Power andPower Place Valuingand Cultural Place Wealth toWhere Advance is Equity Equity in Higherand Cultural Education Wealth in Higher Education? May 28–30, 2019

May 28–30, 2019

Equity and Cultural Wealth Institute Center for Equity and Cultural Wealth WELCOME

BHCC’s Center for Equity and Cultural Wealth (CECW) draws on the College’s nationally recognized work to design culturally inclusive learning environments that value the strengths of our diverse students, faculty, staff and local communities. CECW engages the campus in culturally relevant scholarship, practice and advocacy focused on achieving equitable outcomes for all students. Through a multifaceted and intersectional campus-wide conversation, the CECW explores the ways in which meaningful community partnerships, equity-minded practices and culturally grounded pedagogies can be enacted to foster the success of all students and members of the College community.

3 DAY 1 Understanding

Power and Place DAY 1 AGENDA Day 1 of the CECW Institute is focused on foundational concepts related to power and place and making connections between and among equity, cultural wealth and student 8:30 a.m. Breakfast | Gymnasium

success. Activities are designed to engage participants in critical discussion about 9–9:15 a.m. Welcome | Gymnasium whose cultural wealth is valued in higher education and the ways in which colleges have produced and reproduced inequities that impact student success. Carla Santamaria 2019 CECW Institute Co-Chair, Professor and Chairperson of Foreign Language Evans Erilus KEYNOTE SPEAKERS 2019 CECW Institute Co-Chair, Educational Case Manager, Shaun R. Harper, Ph.D. Boston Welcome Back Center Shaun R. Harper, Ph.D., is a nationally recognized scholar for his research on race, gender and other dimensions of equity in an array of organizational contexts, Poetry Reading including K-12 schools, colleges and universities, and corporations. Harper is currently Rhina Espaillat Provost Professor in the Rossier School of Education and the Marshall School of Poet, BHCC 2019–2020 Artist in Residence

Business at the University of Southern California (USC). He also is the Clifford and 9:15 –10:30 a.m. Introduction Betty Allen Chair in Urban Leadership, founder and executive director of the USC Pam Eddinger, Ph.D. Race and Equity Center, president-elect of the American Educational Research President, Bunker Hill Community College Association and a past president of the Association for the Study of Higher Education. Harper has published over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles and Keynote Speaker other academic publications, and Johns Hopkins University Press is publishing Shaun Harper, Ph.D. his 13th book, Race Matters in College. Harper spent a decade at the University 10:30 –10:45 a.m. Break of Pennsylvania faculty, where he was a tenured full professor and founding executive director of the Center for the Study of Race and Equity in Education. 10:45 a.m. –12 p.m. Concurrent Workshops

12–1:30 p.m. Lunch and Plenary Address | Gymnasium Introduction Terri Lyne Carrington Carla Santamaria and Evans Erilus Celebrating 40 years in music, three-time GRAMMY® winning drummer/ producer/composer Terri Lyne Carrington started her professional career in Plenary Speaker Massachusetts at 10 years old when she became the youngest person to receive Terri Lyne Carrington

a union card in Boston. After studying under a full scholarship at Berklee College 1:45 –3 p.m. Concurrent Workshops of Music, Carrington went on to a celebrated career in music, including a GRAMMY® nominated debut CD on Verve Forecast, “Life Story,” and GRAMMY® winning albums, 3 –4 p.m. Coffee and Dessert “The Mosaic Project” (2011) and “Money Jungle: Provocative in Blue” (2013). In 2003, Affinity Group Meetings (optional) Carrington received an honorary doctorate from Berklee College of Music and was appointed professor at the college in 2005, where she currently serves as founder and artistic director for the Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice. She also serves as artistic director for Berklee’s Summer Jazz Workshop, co-curator for BAMS Fest and co-artistic director of The Carr Center, Detroit, Michigan.

4 5 DAY 1 WORKSHOPS inequities in our communities? How can Dismantling a Colonial Narrative teaching and learning environments that to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Colonialism, Sovereignty research, data and scholarship be a tool in Land, Education and History; and value students’ cultures, voices, linguistic and Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS), an and Indigeneity for addressing inequities and highlighting diversity and agency. open-ended discussion method proven Exposing Its Deleterious Effects on Pam Ellis, Room E419 10:45 a.m.–12 p.m. the assets in communities? This interactive to develop students’ critical thinking Communities and People session will feature the case of an academic- Identifying and Understanding and communication skills and empower The case of Johnson v. McIntosh in 1823 Larry Spotted Crow Mann, Room E450 APIA Students and Higher community research partnership that wrestled Trends of Enrollment and teachers and students to practice critical incorporated the “doctrine of discovery” Education: Fighting Internal(ized) with key dilemmas in doing participatory This workshop will cover the topics in the Success Among Latino Students thinking and communication skills through into the United States Supreme Court’s and External Racism to evaluation. Over the last three years, titles, as illustrated in, The Mourning Road Transferring From BHCC to UMass discussions about visual art. American Indian Jurisprudence, setting the Boston Chinatown Neighborhood to Thanksgiving. This novel gives a candid into motion American Indian removal and Achieve Equity Boston, Particularly in STEM Fields Center has been collaborating with Tufts look at the effects of a colonial narrative isolation throughout the United States. Richard Chu, Room E419 Amanda Colligan and Fabian Torres-Ardilla, University (public health, civic life, urban in education, history and how they have 1:45–3 p.m. American Indian educational institutions and planning, and dance) to develop, pilot and Room G140 policies have reflected the legal, economic Asian/Pacific-Islander Americans (APIAs) played out to the disadvantage implement evaluation strategies to assess and policy priorities of the federal government. constitute the largest growing ethnic of Indigenous Peoples. Latinx enrollment has increased significantly Beyond Identity Politics: The the impact of the Pao Arts Center on the Despite shifts in educational policies and minority in Massachusetts and in the at both UMass Boston (UMB) and BHCC Unconscious Bias, a Workshop health and well-being of the community. practices, only 10 percent of American U.S. In the 1960s, the “Yellow Power” Exploring Equity and Cultural Wealth over the last decade. During this time, there In this session, members from this research Luis Paredes, Room D211 Indians attain bachelor’s degrees and movement led to the creation of “Asian has also been growth in Latinx student team will share lessons learned from their Liya Escalera and CECW Team Members, 17 percent attain associate degrees. In American Studies” as a field. Yet, half enrollment in STEM fields. With this We all have some biases, some based on experiences together and identify best Room E230 this workshop, we will explore the use of a century later, APIAs still experience significant increase, it is important identify fear of the unknown, or on traumatizing practices in participatory evaluation. This partnerships with colleges and universities discrimination and lack of representation This interactive workshop will explore two trends and understand patterns of student experiences, and others that are culturally will be an interactive session in which to establish programs that support the entry and support in higher education, whether bodies of scholarship in higher education, success in order to continue to support ingrained. Some of these biases are so participants will be able to engage and and success of their tribal citizens and to in terms of enrollment, curriculum, hiring equity-minded practice and community Latino students, particularly Latinx transfer subtle we do not know we have them. wrestle with real-world evaluation dilemmas. encourage study in areas where tribal priorities or institutional/extracurricular cultural wealth. Participants will engage students from BHCC to UMB. This session In this workshop, participants will learn populations may be underserved. support. This workshop explores the with research and collaborate to create a presents an opportunity to triangulate data techniques to debias their perceptions historical and ideological foundations Building Bridges to Cultural Equity shared definition for each term, reflect on on Latinx students throughout their transfer about the world around them and in the Creating HOPE: Building a for the creation of such inequities. in Higher Education the ways in which these concepts intersect, pathway, identify current strategies that process learn how to structure programs Campus Initiative Focused on Deb Moorehead, Room D219 and discuss how a framework rooted in support these pathways and discuss how we and trainings to advance the equity factor

BHCC Equity Working Group equity and cultural wealth can guide our can continue to ask questions and encourage in their respective places of work. This Persons of Color This interactive workshop facilitated workshop is designed to provide the Herman Perez-Sostre, Jr. and work as educators and support learning Latinx students in their pursuit Nuri Chandler-Smith, Evans Erilus and by Wampanoag Elder, Deborah Spears community with tools and competencies Agnes Simon, Room D211 environments where all students can thrive. of success in STEM fields. Carlos Maynard, Room G139 Moorehead, M.A., will focus on cultural This workshop is recommended for participants to first understand and then take action inequities in higher education. Participants In November 2017, BHCC President Pam During the 2018–2019 academic year, who are new to the work of CECW. Masculinities in Higher Education when witnessing acts of bias and prejudice. BHCC’s Equity Working Group (EWG) will be engaged in dialogue related to Eddinger and Provost Jim Canniff met power, cultural equity, Native American Duane de Four, Room E421 engaged in a process to collaborate with How Research Can Inform Collaborating to Measure the with a group of faculty and staff across the culture, hegemony, historic marginalization, College to discuss current efforts to support the Center for Equity and Cultural Wealth Equitable, Culturally Sustaining Using an intersectional lens, this session Impact of Equity-Minded and and Institutional Research to research cultural wealth, cultural capital, colonization males of color on campus and in the greater Curricula and Pedagogy: Two will explore the various manifestations of Culturally Sustaining Learning campus climate assessment tools, select techniques and cultural biases. maleness and masculinity in the academy Boston community, review literature and Studies Grounded in Critical Environments: How Will We a survey instrument, and design a process and consider their impact on scholarship high-impact practices, and brainstorm action Know When What We Are Doing for assessing the College’s campus climate Collaborating to Measure the Race Theory and practice. steps for expanding and deepening our work in 2019–2020. This workshop will provide Impact of Equity-Minded and Lori Catallozzi and Lyssa Palu-ay, Is Working? in this area. What came next were a series of an overview of the work of the EWG this Culturally Sustaining Learning Room G139 Race, Place and Space: CRiT CECW Assessment Fellows, Room G138 “think days” and events at which staff, faculty year, including an introduction to the Equity and administrators worked collaboratively Environments: What Do We Want Walking at the Community College Campus Climate Survey, which provides This workshop challenges participants to A team of BHCC Assessment Fellows to develop the HOPE Initiative. In this Students to Do, Learn and Value? consider critical questions regarding the Arlene Vallie, Gymnasium will engage participants in an assessment data on campus members’ perceptions of workshop, we will discuss the process of CECW Assessment Fellows, Room G138 ways in which higher education curricula activity using the CECW student learning their institution’s climate; perceptions of how Engage in strategic thinking and discussion establishing an equity-driven initiative on a and pedagogy reproduce racial and ethnic outcomes, rubrics and samples of their institution supports diversity and equity, In Fall 2018, a team of BHCC faculty of the institutional norms, policies and college campus that is focused on facilitating inequities. This workshop considers findings student work. By putting the assessment and experiences with discrimination and and staff CECW Assessment Fellows procedures that create structural inequities the success of people of color, and the HOPE from two empirical research studies that materials into practice through a norming harassment at their institution. Participants will came together to create student learning at our institutions. Participants will explore Initiative’s initial findings to date. From this we are grounded in a critical race theoretical and scoring exercise, participants will also participate in an activity where they will outcomes (SLO) and rubrics to assess the foundations of Critical Race Theory (CRT) hope to spark dialogue and action regarding framework. The first study examines how determine the degree to which students help to develop additional survey questions the impact of curricular and co-curricular and CRiT Walking to develop an approach future movement with the initiative. a Eurocentric curriculum and pedagogy achieved the CECW learning outcomes in that speak to the local BHCC context. equity-minded and culturally sustaining meant to deepen their understanding of the shape classroom experiences for students pilot courses this spring semester. Through learning environments designed through pathways and barriers to success that exist Gender: The Tough Instructor of color enrolled in a college of art and this process, feedback will be solicited Bridging Sectors: Co-creating collaboration with the CECW. This within academia, and that affects students, design. The second study investigates how from participants on their experiences Robin Chandler, Room G227 Evaluation Methods to Measure interactive workshop will introduce faculty and staff. the socially constructed belief systems of using the outcomes and rubrics in order to participants to the process they engaged in Gender inequality is emerging from Impact Through Community faculty teaching developmental English evaluate their strengths and improve any to develop outcomes and the assessment Thinking Through Art: The Isabella obscurity as a global challenge. This Engagement in two community colleges impact their shortcomings. Participants are encouraged rubric in alignment with both the CECW Stewart Gardner Museum and workshop will explore current challenges Carolyn Rubin and Cynthia Woo, pedagogical practice. A guided activity but not required to have attended the and the College’s Institutional Learning Visual Thinking Strategies to conventional traditions about manhood, Room D213 will enable participants to engage with the morning session. Outcomes (ILOs). We encourage and womanhood, and the dysfunctional core tenets of critical race theory. Inquiry- ISG Educational Team, Room G227 participants who select this session to and obsolete socialization on the meaning How do we create meaningful, reciprocal based discussion will explore actions higher attend the corresponding afternoon session. of gender. As we each jockey for status and sustainable partnerships to address education practitioners can take to build This workshop will introduce participants

6 7 DAY 2

DAY 1 WORKSHOPS (CONT.) and respect, a new vision of equality is potential to dismantle the dual language Power and Place unfolding in the form of social movements program at the Umana. This presentation through resistance, violence, righteous explores the historical, sociopolitical and indignation, online and offline protest, the geographical context of dual language retroactive criminalization of gender-based education in East Boston and examines the violence, law suits, diversity initiatives, implications of recent demographic and in Practice state and national policy shifts and resulting enrollment shifts in the neighborhood for in a chaos of identity and power. Gender the education of Latinx children and youth. Day 2 of the CECW Institute is focused on power and place in the community through experiential is the “tough instructor” of the 21st century and place-based teaching, learning and student development. Central to this exploration is a critical and we are all learning new ways to Thinking Inside the Box: dialogue about the stories that are and are not being told about our local communities. The opening treat one another from the perspective The Joys of Constraint address and field study activities are designed to enable participants to engage with Greater Boston of human rights and an ethic of caring. Rhina Espaillat, Room D213 neighborhoods and the organizations and institutions working to recognize and amplify community This workshop will synthesize current cultural wealth and/or disrupt inequities. data on gender inequality from a global In this workshop, participants will be perspective. Participants will be able to presented with a series of ideas relevant to compare, classify, investigate, synthesize the teaching of creative writing. They will and evaluate manifestations of both touch on the craft of poetry through exercises gender inequality and gender equality and sample poems that demonstrate the KEYNOTE SPEAKER at BHCC. All participants are expected to tools of the poet; introduce reasons to Peter Nien-chu Kiang, Ed.D. abide by confidentiality in this workshop. subvert the craft and ways to do it; Peter Nien-chu Kiang, Ed.D., is Professor and Director of the Asian American and suggest prompts to stimulate the Studies Program in the School for Global Inclusion and Social Development (SGISD) Gentrification and Dual Language imagination in novel ways that will help at the University of Massachusetts Boston where he has taught since 1987. Kiang’s in East Boston: Context and get the poet out of themselves. research, teaching and advocacy in both K-12 and higher education with Asian Implications The Value of Cultural Wealth in American immigrant/refugee students and communities have been supported by Ana Solano-Campos, Room G140 Higher Education: Who Has It? the National Academy of Education, the National Endowment for the Humanities, In 2014, the first and only dual language Who Wants It? How Can We Help the Massachusetts Teachers Association, the Massachusetts Association for Bilingual Education and others. Since 2010, he has been co-principal investigator and lead program in East Boston opened its doors Our AAPI Students Develop It? at the Mario Umana Academy with the goal proposal writer for three five-year grants totaling $5.25M from the U.S. Department Phitsamay Uy, Room D219 of serving the predominantly Latinx Spanish of Education for UMass Boston’s Asian American Native American Pacific Islander speaking families in the neighborhood. This workshop examines what equity Serving Institution (AANAPISI) program. Within the university, he has received both Around the same time, a wave of and cultural wealth looks like in higher the Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award and Distinguished Service Award. redevelopments started taking place that education. It uses Yosso’s (2005) cultural Nationally, he received the Distinguished Scholar Award from the American Educational led to rocketing rent prices, displacing wealth model to demonstrate who has Research Association’s Special Interest Group: Research on the Education of Asian immigrant low-income residents and cultural wealth and how it plays out in and Pacific Americans in 2013 and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National resulting in an influx of young professionals. higher education. The workshop will Association for Asian American Studies in 2014. Kiang served for six years as chair of Recent scholarship has characterized the present the Asian American and Pacific- emergence of dual language programs in Islander (AAPI) student population as a the Massachusetts Advisory Committee for the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and urban schools as a sign of gentrification. case study to examine how and when eight years as co-president of the Chinese Historical Society of New England. He In East Boston, however, gentrification has their cultural wealth is (de)valued. holds a B.A., Ed.M. and Ed.D. from Harvard University and is a former Community caused demographic shifts that have the Fellow in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT.

8 9 FIELD STUDIES

18th & 19th Century Women Creating Spaces of Power: The Museum of African American History Explores the Lives of Harriet Jacobs, Harriet Tubman and Phillis Wheatley

DAY 2 AGENDA A Taste of Roxbury: Experience the Cultures and Community Organizing in Roxbury Expressed Through Dialogue and Food 8:30 a.m. Breakfast | Gymnasium A Walk Through the Chelsea Community: Visiting and Learning 9–9:15 a.m. Welcome | Gymnasium about Community-based Responses to Gentrification BHCC AANAPISI Leadership Team

9:15 –10:30 a.m. Introduction Land, Memory and the Power of Place—Unravelling the Maria Puente, Ph.D. “Master” Narrative of Colonial New England in Deer Island AANAPISI Faculty Project Director and Professor of Behavioral Sciences Historic Chinatown Tours: Chinese Historical Society Tours of Chinatown and the Pao Arts Center Keynote Speaker Peter Nien-chu Kiang, Ed.D. Immigrant Bundle-Making Workshop: Leavings and 11:15 a.m. –3 p.m. Concurrent Field Studies Belongings—Chinatown

1 p.m. Lunch | On-site

Explore Afro-Latinx Youth Experiences in Boston’s Hyde Square Neighborhood and Latin Quarter District NOTE: All participants will depart from BHCC, and travel to field locations as a group. Participants should wear comfortable walking shoes and bring Experience LGBTQ Boston—Walking Tour of the Boston a water bottle. Finally, participants are asked to monitor the weather. Pride Route If rain threatens, please bring an umbrella. Think Through Art: Exploring Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) at The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Talking About the Muslim Identity in the U.S. and Connecting With The Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center

Visit the Chinese Burial Grounds in Boston’s Mount Hope Cemetery, Forest Hills and Jamaica Plain

10 11 DAY 3 Power and Place by Design DAY 3 AGENDA 8:30–9 a.m. Breakfast | Gymnasium

Welcome | Gymnasium Day 3 of the CECW Institute is focused on designing teaching, learning and work spaces One Book Announcement that consider power and place. Examples of the ways in which faculty and staff are enacting Alison Ruch equity-minded principles, valuing cultural wealth, engaging in team building and leadership Professor of English development will be highlighted. Inquiry-based activities and showcases are designed to engage participants in two questions: What do we know about building equitable and inclusive teaching, 9:15 –10:30 a.m. Introduction learning and working environments? What more do we need to know to deepen our practice? Lloyd Sheldon Johnson, Ph.D. Professor of Behavioral Sciences

Keynote Speaker Yolander Sealy-Ruiz, Ph.D. KEYNOTE SPEAKER 10:45 a.m. –12 p.m. Concurrent Workshops

Yolanda Sealy-Ruiz, Ph.D. 12–1:15 p.m. Lunch and Plenary Address | Gymnasium Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz, Ph.D., is an associate professor of English Education at Teachers College (TC), Columbia University. Her research interests include Introduction racial literacy development, black and Latinx male students, Black girl literacies, Emmanuela Maurice Professor, English Department black female college reentry and culturally responsive pedagogy. At TC she is founder and faculty sponsor of the Racial Literacy Roundtables Series, Plenary Speaker where for 10 years, national scholars, doctoral, pre-service and in-service Robin M. Chandler, Ph.D. master’s students and young people in schools facilitate informal conversations 2018–2019 BHCC Inaugural Artist Scholar around race and other issues of diversity in schools and society. Sealey-Ruiz in Residence is also a co-founder (with Laura Smith and Lalitha Vasudevan) of the Civic The Boxes We Live In Participation Project at TC, a multi-disciplinary project that focuses on the well-being of youth involved in the foster care and juvenile justice systems. 1:30–2:45 p.m. Power and Place Teaching, Learning and Student Development Showcase She is the recipient of the American Educational Research Association’s (AERA) 2018 Revolutionary Mentor Award, and the 2016 AERA Mid-Career 3–3:30 p.m. Closing Celebration | Gymnasium Award in Teacher and Teacher Education. Mourning and The Last Night Council Fire of the WE Robin M. Chandler, Ph.D. Robin M. Chandler, Ph.D. Robin M. Chandler, Ph.D., has published and exhibited her work extensively Drum Circle Performance With Poet Voices since 1978 with a focus on social movements, arts and culture leadership, gender equality, post and neo-colonial studies, arts and culture, and race and cultural competency in nations undergoing rapid social, political and economic change. A social scientist and gender specialist, Chandler’s research in international development is focused on the inclusion of girls and women in leadership by overcoming the crisis of gender-based violence. Globally-seasoned as an artist-in-residence in France, the U.S. and South Africa, her multimedia work was featured in a solo exhibition in the fall of 2018 at Bunker Hill Community College and she served as a curator of “Revolutionary Moments II” in the spring of 2019 as part of her residency.

12 13 asset-based communications can help us national identity. The goal is two-fold: 1:30–2:45 p.m. The One Book program America. Orphaned as a child, Fatimah Asghar to discover inequities, remove barriers and first, to demonstrate, as Chandra Mohanty One Book Power and Place Teaching, Learning Program engages our College grapples with coming of age and navigating questions support student success. writes, the ways in which “uncovering and community in a dialogue of sexuality and race without the guidance of a mother reclaiming subjugated knowledge is one way and Student Development Showcase about a common text that addresses a current issue. or father. These poems at once bear anguish, joy, Reflecting on Best Practices: to lay claims to alternative histories” and second, Gymnasium Students, faculty and staff share the experience of vulnerability and compassion, while also exploring the that these knowledges, as Mohanty goes on The “Power” of Place-based This showcase will highlight examples of reading a text and examining its effects upon our many facets of violence: how it persists within us, how and Project-based Approaches of to write, “need to be understood and defined community. it is inherited across generations and how it manifests CECW curricular and co-curricular integration pedagogically, as questions of strategy and itself in our relationships. In experimental forms and Learning for Dual Enrollment and at BHCC as a result of the College’s The title of the 2019-2020 One Book is If They practice as well as of scholarship, in order to language both lyrical and raw, Asghar seamlessly Early College Educators Cultural Institutes and the 2018 CECW Come For Us: Poems by Fatimah Asghar. transform educational institutions radically.” braids together marginalized people’s histories Carlos Maynard, Room G140 Institute, Dismantling Power and Privilege From a co-creator of the Emmy-nominated web series with her own understanding of identity, place and in Higher Education. Participants will have Brown Girls comes an imaginative, soulful debut poetry belonging. Her work centers on complicates and Understanding that there are various best Vocation at the Center of the opportunity to engage with BHCC collection that captures the experiences of being celebrates queer, Muslim, and South Asian identities, practices in both curriculum and co-curriculum the Curriculum faculty and staff to learn about curricular/ a young Pakistani Muslim woman in contemporary histories and experiences. design that can benefit dual enroll and early Nicola Blake, Mary Gatta and co-curricular design, implementation and college students, this breakout session will Niesha Ziehmke, Room G139 assessment and to review sample syllabi, explore some of these best practices employed assignments, classroom activities and student by faculty and introduce examples of Guttman Community College is working development programming models from place-based and/or project-based learning intentionally to address the ways in which across the College. DAY 3 WORKSHOPS reimagined college spaces that can department has adopted individualized and teaching approaches that embrace an education is inextricably linked to career inform our thinking and our practice? recruitment practices that align to academic equity-minded practice or a cultural wealth preparation, social mobility and equity. We course outcomes and student experience. framework. will share our model of Ethnographies of 10:45 a.m.–12 p.m. Creating an Atmosphere We will also share initial data about changes Work (EOW). EOW is a required yearlong Student Showcase and Fishbowl social science exploration of work and of Belonging in the demographics of participants in Building Collaborations and paid internships after the adoption of new Discussion by Local Global Learning careers offered in the first year, which places Craig Mathers and Guy Ben-Aharon, Engagement in Chinatown Boston: recruitment practices. Faculty Fellows in Asian American students at the center of ethnographic The Classroom as Community and Room E419 explorations of New York City workplaces Studies the Community as Classroom The first section of this workshop will be How We Try in America: BHCC to better understand and exercise agency Mizuho Arai and Lindsay Naggie, around their future paths. Two linked goals Jacqueline Kerstner, Maria Kathleen on its feet. Participants will be asked to and UMB Student Voices on Their Room G227 are central to the course: a deliberate and Puente and Jennifer Valdez, Room E450 experientially explore exercises from the Chinese Diasporic Experience and critical interrogation of the systemic inequities Michael Chekhov performance approach. Navigating U.S. Higher Education: This student showcase and fishbowl This panel presentation brings together These gentle movement exercises will discussion brings together BHCC students that can act as barriers to success, and BHCC faculty and video excerpts from A Moderated Discussion by Faculty building the capacity to use that knowledge build a sense of ensemble and engage and Students from BHCC and enrolled in Asian American Infused courses interviews with three Boston Chinatown’s the group imagination in exploring the and Local Global Learning Faculty Fellows in to traverse the worlds of education and career. UMass Boston community-based organizations (CBOs)— creation of “atmosphere.” Participants will Asian American Studies. The session will This workshop will include the course the Chinatown Historical Society of New then be invited to speak from (and inhabit) Aurora Bautista and Shirley Tang begin with a walk through to view student framework and best practices, along with England, Asian American Civic Association an atmosphere for the 2nd section of the Student Panel from BHCC and work in the showcase. This will be followed an active fieldwork experience. ( AACA) and the Pao Arts Center—to share workshop, exploring questions of what it UMass Boston, Room D219 by a fishbowl style discussion in which faculty their process of developing collaborative means to create an atmosphere will share their experiences in designing their relationships with one another. Faculty This presentation will be a moderated 12–1:15 p.m. of belonging. activities and students can share the process will highlight how they are enriching their presentation of BHCC and UMB students of creating their work. The Boxes We Live in course curricula by developing lessons who are part of the recent Chinese Diaspora. Finding the Ideal Internship and activities that engage students with Students will share their experiences with Robin Chandler, Gymnasium “Teaching to Transgress”: Uncovering the historical, cultural and artistic assets Candidate: Moving Beyond learning all about American culture and This address concerns the way identity and of Boston’s Chinatown community while Self-Selection navigating higher education in the United and Reclaiming Subjugated Knowledge States. Faculty from both colleges will democratization processes are often at odds Chinatown CBO partners will share their Austin Gilliland, Room G138 Marisol Negron, Room D213 in society and higher education due to long- own takeaways on the benefits of working present and contextualize student work A recent review of the Internships and vis-a-vis their approaches to developing This workshop proceeds from the position held practices of race, class and privilege. with BHCC faculty and students. Career Development department revealed culturally responsive approaches to that critical approaches to race, gender and Reflecting on her experiences in the social

it was serving a very narrow group of teaching and learning. sexuality are central to engaged pedagogy, sciences, humanities and arts in higher Building the Impossible College students through its paid internship what Bell Hooks characterizes in her book education and international development, Regie Gibson, Room E421 programs. When asked, most of these Identifying and Addressing Teaching to Transgress as a praxis that centers Chandler’s remarks will begin with why fair

students identified that they came to the self-actualization and pedagogical approaches play, equity and a welcoming workplace This workshop will engage participants in Inequities: Asset-Based Approach internship office because they felt they that engage students as producers of facilitate a more democratic and level-playing poetically imagining a new college—one to Data Analysis, Policy Reform were qualified for a paid internship. As alternative forms of knowledge both within field for learning. Parts II and III will situate this in which classrooms, support centers, and Student Communication part of the review, we asked: “What about and beyond the classroom. Participants in Inaugural Residency as an example of how student spaces and administrative offices those students who weren’t self-selecting Liya Escalera, Room E230 this workshop will work through a classroom interdisciplinary encounters in teaching and are grounded in a framework of equity as qualified candidates?” In this session, activity wherein teachers and students analyze learning can create empowering exchanges and cultural wealth. What does this new Using the recent revision of the BHCC we will question what it means to be an a primary source, unpack its literal and between faculty, staff and students for a college look like, feel like and sound like? Academic Standing Policy as a case “ideal candidate” from career development symbolic meanings and produce alternative racism-and sexism-free environment What is happening in these poetically study, participants will explore ways in and industry lenses, and share how the which equity-minded frameworks and understandings of race, gender and

14 15 BIOGRAPHIES OF FACILITATORS, PERFORMERS AND FIELD STUDY PARTNERS

Asian American Studies Program dozen publications in print. Tang is Nicola Blake, Ph.D. overcoming the crisis of gender-based violence. Pamela A. Ellis, Esq. residencies in Brazil, Taiwan, France, Costa Rica at UMass Boston co-principal investigator for UMB’s current Nicola Blake, Ph.D., is an associate professor Globally-seasoned as an artist-in-residence in Pam Ellis is a member of the Nipmuc Tribe and Cuba. She is a member of Women of Since 2012, the long-term academic/ five-year, $1.75 million Asian American Native of English at Guttman Community College France, the U.S. and South Africa, her multimedia in Massachusetts and holds an A.B. from Color Quilter’s Network, a City of Boston AIR community partner of BHCC in the areas of American Pacific Islander Serving Institution of the City University of New York, where she work was featured in a solo exhibition in the Dartmouth College and J.D. and Certificate in artist, resident artist at South End Technology local Asian American community histories, (AANAPISI) grant through 2021. She received has served as faculty advisor to the povost, fall of 2018 at Bunker Hill Community College Indian Law from the Arizona State University Center and MIT FabLab in Boston and a Asian American Studies pedagogy and the Chancellor’s Award for Distinguished special advisor to the provost for faculty and she served as a curator of “Revolutionary College of Law where she was a Yates Fellow. member of Boston Seaport’s Cross Cultural curriculum design, and AANAPISI-centered Teaching at UMB in 2016, and was the first Development and Mentoring, and liberal arts Moments II” in the spring of 2019 as part of She was admitted to the practice of law in Collective. She recently collaborated with the research and development is the Asian woman of color to achieve this honor in the and sciences coordinator. Currently, Dr. Blake her residency. Massachusetts in 2001 and was a member Office of Women’s Advancement and Office of American Studies Program at UMass Boston. university’s history. In Spring 2019, she taught acts as interim dean of Faculty Affairs. Prior to of the Mohegan Tribal Bar from 2001 to 2004. Recovery Services to increase resources and an advanced-level Asian American Studies joining the founding faculty at Guttman, Richard T. Chu, Ph.D. She has served as a member of the awareness of women who are recovering from Peter Nien-chu Kiang, Ed.D., is course on Chinese Diaspora and AANAPISI Dr. Blake taught at Rutgers University, New Richard T. Chu is a Five-College associate Hassanamisco Nipmuc Indian Council and the substance abuse through a multi-disciplinary Professor and Director of the Asian American Leadership. Tang holds a PhD in American Brunswick and The City College of New York, professor of history at the University of Nipmuc Nation Council, and currently serves and public fiber art project titled “When Studies Program in the School for Global Studies from SUNY Buffalo and a B.A. degree (CUNY) for over 10 years. At CUNY, she was Massachusetts, Amherst. He is the author of on the Natick Nipmuc Indian Council as Tribal Women Succeed: The Quilted Path.” Her fiber Inclusion and Social Development (SGISD) in English with Honors from Chinese University Director of the Samuel Rudin Academic Chinese and Chinese Mestizos of Manila: Historian and Genealogist. She has served as an works serve to document history and memory, at the University of Massachusetts Boston of Hong Kong. Resource Center and led numerous Family, Identity, and Culture 1860s–1930s Advisory Board member to the Massachusetts and often include innovative technology. Her where he has taught since 1987. Kiang’s presidential initiatives on student success. (E.J. Brill, 2010; Anvil 2012) and other Center for Native American Awareness and as works are included in the permanent research, teaching and advocacy in both Phitsamay Sychitkokhong Uy, Ed.D., is She was awarded the prestigious and highly publications focusing on the history of the a member of the Board of Directors of Nipmuk collections of the Museum of Art and Design, K-12 and higher education with Asian associate professor in the College of Education competitive American Council on Education Chinese in the Philippines and Asian Naushaonk, Inc. For the past eighteen years, Smithsonian Institution and the White House. American immigrant/refugee students and co-director of the Center for Asian American (ACE) Fellowship for 2016-2017. As an ACE Americans. He teaches courses on the history she has served as an organizer of the Deer and communities have been supported by Studies at University of Massachusetts-Lowell. Fellow, she focused on student success of the Chinese diaspora, Philippines, U.S. Island Memorial which honors the memory Gastón Institute for Latino Community the National Academy of Education, the She has over 20 years of teaching experience initiatives, strategic planning and community Empire in the Pacific and Asian/Pacific/ of the ancestors who were forcibly removed Development and Public Policy National Endowment for the Humanities, ranging from kindergarten to doctoral partnerships. America. Recently, Dr. Chu received the from their homelands and imprisoned on The Maurico Gastón Institute for Latino the Massachusetts Teachers Association, programs. Dr. Uy has also worked as a Community Hero Award from the Deer Island in Boston Harbor during the Community Development and Public Policy the Massachusetts Association for Bilingual diversity trainer for the Anti-Defamation Terri Lynne Carrington Commonwealth of Massachusetts Asian resistance known as “King Philip’s War.” informs policymakers about issues vital to the Education and others. Since 2010, he has League, professional development facilitator Celebrating 40 years in music, three-time American Commission for his efforts in state’s growing Latino community and provides been co-principal investigator and lead for school districts, community organizer and GRAMMY® winning drummer/producer/ creating collaborative projects between Rhina Espaillat the information and analysis necessary for proposal writer for three five-year grants research, and evaluation consultant for composer Terri Lyne Carrington started her UMass, the Five Colleges Consortium, the Rhina P. Espaillat has published 12 full-length effective participation in public policy totaling $5.25M from the U.S. Department colleges and universities. She is the current professional career in Massachusetts at 10 cities of Springfield and Amherst and the books and three chapbooks, most recently a development. Since it was established at of Education for UMass Boston’s Asian associate editor of Journal of Southeast Asian years old when she became the youngest various Asian American (particularly the poetry collection titled And After All. Her work, UMass Boston in 1989, the Institute has American Native American Pacific Islander American Education and Advancement. Her person to receive a union card in Boston. Bhutanese, Vietnamese, Cambodian and which comprises poetry, essays and short consistently documented the Latino experience Serving Institution (AANAPISI) program. research focuses on immigrant and refugee After studying under a full scholarship at Filipino) communities of Western stories in both English and her native Spanish, in Massachusetts through research and Within the university, he has received both students’ experiences, especially in Southeast Berklee College of Music, Carrington went Massachusetts. and translations from and into both languages, publications directed at policymakers, scholarly the Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Asian American communities. on to a celebrated career in music, including appears in numerous journals, anthologies and audiences and Latino community leaders and Award and Distinguished Service Award. a GRAMMY®-nominated debut CD on Verve Duane de Four websites. She has received many national and institutions. For the past three years, the Nationally, he received the Distinguished Guy Ben-Aharon Forecast, “Life Story,” and GRAMMY® winning Duane de Four is an educator, media critic and international awards, including the Richard Gastón Institute has collaborated with Bunker Scholar Award from the American Educational Guy Ben-Aharon is a cultural entrepreneur and albums, “The Mosaic Project” (2011) and activist with more than 20 years of experience Wilbur Award; the Nemerov Prize; the Eliot Hill Community College and Chelsea High Research Association’s Special Interest Group: stage director committed to contemporary, “Money Jungle: Provocative in Blue” (2013). developing strategic initiatives, policies and Prize; several annual awards from the New School on the Latinx Student Success Initiative Research on the Education of Asian and international voices. Ben-Aharon has worked In 2003, Carrington received an honorary curricula as well as facilitating discussions England Poetry Club, the Poetry Society of to create a more seamless pathway from high Pacific Americans in 2013 and the Lifetime on over 50 plays in translation since 2010 doctorate from Berklee College of Music and focused on issues such as sexual and dating America and the Frost Foundation; various school to baccalaureate grounded in culturally Achievement Award from the National through Israeli Stage, Goethe-Institut, Austrian was appointed professor at the college in 2005, violence prevention, masculinity, privilege, honors from the Dominican Republic’s Ministry inclusive content and pedagogy. Association for Asian American Studies in Cultural Forum, Alliance Française and swissnex, where she currently serves as founder and power, accountability and sexual health. As a of Culture, and a Lifetime Achievement in the 2014. Kiang served for six years as chair of and over 50 academic and community center artistic director for the Berklee Institute of Jazz speaker and educator, de Four has led such Arts Award from Salem State College. A Mary Gatta, Ph.D. the Massachusetts Advisory Committee for partners that have presented the programs in and Gender Justice. She also serves as artistic discussions with middle school, high school founding member of the Melopoeia trio, Mary Gatta, Ph.D., joined the faculty as an the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and eight the U.S., Canada, Israel and the UK. He is a director for Berklee’s Summer Jazz Workshop, and incarcerated youth and with adults in Espaillat performs with poet Alfred Nicol associate professor of Sociology at Stella and years as co-president of the Chinese Historical member of the ROI Global Entrepreneurs co-curator for BAMS Fest and co-artistic colleges and universities across the United and guitarist John Tavano, as well as with the Charles Guttman Community College at CUNY Society of New England. He holds a B.A., Ed.M. Community (Schusterman Family Foundation), director of The Carr Center, Detroit, Michigan. States, as well as the NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB quintet known as The Diminished Prophets. in August 2015. Prior to her appointment at and Ed.D. from Harvard University and is a a 2013 Theatertreffen International Forum and NASCAR, all branches of the U.S. Military, CUNY, Gatta served as a senior scholar at former Community Fellow in the Department Fellow (Berlin, Germany) and 2015 AdR Fellow Robin Chandler, Ph.D. and rape prevention programs in Nairobi, L’Merchie Frazier Wider Opportunities for Women in Washington of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT. (University of Cambridge, UK). Ben-Aharon holds Robin M. Chandler, Ph.D., has published and Kenya. He has also provided expert witness L’Merchie Frazier has served for 15 years as DC, director of Gender and Workforce Policy a bachelor’s degree from Emerson College. testimony in legislative hearings and domestic at the Center for Women and Work, and Shirley Suet-ling Tang, Ph.D., is an exhibited her work extensively since 1978 with director of Education and Interpretation for the violence related cases. De Four is currently Assistant Professor of Labor Studies at Rutgers associate professor of Asian American Studies a focus on social movements, arts and culture Museum of African American History, Boston/ BHCC Equity Working Group working toward a Ph.D. in higher education University. In addition, she recently served on in the School for Global Inclusion and Social leadership, gender equality, post and Nantucket, where she highlights the Museum’s The BHCC Equity Work Group (EWG) was at UMass Boston while teaching at Bunker Hill New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy’s Labor and Development at the University of Massachusetts neo-colonial studies, arts and culture, and collection and develops place-based education convened in the Spring of 2018 and charged Community College and Merrimack College. Workforce Development Transition Team. At Boston. She is a national leader in developing race and cultural competency in nations and interdisciplinary history programs, projects with two main goals: to reimagine the role of He serves as a member of the MA Governor’s Guttman, Gatta teaches social science courses a model of curricular and pedagogical undergoing rapid social, political and and lectures. A visual artist, performance artist, the Chief Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Council on SA/DV and the board of directors and serves as the faculty coordinator of innovation for digital storytelling in Asian economic change. A social scientist and educator and activist, Frazier has served the Officer at the College; and, to design a at the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center (BARCC). Ethnographies of Work, a key component of American Studies. She has led research gender specialist, Chandler’s research in artistic community for more than 20 years as an process and select a survey instrument to Guttman’s First Year Experience. The unique projects focusing on local immigrant and international development is focused on the award-winning national and international visual assess the culture and climate of BHCC. aspect of this course and her leadership role is refugee communities and has roughly two inclusion of girls and women in leadership by and performance artist and poet, with

16 17 ensuring that career education and information award-winning writer, poet, cultural educator, Narragansett, Pequot, Mohegan and Nipmuc. Luis Paredes, Ph.D. Carolyn Rubin, Ph.D. associate director of the Mauricio Gastón is embedded within the academic curriculum traditional story teller, tribal drummer/dancer Her works’ focus is the contemporary cultural Luis F. Paredes, Ph.D., is the director of the Carolyn L. Rubin, Ph.D., is a social scientist Institute for Latino Community Development to better ensure student success at college and motivational speaker involving youth existence of the Eastern Woodland Native Office of Institutional Diversity at Bridgewater trained in theories of racial and ethnic inequality, and Public Policy at the University of and beyond. sobriety, cultural and environmental American community who still live in State University. His work is centered on immigration, community development and Massachusetts-Boston. As associate director, awareness. Within that work: Mann is also a traditional ways. Her work also serves to diversity and inclusion best practices with a qualitative methods. Her research agenda he draws on the strength and resources of the Regie Gibson curriculum developer partnered with the assert and validate the identity of the past, demonstrated history of working in the higher focuses on using collaborative community University of Massachusetts Boston to support Literary performer, actor and educator, Regie Massachusetts Dept. Public Health/Bureau present, and future generations of the education industry, having particular skill in research partnerships to address health the development of research focused on the Gibson, has lectured and performed in the of Substance, UMASS Boston and an Alliance Eastern Woodland Tribal Nations. Her establishing rapport with people from diverse disparities in underserved communities in Latino community across the state. At the U.S., Cuba and Europe. Representing the of Native American leaders. This group has business is called Painted Arrow Studio, backgrounds. Paredes is an active educator, Boston. She has led community-based institute, Dr. Torres-Ardila conducts research U.S., Gibson competed for and received both worked together for over six years to develop Talking Water Productions where consultant and resourceful trainer of diversity participatory research projects related to Asian that examines the current issues facing our the Absolute Poetry Award in Monfalcone, a multifaceted curriculum that emphasizes the she exhibits art, designs fragrances, Native and inclusion competencies to support women’s health and also developed research communities, such as Latino participation in Italy, and the Europa en Versi Award in ancient wisdom of Native American culture clothing, and teaches drawing, painting initiatives and structural organization. He capacity-building programs for community the STEM pipeline and socio-linguistic factors LaGuardia and wisdom for the prevention of drug and and jewelry. In 2014, she authored the book provides leadership in diversity programming partners. Currently, she is co-investigator on in K-12 education. As part of the institute’s di Como, Italy. He’s received the Walker alcohol abuse in middle school children. In Finding Balance: The Genealogy of to the entire campus community and thereby two community-engaged projects, one with team, Dr. Torres-Ardila diligently works to Scholarship for Poetry from the Provincetown addition, Mann travels throughout the United Massasoit’s People and Oral and Written advances the university’s mission and values. the Asian Community Development ensure that the institute supports the Fine Arts Work Center, a Mass Cultural States, Canada and parts of Europe to schools, History of the Seaconke Pokanoket Dr. Paredes was the director of Diversity and Corporation that looks at the impact of stable development of Latino community leadership Council Award, the Lexington Education colleges, pow wows and other organizations Wampanoag Tribal Nation. Her book dispels Inclusion at Stetson University, where he housing on health outcomes, and the second through partnerships with local groups. Foundation Grant for poetry, a YMCA Writer’s sharing the music, culture and history of many biases and stereotypes regarding provided leadership to, and advanced campus with the Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Fellowship and the Brother Thomas Nipmuc people. Native American culture and history and diversity and inclusion efforts. Before that, Dr. that looks at the role of arts and culture in Cynthia Woo Fellowship from The Boston Foundation. He’s offers a Wampanoag perspective on Paredes served as a Senior Academic Advisor promoting social cohesion and social networks. Cynthia Woo has been the inaugural Pao Arts served as a consultant Craig Mathers America’s history. Moorehead holds a at the University at Albany, SUNY. In Spring Dr. Rubin also directs the ADAPT Coalition, Center Director since Jan 2017. Cynthia holds for both the National Endowment for the Arts Craig Mathers is currently an associate Bachelor of Fine Arts from Swain School of 2017, he was a visiting residency artist at Duke (Addressing disparities in Asian populations a master in Art History from Tufts University “How Art Works” initiative and the “Mere professor of Performing Arts at Emerson Design and a Master of Arts in Cultural University’s Dance Program. His scholarship through translational research), a project of with a certificate in Museum Studies. Before Distinction of Color” exhibit at James College where he teaches Chekhov and Sustainability from Goucher College. focuses on identity development, dance the Tufts Clinical and Translational Science coming to BCNC, Cynthia worked at the Madison’s Montpelier. Gibbon’s work been Stanislavsky based approaches as well as performance as narrative, and race theory and Institute. The ADAPT Coalition focuses on Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Center for the published in Poetry Magazine, Harvard’s Shakespeare text. He is also a faculty Marisol Negrón, Ph.D. thought. In addition to leading the Office of strengthening the capacity of Tufts researchers Arts and LynnArts Inc. Divinity Magazine and The Iowa Review, member of the Michael Chekhov Association Marisol Negrón, Ph.D., is an Assistant Institutional Diversity, he is a visiting assistant and Chinatown community partners to use among others and is the current Poet-in and the Michael Chekhov Hudson School as Professor of American Studies and Latinx professor for the School of Social Work, and, community engaged research approaches to Niesha Ziehmke, Ph.D. Residence at Cary Memorial Library. well as a visiting faculty member of Michael Studies at UMass Boston, where she is also trains student mentors for community service address Asian American health disparities. Her In her current role as Associate Dean for Chekhov Europe in Groznjan, Croatia. affiliated with Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality learning. Dr. Paredes has taught courses work as a researcher and teacher is informed Academic Programs and Planning, Dr. Ziehmke Shaun Harper, Ph.D. Mathers has taught acting, both contemporary Studies and is core faculty in the Transnational, focusing on diversity, race, ethnicity, sexism, by 20 years of experience working as a is leading efforts to build guided pathways in Shaun R. Harper, Ph.D., is a nationally and classical, at The American Academy of Cultural, and Community Studies graduate immigration, Latin American, Caribbean, and community builder with the Asian American the majors by elevating the connections of the recognized scholar for his research on race, Dramatic Arts and at NYU’s Cap 21. He program in critical ethnic studies. Her research U.S. Latino studies, dance theory and Pacific Islander communities in various academic curriculum to transfer and career gender and other dimensions of equity in an studied under Stanford Meisner at the and teaching interests are grounded in critical and Spanish. He received his Ph.D. from the cities around the US. She grew up in San preparation, all through an equity lens. Dr. array of organizational contexts, including Neighborhood Playhouse and received his race and feminist theoretical frameworks and University at Albany, SUNY in Interdisciplinary Francisco, California. Ziehmke earned her Masters in Education from K-12 schools, colleges and universities and MFA from Yale Drama School. Mathers has approaches. Professor Negrón’s areas of Cultural, Area and Ethnic Studies. the New School and taught Spanish in a NYC corporations. Harper is currently Provost also trained at Shakespeare and Company specialization include Latino literary and Ana Solano-Campos, Ph.D. public high school for six years. She then Professor in the Rossier School of Education and is a designated Linklater teacher. He has cultural studies, Puerto Rican Cultural Studies, Lorna Rivera, Ph.D. Ana Solano-Campos, Ph.D., is a Spanish-English completed her Ph.D. in linguistics at the CUNY and the Marshall School of Business at the an ongoing relationship with Teatro Argos in culture and commodification, popular music, Lorna Rivera, Ph.D., is the director of the bilingual with a background in applied linguistics Graduate Center, with a focus on methods for University of Southern California (USC). He Havana, Cuba, teaching the Michael copyright culture, diasporic identity formation Gastón Institute for Latino Community and multicultural education. She taught English teaching academic English to students who also is the Clifford and Betty Allen Chair in Chekhov training for actors there and will and language and linguistics. Her current Development and Public Policy and an associate as a Foreign Language (EFL) and English as a speak non-academic varieties of English. While Urban Leadership, founder and executive present at the Instituto Superiore de Arte’s research examines how cultural products such professor of Latino Studies at UMass Boston. Second Language (ESL) for many years in working on her doctorate, she administered an director of the USC Race and Equity Center, (ISA) Internatonal Theater Conference next as music transmit collective memories and Dr. Rivera is the daughter of Puerto Rican culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms Educational Psychology research program in president-elect of the American Educational March in Havana. social identities across generations of Puerto immigrants and has worked as a bilingual in Costa Rica and the United States. She is now Self-Regulated Learning (SRL). From Research Association and a past president Ricans in the United States. teacher in the Chicago Public Schools and a assistant professor in the College of Education 2009-2013, Niesha served as Director for First of the Association for the Study of Higher Debra Spears Moorehead GED teacher in Roxbury. Dr. Rivera’s research and Human Development at the University of College Year Programs at Brooklyn College Education. Harper has published over 100 Deborah Spears Moorehead is an Lyssa Palu-ay, Ph.D. focuses on Latino communities, women’s Massachusetts, Boston. Dr. Solano-Campos is before taking on a position in Academic Affairs peer reviewed journal articles and other internationally known Native American, Lyssa Palu-ay is dean of the Office of health disparities and educational inequalities. interested in improving the education of at LaGuardia Community College where she academic publications, and Johns Hopkins visual, and performing artist, author, cultural Justice, Equity and Transformation (JET) at She wrote the award-winning book, Laboring bilingual and multilingual immigrant and refugee took on the challenge of improving student University Press is publishing his 13th book, bearer, educational consultant and song the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. to Learn: Women’s Literacy and Poverty in the students around the world. Her research focuses success and assessment across the institution. Race Matters in College. Harper spent a writer. She holds a Bachelors of Fine Arts JET is focused on achieving systemic equity Post-welfare Era (University of Illinois Press, 2008). on sociolinguistics and education in contexts of Throughout her career she has focused on

decade at the University of Pennsylvania from Swain School of Design and a Master in related to access, opportunity and dignity at high migration. finding systematic ways of improving equity Since 2001, Dr. Rivera has been a faculty faculty, where he was a tenured full professor Arts in Cultural Sustainability from Goucher MassArt through the areas of transformative and inclusion in each educational institution mentor for the Latino Leadership Opportunity and founding executive director of the College. She is a member of the Seaconke, learning and teaching, pathways to art and Fabián Torres-Ardila, Ph.D. she has served.d NPR, and has reco Program (LLOP) sponsored by the Gastón Center for the Study of Race and Equity Pokanoket, Wampanoag Tribal Nation, and design education, and retention and Fabián Torres-Ardila holds a Ph.D., in Institute and was a former LLOP participant in Education. descends from the “aka Thanksgiving mentoring. Her scholarship and research Mathematics from Boston University. He has (class of 1991). Her recent research and writing Indians” Chief Sachem Massasoit, who interests include the history of institutes of experience designing teacher preparation focuses on the experiences of Puerto Rican Larry Spotted Crow Mann befriended the Pilgrims in Plymouth, art and design, critical race theory, and curriculum to increase mathematics teachers’ women cancer survivors and environmental Larry Spotted Crow Mann is a member of Massachusetts, in 1621, and saved their lives experiences of students of color in art and support to English Language Learners within justice activists in Vieques, Puerto Rico. the Nipmuc Tribe of Massachusetts. He is an through their first winter. Moorehead is also design education. the mathematics classroom. Currently, he is the

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