In this Research as Praxis Speaker Series workshop, panelists will discuss their experience as collaborators in a participatory research project taking place through The People’s Think Tank for Education Justice, a national coalition of over 50 movement builders engaged in relationship and movement building for educational justice. The project uses the arts and participatory research to bring organizers together across communities of color and issue-based movements to address the siloing that facilitates exclusivity among organizing efforts, and build a more powerful and inclusive movement for educational justice and community liberation. Participants will learn how organizing intersectionally and with the arts deeply engages young people to envision their own futures and work in solidarity with others for common liberation. 

PROGRAM FEATURES: 

• Spoken Word poetry performance
  • Patrice Hill and Denisha “Coco” Bland,  Sacramento Area Youth Speaks (SAYS)
• “How participatory research and storytelling lift up the voices of trans, queer and two-spirit youth and help build an intersectional movement for liberation.” 
  • Geoffrey Winder and J. Gia Living, Genders and Sexualities Alliance (GSA) Network
• “How the arts and activist scholarship combine to support the liberation of young people of color in schools and communities.”
  • Vajra Watson, Senior Associate Vice President, CSU Sacramento, and cofounder of Sacramento Area Youth Speaks (SAYS)
  • Patrice Hill and Denisha “Coco” Bland from Sacramento Area Youth Speaks (SAYS)
• “The People’s Think Tank for Educational Justice: Building a Intersectional Movement for Transforming Schools and Communities”
  • Mark R. Warren, University of Massachusetts Boston and cofounder, People’s Think Tank

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The Research as Praxis (RaP) Workshop Series is for graduate students and others interested in learning more about and developing skills and knowledge in community engaged and societally-impactful scholarship. The theme of this year's workshop series is "Designing Research that Contributes to More Equitable Societal Outcomes."

The workshop series is open to al Stanford graduate students, faculty, staff, and community partners.