Save the date: DEI Conference registration opening soon!

Registration opens next week for the 14th annual College of Education Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Conference. The conference will be held from 8:15 a.m.-1:30 p.m on Friday, Feb. 22, at the Center for Continuing Education & Hotel. The conference theme this year, No Body and No Mind Left Behind: Disability, Justice, and Collective Intersectional Action, centers on increasing awareness, knowledge, skill development, and action on issues of disability and ableism and its intersections with other identities and experiences.

Sonya Renee Taylor’s keynote, Your Body is Not an Apology: Radical Self-Love and Disability Justice, will open the conference, followed by multiple break-out sessions and a closing keynote panel with Taylor and College of Education stakeholders and community partners.

Sonya Renee Taylor is the founder and radical executive officer of The Body is Not An Apology, a digital media and education company with content reaching half a million people each month. Sonya’s work as an award-winning performance poet, activist, and transformational leader continues to have global reach. She was named one of the 12 Women Who Paved the Way for Body Positivity by Bustle Magazine and, in September 2015, she was honored as a YBCA 100, an annual compilation of creative minds, makers, and pioneers who are asking questions and making provocations that will shape the future of American culture; an honor she shared alongside author Ta-Nehisi Coates, artist Kara Walker, filmmaker Ava Duvernay, and many more. Taylor and her work have been seen, heard, and read on HBO, BET, MTV, TV One, NPR, PBS, CNN, Oxygen Network, The New York Times, New York Magazine, MSNBC.com, Today.com, Huffington Post, Vogue Australia, Shape.com, Ms. Magazine, and many more.