistance: Rewriting Narratives for Refugee and Immigrant Students in U.S. Public Schools
Ann J. DeChenne, North Marion School District
Lessons in Radical Protection: How Black Mothers School Their Daughters through National Crises
Monique Lane, Saint Mary’s College of California
Navigating Academic Challenges: The Role of Positive Educator Connections in the Success of Former Foster Youth
Miriam Martinez, University of Redlands
Uplifting Indigenous Language Justice in Urban Schools: A Case Study of Nimalaj Be’, a Maya Language Club
Emily Grijalva, Claremont Graduate University & Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD)
(other posters TBA)