Speakers
Joaquin Alvarado
Friday, March 2 @ 12:30 – 1:30
KATE BUCHANAN ROOM
Joaquín Alvarado is the Founding Director of the Institute for Next Generation Internet at San Francisco State University. In addition to his leadership role in education, Joaquín Alvarado is also an award winning documentary filmmaker, writer, producer and director. His films have been featured in numerous film festivals, including the AFI Los Angeles International Film, the San Francisco Independent Film Festival, and the San Francisco Frameline Film Festival.
Mitch Factor
Friday, March 2 @ 6:30 PM
KATE BUCHANAN ROOM
Mitch Factor was born and raised in Shawnee , Oklahoma . Mitch was the youngest of ten and the son of a single parent. Times were hard financially but his family always seemed to manage. Humor played a big part in getting through some tough times. Mitch discovered stand-up comedy at the age of six. His idols were Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin. “I do not know what or where that is but I want to go there!” he thought, he was later influenced by George Carlin, Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy and Rodney Dangerfield. After a few stunt parts in film Mitch vowed never to wear another breach cloth again and focused on the stage. Mitch began stand-up comedy in the early nineties at that same time he got involved in Indian Head Start in Wisconsin .
Mitch worked as a Head Start teacher and education coordinator for over ten years. Eventually the comedy took over the Early Childhood Education and Mitch then began Stand-up comedy full time. To stay connected to Indian Head Start, Mitch has developed a team building training for Indian Head Start staff.
Bill Ayers
Saturday, March 3 @ 8:45 AM
KATE BUCHANAN ROOM
William Ayers, Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), and founder of both the Small Schools Workshop and the Center for Youth and Society, teaches courses in interpretive and qualitative research, urban school change, and teaching and the modern predicament. A graduate of the University of Michigan , the Bank Street College of Education, and Teachers College, Columbia University , Ayers has written extensively about social justice, democracy and education, the political and cultural contexts of schooling, and the meaning-making and ethical purposes of students and families and teachers. His articles have appeared in many journals including the Harvard Educational Review, the Journal of Teacher Education, Teachers College Record, Rethinking Schools , the Nation, and the Cambridge Journal of Education. His books include A Kind and Just Parent: The Children of Juvenile Court (Beacon Press, 1997), The Good Preschool Teacher: Six Teachers Reflect on Their Lives, (Teachers College Press, 1989), and To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher, (Teachers College Press, 1993) which was named Book of the Year in 1993 by Kappa Delta Pi, and won the Witten Award for Distinguished Work in Biography and Autobiography in 1995. Edited books include: To Become a Teacher: Making a Difference in Children’s Lives (Teachers College Press, 1995); with Janet Miller, A Light in Dark Times: Maxine Greene and the Unfinished Conversation (Teachers College Press, 1997); with Pat Ford, City Kids/City Teachers: Reports from the Front Row (The New Press, 1996); with Jean Ann Hunt and Therese Quinn, Teaching for Social Justice: A Democracy and Education Reader (The New Press and Teachers College Press, 1998); with Mike Klonsky and Gabrielle Lyon, A Simple Justice: The Challenge of Small Schools (Teachers College Press, 2000); and with Rick Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, Zero Tolerance: Resisting the Drive for Punishment—A handbook for parents, students, educators and citizens (The New Press, 2001). Recent books include Fugitive Days: A Memoir (Beacon Press, 2001), On the Side of the Child: Summerhill Revisited (Teachers College Press, 2003), Teaching the Personal and the Political: Essays on Hope and Justice (Teachers College Press, 2004), and Teaching Toward Freedom: Moral Commitment and Ethical Action in the Classroom (Beacon Press, 2004).
Adrienne Marie Brown
Saturday, March 3 @ 1:00
“Questions on Movement and Change”
Adrienne Maree Brown is the Executive Director of the Ruckus Society. She also serves on the boards of Wiretapmag.org, the Brower Center, the Allied Media Conference, and National Healthcare-NOW. Also known as a co-founder of the League of Young/Pissed Off Voters, Adrienne was co-editor of the youth organizing collection How to Get Stupid White Men Out of Office. As a writer, singer, and organizer, Adrienne has been involved in the growth of many organizations, most recently the New Orleans Network, the Future 5000, and the Arctic Indigenous Alliance. She believes actions speak louder than words, she's trying to live that way.
Tim’m West
"The Warring We Do: activism, academia and working across differences."
Saturday, March 3 @ 5:30 PM
KATE BUCHANAN ROOM
Black, queer, feminist, poz, and working class, Tim’m T. West has embraced all of who he is and, with laser-beam precision, harnessed the power of his truth to illuminate, celebrate, inspire, provoke, and bear witness. As an author/publisher, poet, emcee, scholar and activist who in 1999 co-founded Deep Dickollective, Tim’m established himself as one of the more dynamic and influential Renaissance artists coming into the 21st Century. In 2003 he released a critically acclaimed poetic memoir Red Dirt Revival, in 2005 a chapbook BARE, and will release his second full-length book, Flirting in early 2007. Musically, he released his solo debut, Songs from Red Dirt on Cellular Records. Tim'm is also preparing for the release of Blakkboy Blue(s), its highly anticipated follow-up, and On Some Other, DDC's third full-studio album project. A cultural critic, he is widely published in academic and literary anthologies, journals, and other publications. Tim'm is also featured in two critically acclaimed Hip Hop documentaries: Alex Hinton's "Pick Up the Mic" (LOGO) and Byron Hurt's "Beyond Beats and Rhymes" (PBS). He has taught at Stanford University, Oakland School of the Arts, and Cesar Chavez Public Charter High School for Public Policy. Tim’m resides in Washington, DC.
Madhu Prakash and Gustavo Esteva
Sunday, March 4 @ 1:30 pm
Madhu Suri Prakash is Professor of Education at the Pennsylvania State University and recipient of the Eisenhower Award for Distinguished Teaching. She received her Ph.D. in Philosophy of Education from Syracuse University. In addition to numerous articles in professional journals including educational Theory, Teachers College Record, and AJE, she has co-authored Grassroots Postmodernism: Remaking the Soil of Cultures (1998).
Gustavo Esteva has served as public servant, university professor, and for the past twenty years, as a grassroots activist working with Indian groups, peasants and the urban marginalized. The many posts he has held include President of the firth World Congress on Rural Sociology, Interim Chairman of the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) Board, President of the Mexican Society for Planning, and Vice-President of the Inter-American Society for Planning. The author of several hundred articles and a dozen books, he has coauthored Grassroots Postmodernism: Remaking the Soil of Cultures (1998)
Special Events:
Salmon Is Everything
Saturday, March 3 @ 2:00
Studio Theater (Theater Arts Bldg.)
Deep Dickollective
Saturday, March 3 @ 9:00 pm
KATE BUCHANAN ROOM
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