Author: Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig
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Sometimes inspiration arrives quietly. It does not announce itself with applause or headlines. It arrives in an unexpected moment when reflection meets memory and responsibility. Sometimes inspiration brings tears. Last week I traveled across Southern California and Nevada on a journey that at first seemed like a typical speaking trip. The path took me from…
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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…
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I had a profound experience at the Education Deans for Justice and Equity session at the 2026 AACTE conference in New Orleans. A friend and colleague whom I have respected for a long time stood up and offered a testimony about his struggle with a faculty and a university. He described how he had left…
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Most leadership does not happen in grand announcements or strategic retreats. It unfolds in ordinary moments that rarely feel historic while they are happening. It appears in how a supervisor responds to a mistake, how a teacher frames expectations on the first day of class, how a manager defines success in a performance review, and…
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At the very moment when many of America’s most powerful universities turned away from responsibility and values, historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) stepped forward, despite operating under conditions designed to limit their survival. During the early 1930s, Jewish intellectuals in Germany experienced rapid and devastating exclusion from academic life. After Adolf Hitler became chancellor…
Cloaking Inequity 
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