2026 Theme:
El Amor Como Resistencia:
Healing and Educational Justice for Our Immigrant Communities
Saturday, February 28, 2026 at 8:00 a.m.
An In-Person Conference at California State University Channel Islands
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About the Conference
We are pleased to announce that this year's keynote speaker is Dr. Antero Garcia with a special appearance from his co-author, Alix Dick.
Antero Garcia is a professor in the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University. His research explores the possibilities of speculative imagination and healing in educational research. Prior to completing his Ph.D., Garcia was an English teacher at a public high school in South Central Los Angeles. He has authored or edited more than two dozen books about the possibilities of literacies, play, and civics in transforming schooling in America. Antero currently co-edits La Cuenta, an online publication centering the voices and perspectives of individuals labeled undocumented in the U.S. Antero received his Ph.D. in the Urban Schooling division of the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Alix Dick is a filmmaker, researcher, and writer originally from Sinaloa, Mexico. She is the author of The Cost of Being Undocumented: One Woman’s Reckoning with America’s Inhumane Math. Alix has worked closely with multiple immigrant rights organizations and was named an Artist Disruptor by the Center for Cultural Power. She is an in-demand presenter and the co-editor and founder of La Cuenta, an online publication centering the perspectives of individuals labeled undocumented. Alix has authored numerous essays and op-eds for publications across the United States. Alix lives in Los Angeles.
Attendance is free and open to the public.
Each year, CSUCI's Annual Conference for Social Justice in Education is offered at no cost to participants. There is no registration fee, and parking and lunch will be provided to all registered attendees. Our thinking is that these kinds of conversations are so essential, and we want people from all walks of life to contribute to them. We want parents, grandparents, P12 students, community college and university students, teachers, professors, school board members, administrators, community educators, and other members of the public to sit with each other and figure out how we can make progress together toward achieving social justice in and through education.
Our conference will be in-person— offered at no charge to participants. Advanced registration will be required.
The purpose of this annual event is to showcase the social justice oriented work being done in and around schools and educational institutions in the region, to network with others who believe in the power and necessity of such work, and to learn from one another about how best to teach and learn in ways that promote equity, peace, and integrity in public education.
When: Saturday, February 28, 2026
Schedule
Coming soon!
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