Presenters and Workshops

The Equity Summit will include two sets of workshops centered around the themes of power, policy and pedagogy. Here we include the presenters and workshop titles.

Sergio Cuellar
The Campaign for Quality Education

Sammy Nunez
Healing the Hood: Changing the Odds

Dr. Kadhir Raja
Create Success: Unlocking Potential of Urban Youth

Sandy Holman
Race, Reading, and Power to the People

Dr. Rita Cameron-Wedding
Reducing Bias and Decision Making

Dr. Margarita Berta-Avila and Dr. Karie Mize
The Critical Pedagogy Framework: Discussing Arizona & Other Hop Topics Through One’s Curriculum

Stephanie Francis and Edith Crawford
Using extraORDINARY stories to Inspire and Empower Students

Amaya Noguera and SAYS Poet-Mentor Educators
Know Your Writes: Hip-Hop Literacy, Leadership, and Empowerment

Ashley Powers Clark
Images and Identities: Examining Educational Opportunities for Immigrant and Refugee Youth through Participatory Photography

Dr. Jann Murray Garcia and Dr. Vajra Watson
Education as a Matter of Life or Death: A Health Perspective on Schooling and Social Justice

Dr. Lisa William-White
Spoken Word Poetry as Radical “Literocratic” Research in the Acadmey

Cory Jones and Billy Aydlett
Equity Work at Jedediah Smith, a Superintendent’s Priority School in the Sacramento City Unified School District

Dr. Rita Cameron-Wedding
Reducing Bias and Decision Making

Dr. Viki Montera
Democratic Assessment as Advocacy