Call for reviewers for the 2021 DEI Conference
Reviewers of the 2021 Mary Frances Early College of Education Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Conference will play an integral role in the creation of content offered at the event. Your input will ensure that this year’s conference content remains interdisciplinary and of the highest quality. This year’s conference theme is, “What’s Education Got to Do With It? Embracing Joy, Healing, and Collective Action.” The DEI Conference Planning Committee hopes you will consider volunteering for this important service.
- Deadline to apply to serve as a reviewer: Monday, Jan. 25
Serving as a reviewer for conference proposals will entail:
- Looking over two to three DEI session submissions and scoring them against a conference session rubric
- Providing a suggestion to accept or reject conference proposals
- Offering developmental feedback on all proposals reviewed
You will have two weeks to complete reviews. The review period will run Wednesday, Feb. 3-Wednesday, Feb. 17. If you are interested in serving as a reviewer, please complete our form.
More information will be provided to reviewers, but in general, the proposals reviewed will be aimed at answering one or more of the following questions:
- How can we engage in personal and collective healing from intersectional traumas that are both blatantly present and deeply historical?
- How do we prevent and intervene in oppression that shows up in our living, working, and learning environments, and what’s the responsibility of education in healing from generational and interpersonal trauma?
- What supports do we need as educators, activists, helping professionals, and community members to center healing in our work?
- How can we build our capacity to transform the conditions that make injustice possible in the first place (the call of transformative justice) and build sustainable, life-affirming alternatives instead?
- What communities of care can we build to engage in racial healing (Singh, 2019), healing justice, and transformative justice (Dixon & Piepzna-Samarasinha, 2020) in our communities and with our students?
We would like to provide developmental feedback on all proposals whether accepted or rejected. Submitters whose proposals are rejected for this conference may be able to use feedback for submission elsewhere.
Please email the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion if you have any questions.