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9:00am PDT

Opening

Saturday August 2, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am PDT

Highline College

Saturday August 2, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am PDT
Highline College 2400 S 240th St, Des Moines, WA 98198, USA

10:00am PDT

Keynote

Saturday August 2, 2025 10:00am - 11:00am PDT

Highline College

Keynote with Dr. Django Paris and Dr. Chelsea Craig

Saturday August 2, 2025 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
Highline College 2400 S 240th St, Des Moines, WA 98198, USA

11:00am PDT

Keynote Reflection/Racial Affinity Space

Saturday August 2, 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm PDT

Highline College

Saturday August 2, 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm PDT
Highline College 2400 S 240th St, Des Moines, WA 98198, USA

12:00pm PDT

Lunch

Saturday August 2, 2025 12:00pm - 1:00pm PDT

Highline College

Saturday August 2, 2025 12:00pm - 1:00pm PDT
Highline College 2400 S 240th St, Des Moines, WA 98198, USA

1:00pm PDT

Healing ourselves

Saturday August 2, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm PDT

Mt. Constance

Our ancestors, known and unknown, have handed down the wisdom to us to heal ourselves from both historical trauma and the ongoing trauma of navigating the world in which we live, work, and play. Let’s come together to share our wisdom, our narrative, and our strength.

Presenters

Anita Garcia Morales

Anita Garcia Morales is a presenter, facilitator, collaborator, educator, and coach. More about her in her own words, “I walk in purpose because I believe an inherent need is alive in each and every person for a sense of belonging, significance, connection, and community, and I... Read More →

Saturday August 2, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm PDT
Mt. Constance 2400 Desmoines

1:00pm PDT

NAKIA Academy, A Professional Learning Community by and for Educators of Color LIMITED

Saturday August 2, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm PDT

Highline College

NAKIA Academy is a mentoring and leadership academy jointly sponsored by OSPI and WEA, created by people of color and open to people of color. The purpose of NAKIA Academy is to form a community of continuous growth and support. Educators in NAKIA Academy come together to lead, organize and create equitable spaces in education. The academy brings educators together in cohort groups to focus on thinking, learning, interacting, skill-building, networking and joy.

Presenters

Patricia Beuke

Patricia Beuke is a current NAKIA academy facilitator.

Saturday August 2, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm PDT
Highline College 2400 S 240th St, Des Moines, WA 98198, USA

2:30pm PDT

Break LIMITED

Saturday August 2, 2025 2:30pm - 2:45pm PDT

Highline College

Saturday August 2, 2025 2:30pm - 2:45pm PDT
Highline College 2400 S 240th St, Des Moines, WA 98198, USA

2:45pm PDT

Dismantling and Disrupting the School to Prison Pipeline: Voices of the Formerly Incarcerated Panel

Saturday August 2, 2025 2:45pm - 4:15pm PDT

Highline College

Through an interactive discussion, modeling inquiry-based collaborative learning, we will address the consequences and present creative solutions to interrupting the school to prison pipeline. We will address the harm created in school systems that devalue the voices of marginalized students, including issues of curriculum and teaching, and present solutions that allow students (and teachers) to discover and become their authentic selves while challenging school policies and systems that subject students to harm and intellectual violence.

All of the co-facilitators are also formerly incarcerated.

Presenters

Mark Perry

Dr. Mark Perry is formerly incarcerated, a sponsor for the Black Prisoners Caucus at the Twin Rivers Unit of the Monroe Correctional Complex, a Board member of the Seattle Clemency Project, a recently retired K-12 teacher and principal, and the author of “Walking the Color Line... Read More →

Saturday August 2, 2025 2:45pm - 4:15pm PDT
Highline College 2400 S 240th St, Des Moines, WA 98198, USA

2:45pm PDT

Let This Radicalize You: Building Collectivity and Radical Praxis in Education

Saturday August 2, 2025 2:45pm - 4:15pm PDT

Mt. Constance

This session invites educators and leaders in education to explore how organizing can become a central practice in advancing educational justice. Rooted in principles of interdependence, mutual aid, and community care, we’ll reflect on our own organizing in solidarity for Free Palestine and the diverse roles we each play in collective movements. Participants will engage in practical exercises, drawn from the Let This Radicalize You Workbook, to develop the muscle of collectivity—preparing us to act when it matters most. Through discussions on organizing hurdles and a creative protest art activity, participants will be empowered to call each other in, challenge oppressive systems, and radicalize their approaches to building communities of care. Together, we will reimagine how organizing practices can support educational liberation.

Presenters

Alejandra Pérez

Alejandra Pérez (she/ella) is an educator, community organizer, and a current PhD student in Culturally Sustaining Education at the University of Washington.

Saturday August 2, 2025 2:45pm - 4:15pm PDT
Mt. Constance 2400 Desmoines