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2025 Theme:

Trauma, Resilience, and the Impact of Migration: A call for Humanizing and Loving Practices in Education

Saturday, March 1, 2025
at 9:00am
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 will be Sonia Nazario.

Sonia Nazario is an award-winning journalist whose stories have tackled some of this country’s most intractable problems -- hunger, drug addiction, immigration. Nazario is best known for "Enrique's Journey," the story of a Honduran boy’s struggle to find his mother in the U.S. Published as a series in the Los Angeles Times, "Enrique's Journey" won the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing in 2003. It was turned into a book by Random House and became a national bestseller. 

Nazario, who grew up in Kansas and in Argentina, has written extensively from Latin America and about Latinos in the United States. She has been named among the most influential Latinos by Hispanic Business Magazine and a “trendsetter” by Hispanic Magazine. In 2012 Columbia Journalism Review named Nazario among “40 women who changed the media business in the past 40.” In 2020, Parade Magazine named Nazario one of “50+ Most Influential Latin-American Women in History.” She is a graduate of Williams College and has a master’s degree in Latin American studies from the University of California, Berkeley. She has honorary doctorates from Mount St. Mary’s College and Whittier College. She began her career at the Wall Street Journal, and later joined the Los Angeles Times. She is now at work on her second book.

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, March 1, 2025 
 

Schedule

• Check-in: 9:00 am to 9:15 am (Grand Salon)
• Welcome remarks: 9:15 am to 9:25 am
• Panel Discussion: 9:25 am to 10:00 am
• Breakout Sessions: 10:10 am to 12:25 pm (Del Norte Hall)
• Lunch and Mariachi Performance: 12:25 pm to 12:45 pm (Grand Salon)
• Keynote Speaker:12:50 pm to 2:00 pm
• Closing remarks:2:15 pm to 2:30 pm