This fireside chat features Dr. Maisha T. Winn, Excellence in Learning Graduate School of Education Professor;  Faculty Director of the Stanford Accelerator for Learning's Equity in Learning Initiative; and President of AERA (American Educational Research Association). 

 

Her fireside chat will focus upon her new book, Futuring Black Lives: Independent Black Institutions and the Literary Imagination, which examines the relationship between histories and futures during the Black Arts Movement (1965-1975) and how Black institution builders leveraged the literary imagination in service of world-building.

 

Dr. Winn has also authored Writing in Rhythm: Spoken Word Poetry in Urban Classrooms; Black Literate Lives: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives; Girl Time: Literacy, Justice, and the School-to-Prison Pipeline; and Justice on Both Sides: Transforming Education through Restorative Justice. 

 

Dr. Winn's scholarship examines how non-dominant youth and communities have developed literate trajectories across a range of historical and contemporary settings within and outside formal schooling. She seeks to understand how communities that have been depicted as under resourced create practices, processes, and institutions of their own—and what we can learn from those examples to build more just, more collaborative, and more equitable futures. An ethnographer by training, Dr. Winn also engages in historical research focused on social movements in education.