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Leading with Justice: Speaker Series
About Leading with Justice
The Doctorate in Educational Leadership is proud to announce the Leading with Justice lunch-and-learn webinar series. We are honored to feature award-winning scholars whose work on racial justice and community-based research has shape-shifted the ways we think about learning, teaching, and theories of social change. As we grapple with how to move systems towards inclusive practices, it’s imperative that we are well-informed. This series is for everyone and expands well beyond the academy. Who we are shapes how we lead. In this milieu, justice is not merely a destination; it is the embodiment of the journey.
Leading with Justice is a lunch-and-learn series.
Events are all 12–1 pm PST via Zoom. Register for each event below to receive the login link.
LeadingWithJustice — Check out the recorded videos and resource links below!
Leading with Justice: Afterword and Next Steps
Citation: Wenbourne Hendrick, B. and Watson, V. (2020). “Leading with Justice: Afterword and Next Steps.” Journal of Transformative Leadership & Policy Studies, 9(1).
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Partners
The Doctorate in Educational Leadership at Sacramento State presents the #LeadingWithJustice series in partnership with: SMUD, the Sacramento Kings, Fresno State Doctorate in Educational Leadership, and Sacramento State College of Education.
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Current Schedule
All events are 12-1 pm PST, via Zoom. Register to receive the link.
All events will include ASL Interpreters and Closed Captioning.
Oct. 6 [12-1 pm, PST]
Mike Hutchinson | Oakland School Board Member
A conversation with Dr. Frank Adamson, Assistant Professor in the EDD Program at Sacramento State University
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Oct. 13 [12-1 pm, PST]
Dr. Pedro Noguera | Dean, University of Southern California's Rossier School of Education
What Schools Can Be: The Role of Leadership in Creating the Schools We Need After the Pandemic
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Oct. 20 [12-1 pm, PST]
Dr. Daniel O’Connell | Executive Director, Central Valley Partnership &
Dr. Scott Peters | Department of Global Development, Cornell University
In The Struggle: Scholars and the Fight against Industrial Agribusiness in California
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Oct. 27 [12-1 pm, PST]
Dr. Leigh Patel | Professor, Educational Foundations, Organizations, and Policy, University of Pittsburgh School of Education
Study and Struggle
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Nov. 3
Dr. Jarvis Givens | Assistant Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education & Faculty Affiliate, Department of African & African American Studies, Harvard University
Before "Anti-Racist Teaching": Carter G. Woodson, Black Educators, and Resistance in American Schools
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Nov. 9 [12-1 pm, PST]
Dr. Kenjus Watson | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Health Equity Research Laboratory Program, Evaluation Director at San Francisco State University
Title of Talk TBD
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Nov. 10 [12-1 pm, PST]
Dr. Casey Wong | Postdoctoral Scholar, UCLA Department of Anthropology
Blowin Up Their F*ckin Prism and Entering the 36th Chamber of Education Research (Wynter Ruckus Remix)
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Nov. 17 [12-1 pm, PST]
Dr. Mark Warren | Professor, Department of Public Policy and Public Affairs, McCormack Graduate School, University of Massachusetts-Boston
Willful Defiance: The Movement to Dismantle the School-to-Prison Pipeline
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OCT 6 | Mike Hutchison
Activist to Organizer to Elected Official on Oakland's School Board
District 5 Director of the Oakland Unified School District Board of Education
Mike is proud that he was born, raised, and educated in Oakland, California. He spent more than 20 years working and volunteering in Oakland’s schools and with its youth. His mother was a teacher in Oakland and an active Oakland Education Association member for 40 years and his father was an instructor at Laney College for over 20 years. Hutchinson strongly believes that every child in Oakland has the right to a high-quality public education.
OCT 13 | Dr. Pedro Noguera
What Schools Can Be: The Role of Leadership in Creating the Schools We Need After the Pandemic
Dean of the University of Southern California's Rossier School of Education
Pedro Noguera is the Emery Stoops and Joyce King Stoops Dean of the Rossier School of Education and a Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Southern California. Prior to joining USC, Noguera served as a Distinguished Professor of Education at the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Before joining the faculty at UCLA, he served as a tenured professor and holder of endowed chairs at New York University, Harvard University and the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of 15 books. His most recent books are A Search for Common Ground: Conversations About the Toughest Questions in K-12 Education (Teachers College Press) with Rick Hess and City Schools and the American Dream: Still Pursuing the Dream (Teachers College Press) with Esa Syeed.
OCT 20 |Dr. Daniel O’Connell & Dr. Scott Peters
In The Struggle: Scholars and the Fight against Industrial Agribusiness in California
Executive Director, Central Valley Partnership (O'Connel) // Department of Global Development, Cornell University (Peters)
Daniel O’Connell is executive director of the Central Valley Partnership, a regional nonprofit organization and progressive network of labor unions, environmental organizations, and community groups spanning the San Joaquin Valley. Trained as a multidisciplinary ethnographer, he holds an MS in International Agricultural Development from University of California, Davis, and a PhD in Education from Cornell University. As a politically engaged scholar, his work is dedicated to achieving social, racial, environmental, and economic justice in California.
Scott Peters is a professor in the Department of Global Development at Cornell University and a historian of American higher education’s public purposes and work. He has spent the past twenty years as a leader in the civic engagement movement in American higher education, most recently serving as faculty co-director of Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life (IA). He is the lead author of Democracy and Higher Education: Traditions and Stories of Civic Engagement. He is also co-editor of the Cornell University Press book series, “Publicly Engaged Scholars: Identities, Purposes, and Practices."
OCT 27 | Dr. Leigh Patel
Study and Struggle
Professor of Educational Foundations, Organizations, and Policy at the University of Pittsburgh School of Education
Leigh Patel’s work is based in the fact that as long as oppression has existed so have freedom struggles. She is a transdisciplinary, community-based researcher as well as an eldercare provider, educator, writer, and cultural worker. Prior to being employed as a professor, she was middle school language arts teacher, a journalist, and a state-level policymaker. Professor Patel is also a proud national board member of Education for Liberation, a nonprofit that focuses on supporting low-income people, particularly youth of color, to understand and challenge the injustices their communities face.
NOV 3 | Dr. Jarvis Givens
Before "Anti-Racist Teaching": Carter G. Woodson, Black Educators, and Resistance in American Schools
Assistant Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a Faculty Affiliate in the Department of African & African American Studies at Harvard University
Jarvis R. Givens is an assistant professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a Faculty Affiliate in the department of African & African American Studies at Harvard University. He specializes in the history of education, African American history, and theories of race and power in education. His first book, Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching, was published in 2021 by Harvard University Press, and he is currently building The Black Teacher Archive, an online portal which will house digitized records documenting the more than one-hundred-year history of "Colored Teacher Associations." Professor Givens' research has been supported by fellowships and grants from the Ford Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, as well as the William F. Milton Fund. Professor Givens earned his PhD in African American Studies from the University of California, Berkeley. He is a native of Compton, California and currently resides in Roxbury, Massachusetts.
NOV 9 | Dr. Kenjus Watson
Title of Talk, TBD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Health Equity Research Laboratory Program, Evaluation Director at San Francisco State University
Dr. Kenjus Watson is the Program Evaluation Director of SF BUILD and is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Health and Equity Research Lab in the Biology Department at San Francisco State University.
His research concerns the biopsychosocial impact of everyday anti-blackness and colonization (racial microaggressions) on Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color, and the potential of abolition to bring about a re-Indigenization of Education. Kenjus also teaches courses on Educational Inequality, The History of Education, and Critical Race Theory in the Education Department and Black Studies Program at Occidental College.
NOV 10 | Dr. Casey Wong
Blowin Up Their F*ckin Prism and Entering the 36th Chamber of Education Research (Wynter Ruckus Remix)
Postdoctoral Scholar in the UCLA Department of Anthropology
Casey Philip Wong, PhD (he/him) is currently a Postdoctoral Scholar in the UCLA Department of Anthropology. Recently recognized with the 2021 UCLA Chancellor’s Award for Postdoctoral Research, Dr. Wong’s interdisciplinary research examines social justice in educational theory, policy, and practice. He elucidates this perspective within an article that he published in 2021 within the Review of Research in Education, “The Wretched of the Research: Disenchanting Man2-as-Educational Researcher and Entering the 36th Chamber of Education Research.” Dr. Wong was most recently an invited panelist for a Presidential Session at the American Educational Research Association on creating expansive and equitable learning environments (virtual), an invited presenter for a Presidential Session on Hip Hop Pedagogies at the American Association of Applied Linguistics (Chicago), and a speaker at the International James Baldwin Conference (Paris). He has worked with activists in Hip Hop Education to organize four Think Tank gatherings, as well as a Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy (CSP) conference that brought together leaders working for educational justice. Dr. Wong has been working inside and outside of schools to heal, cultivate critical thinking, and educate for collective freedom with K-16 youth and young adults, from Oakland to NYC, for over 15 years.
NOV 17 |Dr. Mark Warren
Willful Defiance: The Movement to Dismantle the School-to-Prison Pipeline
Professor, Department of Public Policy and Public Affairs, McCormack Graduate School, University of Massachusetts-Boston
Mark R. Warren is professor of public policy and public affairs at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He is a sociologist and community engaged scholar who studies and works with community, parent and youth organizing groups seeking to promote equity and justice in education, community development and American democratic life. Warren is the author of six books, most recently Willful Defiance: The Movement to Dismantle the School-to-Prison Pipeline (Oxford University Press, 2021). Warren has co-founded several networks promoting activist scholarship, community organizing and education justice, including the People’s Think Tank on Educational Justice, the Urban Research Based Action Network, and the Special Interest Group on Community and Youth Organizing in the American Educational Research Association. He has won a number of awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, and is a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association. He is married to Roberta Udoh, a Boston Public Schools teacher, and together they have raised two beautiful daughters.