2012 Conference Keynote Speakers

We are pleased to announce the Keynote Speakers
for the 22nd Annual
International NAME Conference

November 28 – December 1, 2012 • Philadelphia, PA

Thursday Opening Plenary/The Rose Duhon-Sells Lecture
Topic: Global Organizing of Indigenous Peoples

-Susan Faircloth
Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at Pennsylvania State University,
Fulbright Senior Scholar in New Zealand
http://www.ed.psu.edu/educ/eps/edldr/faculty-and-staff-directory/susan-faircloth

Thursday Evening Plenary Panel
Topic: Looking to the Future of Multicultural Education

-Gloria Bonilla-Santiago
Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor of Public Policy & Administration at Rutgers University, Director of the Community Leadership Center http://dppa.camden.rutgers.edu/staff/gsantiago.html

-Simi Linton
Co-Director of the University Seminar on Disability Studies at Columbia University & Author of My Body Politic
http://www.similinton.com

-Tania Unzueta
Immigrant Youth Justice League
http://www.iyjl.org

Friday Afternoon Plenary
Topic: Race, Politics, and the Struggle over Education

Molefi Kete Asante
Professor of African American Studies at Temple University Author of Rooming in the Master’s House: Power and Privilege in the Rise of Black Conservatism
http://www.asante.net/

Saturday am Plenary Panel
Topic: Curriculum on Social-Justice Movements and School Reform

-Chicago Grassroots Curriculum Taskforce

http://www.grassrootscurriculum.org/

The Chicago Grassroots Curriculum Taskforce (CGCT) is working to revolutionize the traditional educational model of classroom learning by infusing the curriculum with local and relevant content from students’ lives – through their families, cultures, histories, arts, communities, and experiences. As a locally- based national clearinghouse, the CGCT seeks to bring students, parents, educators, and elders to the table to compile, publish, and advocate for these culturally relevant materials in our schools (grades Pre-K through Ph.D.).

-Project South

http://www.projectsouth.org/

Project South is a grassroots organization based in the US South. For over 23 years, we have created critical spaces for movement building. We work with communities pushed forward by the struggle to strengthen leadership for long-term transformation. Our programs focus on communities of color affected by social control and economic degradation created by historic and current trends of privatization, exploitation, and structural racism in the US. We provide popular political education through our dynamic leadership development models, and we build relationships with organizations and networks across the US and global South.

-Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding
https://www.tanenbaum.org/

The daily abuse of religion threatens world peace. At Tanenbaum, we promote mutual respect with practical programs that bridge religious difference and combat prejudice in areas of armed conflict, schools, workplaces, and health care settings. Despite its potential to divide us, religion need not – and should not – be a source of division. Every day, Tanenbaum creates the tools that reduce religious conflict and help build a more inclusive, peaceful world.