I’ll be at #AERA2026 in Los Angeles and would love to connect with colleagues, friends, and those who are thinking deeply about equality, power, and the future of K-12 and higher education.

This year, I have the privilege of serving as Discussant for an AERA Presidential Session:

Unforgetting in an Era of Erasure: Resisting Anti-Justice Attacks and Envisioning Futures for Higher Education Friday, April 10 11:45am–1:15pm PDT Los Angeles Convention Center, Level Two, Room 408A Chaired by Walter R. Allen

This session confronts the escalating anti-DEI and anti-justice assaults reshaping colleges and universities across the country. The panel brings together extraordinary scholars including Kimberly Jenkins, Veronica Adele Jones, Kaleb Briscoe Brown, Ph.D., Uma Jayakumar, Ph.D., Rican Vue, Royel Johnson, PhD, and Terrill O. Taylor, Ph.D..

Together, we move beyond diagnosis toward praxis, asking how we resist retrenchment while sustaining justice-centered futures.

I’m also presenting in a powerful symposium:

Disrupting the Language of Power: Translanguaging, Whiteness, and Educational Futures Thursday, April 9 2:15–3:45pm PDT Los Angeles Convention Center, Level Two, Room 301A Chaired by Dolores Delgado Bernal

In this session, I join Dr. Dee Sherwood and Jamie Stuck to examine the enduring legacies of Indigenous boarding schools and colonial education policy. The panel features important work by Maria Cioe-Pena, Nallely Gecik, Jennifer A. Chabriel-Amara, Cheryl E. Matias, and JPB Gerald on translanguaging, raciolinguistics, and resisting racialized language supremacy.

Please mark your calendars and attend these sessions.

If you are attending American Educational Research Association conference and thinking about education policy, civil rights, or justice-centered leadership, let’s connect. I would especially welcome conversations with scholars, doctoral students, and practitioners navigating this moment of political pressure and possibility.

Message me if you would like to meet up in Los Angeles. Looking forward to unforgetting, imagining, and building what comes next.

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