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Roberto Rivera - Keynote Speaker
Roberto has spoken at, and received standing ovations from, some of the top education conferences in the world including SXSW-EDU, CASEL's 25th Anniversary Social and Emotional Learning Exchange, and ACT's Social and Emotional Learning and Equity Conference. He has been featured on several television programs and newspaper outlets (WGN-Chicago, Univision-Miami, WSJ-Wisconsin), and is a pioneer in combining social and emotional learning, healing centered education, utilizing racial equity and social justice approaches.
Topics:
Healing and Thriving in Tumultuous Times
In this talk, Roberto shares research and gives practical examples on how school communities are creating educational ecosystems where staff and students are healing from grief and trauma and learning to thrive.
From Breakdown to Breakthrough: Culturally Sustaining SEL in Practice
In this talk, Roberto gives practical examples of a sustaining model for SEL that centers equity, prioritizes healing, and transforms school culture by authentically engaging youth and community assets and voice.
From Surviving to Thriving: The Critical Role of Relationships
In this talk Roberto combines stories from his own life and work with research that emphasizes the transformative role positive relationships with educators and mentors can play in the lives of "at-opportunity" youth.
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“We have engaged Roberto Rivera to speak at multiple conferences, he is the best speaker I have ever seen”
-Pamela Jenson
Dr. Sharim Hannegan Martinez
Sharim Hannegan-Martinez is an educator, community-engaged scholar, speaker, and activist. She is a founding member of the People’s Education Movement and currently serves as an assistant professor in the department of curriculum and instruction at the University of Kentucky. Before graduating from UCLA with her Phd, she was a high school English teacher in East Oakland. She has delivered keynotes and workshops across the country where she explores topics such as trauma-informed pedagogies, social emotional learning, loving relationships, grief, and healing.
Some examples of her keynotes and workshops include the following:
Towards a Pedagogy of [More] Love
In this talk, Sharim shares 15 years work of research on love and why it is necessary for healing from trauma and for overall wellness. She offers her framework for a pedagogy of love and guides participants through a reflection on their own relationships, offering practical suggestions for how they can grow their capacity to love.
Beyond SEL: Love as a Praxis for Healing
In this talk, Sharim challenges current conceptualizations and applications of social emotional learning, arguing that most are in fact harmful to students, particularly Students of Color. She instead offers how fostering loving classrooms can serve to make space for embodied emotions.
Love and Loss: Grief as a Portal
In this talk, Sharim draws on her own experiences and interdisciplinary theories to explore the multitudes of grief we are currently experiencing and holding in our bodies. She offers practices for redefining our relationship to grief, arguing that grief can serve as an opportunity to deepen our relationships to ourselves, to our ancestors, and others.
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Dr. Janiece Mackey
Dr. Janiece Mackey created an organization entitled Young Aspiring Americans for Social and Political Activism (YAASPA).YAASPA endeavors to build the self-efficacy of BIPOC youth to reclaim academic, civic and career spaces through race conscious leadership and transformative organizing.
Some examples of her keynotes and workshops include the following:
Counter-storytelling Across Varying Youth Contexts and Intergenerational Work in YPAR Settings
This topic underscores healthy tensions of navigating youth participatory action research (YPAR) and writing in an academic and intergenerational context.
Internal Tensions of Building a Dissertation through the Lens of Black Finesse: Toward Decolonizing Higher Education
I focus on the process of building a dissertation that honored the Black souls of my undergraduate participants along with my own Black soul as a form of resistance to advance racial equity in higher education.
Race-Grounded Ways to Move Beyond Interest Convergence
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