Speaker Series
The 2025 Speaker Series featured an array of remarkable individuals whose work is making a profound impact on the world. These events were a unique chance to hear from leading experts, engage with groundbreaking ideas, and gain fresh perspectives on critical race, decolonial, and Black studies scholarship in education that can inform and transform our own work.
David Stovall
Professor in the departments of Black Studies and Criminology, Law & Justice University of Illinois at Chicago
Black Figure Futures Embracing the Possibilities of Abolition in the Here and Now
September 25, 2024
Emery Petchauer
Visiting Full Professor in the English Education Program Teachers College, Columbia University
Us Whole: A listening Session-w-liner notes
October 23, 2024
David Johns
Executive Director,National Black Justice Coalition
Teach ALL the babies addressing anti-black & anti LGBTQ+ Stigma to Ensure All Students Thrive
November 13, 2024
Bisa Butler
Artist, Bisa Butler Art
The Artist as an Educator
January 29, 2025
Nolan Cabrera
Professor of Educational Policy Studies and Practice, Center for the Study of Higher Education Arizona State University
Why Don’t We Notice the White Kids Sitting Together in the Student Union?
February 5, 2025
Chezare Warren
Associate Professor of Education Policy, Vanderbilt University
Playing In the Dark? Blackness, Humanity and Studies of Black Life in Education 2012-2022
March 12, 2025