Keynote Speakers

Thursday June 11, 2015    Dr. Elaine Richardson is a Professor in the College of Education and Human Ecology of The Ohio State University. She received her Ph.D. from Michigan State University. Her research interests include hip-hop literacies, Afro diaspora studies, sociolinguistics, and critical discourse analysis. Dr. Richardson is an award-winning author, having written and co-edited six books, among them African American Literacies and Hip-hop Literacies. Her latest book, an urban education memoir, is PHD (Po H# on Dope) to Ph.D.: PHD to PHD.

Friday June 12, 2015  Dr. Kevin Kumashiro is Dean of the School of Education, University of San Francisco. He has published influential works in educational reform, anti-oppressive education, and teaching for social justice. His masterpiece, Troubling Education, earned him the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award in 2003. His other published books include: Bad Teacher!: How Blaming Teachers Distorts the Bigger Picture, Against Common Sense: Teaching and Learning Toward Social Justice, The Seduction of Common Sense: How the Right Has Framed the Debate on America's Schools, Six Lenses for Anti-Oppressive Education, and Troubling Intersections of Race and Sexuality. Dr. Kumashiro is the president of the National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME), founding director of the Center for Anti-Oppressive Education, and founding member of the Chicagoland Researchers and Advocates for Transformative Education (CReATE). Learn more about Dr. Kumashiro at his departmental website and his professional website.