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We encourage you to register for the virtual CU Social Justice Summit on Jan. 31. The Summit agenda features sessions from 8:30 to 5:00 pm on topics such as anti-racist and trauma-informed pedagogy, elevating communities of color in institutional decision-making,  and CU’s efforts to create and sustain more inclusive, accessible, and just campuses.  

The keynote speaker,, is a scholar, educator, and author of the book We Want to Do More than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom. In this book, Love writes “Abolitionist teaching is the practice of working in solidarity with communities of color while drawing on the imagination, creativity, refusal, (re)membering, visionary thinking, healing, rebellious spirit, boldness, determination, and subversiveness of abolitionists to eradicate injustice in and outside of schools”. A core concept in the book is mattering, an element of abolitionist work and teaching, with Love writing “we who are dark want to matter and live, not just to survive but to thrive”. Readers will learn about mattering being rooted in people seeing others for their humanity.

For more information on abolitionist teaching, we recommend listening to Dr. Love’s talk at the Social Justice Summit, reading her book, or reviewing by Sarah Ropp drawn from We Want to Do More than Survive. We also encourage folks to look at resources from the, co-founded by Dr. Love with a mission to develop and support educators to fight injustice within their schools and communities.