The Education for Social Justice Conference is a space for youth, educators, and community members to build relationships and learn how to transform our schools towards justice and inclusiveness. We hosted our first conference in 2023.

top let: two youth and one adult giving a presentation bottom left: three people looking at a shirt middle: many people sitting on bleachers top right: an altar for Deborah Lisi-Baker bottom right: 3 students

Education for Social Justice Conference

Examples of Previous Workshops

  • Liberating Youth Voices for Authentic Partnership

  • Moving from PBIS-Based Compliance Behavior Systems to Restorative Values-Based Systems

  • Amplifying the Linguistic Resources of Multilingual Student Voices

  • Ditching Diet Culture at School: Building and Sustaining Learning Spaces Where Fat Bodies Fit

  • I Matter: Celebrating Difference Through Self-Portraits

  • Issues of Identity and Disability Pride: The Importance of Self-Advocacy

  • Queering Up History

  • Making Our Schools More Neurodiversity-Affirming

  • Take Care Project: Building Menstrual Equity in Vermont Schools & Communities

What makes our conference different?

  • Childcare is provided

  • Low-sensory spaces

  • Masks are required

  • All gender restrooms

  • Wheelchair access

  • Help with carpooling

  • a Care Team who’s available to help you process when harm and conflict arises

  • an abundance of art and poetry

  • screen print a shirt with a design created by a student and take it home with you

  • emphasis on community building

  • really delicious food

  • youth, disability, and BiPOC led

  • Rhiannon Kim and Alex Venet posing for a photo

  • Aden Haji in front of his presentation about emotional dysregulation and driving

  • Four youth and two adults building their dream classrooms using cardboard boxes and craft supplies

  • Five participants and the presenter, Sefakor, posing for a photo at her workshop on disability pride

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  • Rebel Diaz performing while some people are dancing and some are sitting and watching

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  • Two people helping folks check-in at the conference

  • Someone screen printing a shirt

  • two people coordinating the hybrid option for the conference

  • Kayla Loving, Alyssa Chen, and Dana Decker posing for a photo in front of White River Valley High School

  • Tables of organizations lined up with the Providence Student Union table in the front