8:00-8:40 AM

Registration & Coffee
(Commons)

8:45-10:15 AM

PLENARY SESSION

Identity Stories from Germany and California:
Beginning Dialogue on Making Local and Global Connections

Participants will view a video made by the University of Tuebingen in Germany that addresses the struggles students and teachers are having in that European country around immigration, multiculturalism and multilingualism. The video will be followed by dialogue during which participants will make connections with their own local and international experiences of immigration, multiculturalism and multilingualism. They will also begin to develop action plans to challenge the inequities they perceive.

(Commons)

10:30 -
11:45 AM

Panel Discussion

Michael Sepidoza Campos, Lauren Quock, &
Lina Hoshino:

In God's House: Exploring race, religion and sexuality through videography

(Salazar 2020)

Presentations

1) Sarah Dove, Kristin Searby & Phyllis Rosenfield:

Cross Cultural Service Learning Project - Listening for a Change


(Salazar 2021)

Individual Presentations

1) Alana Jeydel:
Education Patterns in the Developing World - Patterns of Exclusion for Girls of Various Racial, Ethnic and Socio-Economic Groups

2) Mira Katz:
Is the Discourse of Difference in the United States one of Inequality? - Evidence and Implications

(Salazar 2022)

Individual Presentations

1) Deanna Alexich & Tara Kennedy:
The Invisibility of Sexual Minority Youth in Public Education

2) Fred Muskat:
Reflecting on Teacher Mentoring and the Upward Mobility of "Minority" Students

(Salazar 2025)

12:00
Noon

Lunch
(Commons)

12:25 PM

INVOCATION - Babatunde Lea
is educultural educator and an internationally-renowned jazz musician, who plays music from the African diapora.

(Commons)

12:30 - 1:45 PM

PLENARY SESSION

Voices from Mexico and the United States:
Equity, Immigration, and Bilingual Education - Towards Global Action Plans

Patricia Barba Avila
is a journalist and teacher who has worked for 25 years to achieve justice and true democracy in Mexico. She will address how human beings are used mercilessly by people with vested socio-economic and political interests, in Mexico and the United States. She will invite dialogue towards challenging inequities concerning Oaxaca, immigration, bilingual education, language and cultural policy and practice, in Mexico, the United States, and other parts of the world.
(Commons)

2:00-3:15 PM

Panel Discussion

Coral Neal &
Deborah Narang:

The Journey in Mathematics Program - Professional Development in Rural Alaska

(Salazar 2020)

Youth Dialogue on Violence

Octavia Subia, Cintia Guerra, Bianca Simpson, Julia Verham, Alfredo K.DeLabra, Ramy El-Diwany:

United States Participants from the Youth Dialogue Project

(Commons)

Individual Presentations

1) Roberta Ahlquist: Investigating Race and Whiteness in Finland

2) Amanda McBride:
Educating Nicaragua's Youth - Neoliberalism and Resistance

(Salazar 2022)

3:30-4:45 PM

PLENARY SESSION

Choosing to Resist in Times War:
Acts of Conscience from WWII to Occupation in Iraq
What does democracy look like in a country at war? What does it mean for citizens to put their lives on the line to uphold our constitution, civil rights, or human rights? Individual actions by people like Lt. Ehren Watada, the first officer who refused to deploy to Iraq, have had a ripple effect in the Asian and Pacific Islander community as well as in the broader peace movement. In this session, participants will learn about Lt. Watada's case and other historical precedents, from WWII to present US occupation in Iraq, and reflect on our responsibilities as students, educators, and informed citizens.

Ying Lee, Jeff Patterson, Mei Nakano, & Mike Tsukuhara
(Commons)

4:45-5:15 PM

FINAL SESSION

Contributing to Social Justice in Education: Action Plans
Stay and develop social justice action plans that you can take with you into your lives as students, student teachers, teachers/educators, parents, people working in diverse professions, and community members. We will post your plans to the Challenging Inequities discussion forum that will be available for us to share our plans, curricula, and ideas, and stay in contact with each other long after the conference is cover.
(Commons)

ON BEHALF OF THE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE, THANKS FOR COMING TO THE CHALLENGING INEQUITIES CONFERENCE AND SHARING YOU VALUABLE PLANS, CURRICULA, AND IDEAS WITH US!