RiseUp: Honoring the Past While Shaping the Future (September 7-9, 2022)
Rise Up is centered on the theme of honoring our past while shaping the future. First, and foremost, we hope formerly incarcerated scholars continue to use this forum to advance their liberation from spaces “solely developed” by and for people with no lived experience and expertise. While we welcome all stakeholders who believe in collective liberation, we seek ideas and experiences from directly impacted people.
Our work calls attention to past giants who’ve fostered thought and action that have helped our people begin rising from our internal and external constraints as well exploring and offering ideas and plans for accelerating this liberation. As an education-centered conference, we’re especially interested in the transformation of prison-based and post-prison education as well as transformation that can occur through them.
We particularly value ideas and plans that center our assets, expertise, and potential rather than our deficits and how to correct them. Our lived and scholarly expertise allows us to think in ways that are fundamentally different from the thinking of traditional experts. This, combined with our unique perspectives and ways of thinking, provide the potential for innovation. We believe your ideas this will not only serve our liberation but that of the education field.
Our work calls attention to past giants who’ve fostered thought and action that have helped our people begin rising from our internal and external constraints as well exploring and offering ideas and plans for accelerating this liberation. As an education-centered conference, we’re especially interested in the transformation of prison-based and post-prison education as well as transformation that can occur through them.
We particularly value ideas and plans that center our assets, expertise, and potential rather than our deficits and how to correct them. Our lived and scholarly expertise allows us to think in ways that are fundamentally different from the thinking of traditional experts. This, combined with our unique perspectives and ways of thinking, provide the potential for innovation. We believe your ideas this will not only serve our liberation but that of the education field.