JoLLE Winter 2021
Virtual Conference
Keynote Speakers
Cultivating Accountable Community and Empowering Solidarity in Language and Literacy Education
Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz
Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz is an award-winning associate professor at Teachers College, Columbia University. Her research focuses on racial literacy in teacher education, Black girl literacies, and Black and Latinx male high school students. A sought-after speaker on issues of race, culturally responsive pedagogy, and diversity, Sealey-Ruiz works with K-12 and higher education school communities to increase their racial literacy knowledge and move toward more equitable school experiences for their Black and Latinx students. Sealey-Ruiz appeared in Spike Lee’s “2 Fists Up: We Gon’ Be Alright,” a documentary about the Black Lives Matter movement and the campus protests at Mizzou. Her co-authored book (with Dr. Detra Price-Dennis), "Advancing Racial Literacies in Teacher Education: Toward Activism for Equity in Digital Spaces," is available for pre-order now, and her first full-length collection of poetry, "Love from the Vortex & Other Poems" (Kalediscope Vibrations LLC), was published in March 2021.
K. Wayne Yang
K. Wayne Yang is a professor and provost of John Muir College at University of California, San Diego. Yang’s work transgresses the line between scholarship and community, as evidenced by his involvement in urban education and community organizing. Yang writes about decolonization and everyday epic organizing, particularly from underneath ghetto colonialism, often with his frequent collaborator, Eve Tuck. Currently, they are convening The Land Relationships Super Collective, editing a book series, "Indigenous and Decolonizing Studies in Education," and editing a journal, “Critical Ethnic Studies.” He is interested in the complex role of cities in global affairs: cities as sites of settler colonialism, as stages for empire, as places of resettlement and gentrification, and as always-already on Indigenous lands.
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