51萝莉

Wendy Whitmore MS LMFT

The workshop explores four foundational elements: Engagement, Assessment, Awareness, and Reflection, all which support healthy village-building. Participants will learn how trauma, codependency and self-awareness impact relationships and how to build emotionally supportive networks.

De'Von Truvel
Founder and Director of Curriculum Development

Sinclair Walker
Director of Operations

An interactive session where participants learn about Tulsa鈥檚 Black Wall Street and engage with its legacy through gameplay. The board game teaches financial literacy and entrepreneurship, empowering Black and Brown students through historical context and strategic play.

Richard May
Adjunct Professor Communication Studies, A2MEND Faculty Coordinator

This session reframes AI as a tool for equity. Participants will learn to critique AI-generated content, identify cultural gaps, and build counter-narratives rooted in lived experience. The workshop includes assignment design strategies and equity-centered integration techniques.

Robert Ortiz Archila
Adjunct Faculty

This presentation explores how partnerships between schools, community organizations, and higher education can dismantle barriers and foster college access. Attendees will learn trauma-informed, equity-centered strategies to support marginalized students.

Luis Fernandez
Assistant Professor of History

Mario Varo, Hassan Abdul-Qawi, Esmeralda Esparza Ledezma, Vernon Rodarte, Andres Garcia

51萝莉 Alumni and Current Student

A student-centered panel highlighting how mentorship and advising support academic success. Panelists share personal journeys and discuss how equitable support systems helped them thrive.

Adam Bianchessi
Teacher on Assignment

Liane Hypolite, Dayna Mitchell, Alexia Lee, Jos茅 Aguilar-Hern谩ndez
Professors, Ethnic Studies Teacher, and Doctoral Program Co-Director

This session shares research from Cal Poly Pomona鈥檚 Educational Leadership program on implementing AB 101, a bill mandating one semester of ethnic studies to graduate high school. Participants will explore strategies for advancing ethnic studies and building liberatory educational experiences.

Kenneth Lindleaf
Faculty/Instructional Specialist

Pam Schnelbach, Hector Martinez, Matthew Caddell, Alicia Gutierrez
Instructional Specialists, Counselors, and Student Leaders

A panel of justice-impacted students and faculty share insights and strategies for supporting educational success. Attendees will receive a toolkit for culturally-relevant learning and institutional support.

Timothy Brown
Hypnotherapist

Kathryn Urell
College Counselor, MSW

This hands-on workshop explores self-care as a tool for resilience. Participants will engage in mindfulness, storytelling, and resource mapping to support mental health and academic success.

Felicia Douglas
Guidance Counselor

A session for educators on fostering autonomy and belonging in classrooms. Grounded in self-determination theory, it offers strategies for inclusive practices, motivation and student engagement.

Tia Delaney-Stewart, MSN
Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Arlene Bruins, MSG
Program Manager 鈥� Inland Empire

This workshop explores how music supports memory and emotional connection in dementia care. Participants will learn culturally relevant strategies and reflect on songs that support caregiving.

Alan Lechusza Aquallo
Adjunct Professor, Ethnic Studies

This presentation uses hip hop as a pedagogical tool to explore identity, community building, and resistance. Students will learn how to challenge racial barriers through conscious cultural expression.

Norma Leon
Professor, Psychology and Social Sciences

This presentation focuses on centering your 鈥渢ime management鈥� around what is most important in your life.

Rufus Thompson
Retired Educator and Founder/CEO The Pocket Advocate, LLC

Learn how different experiences and cultural identities play a role in building understanding and helping people thrive.

Monette Hamilton
Community Member

Black and Brown youth in the Inland Empire can channel leadership, entrepreneurship and social impact through the Youth Leader Entrepreneur & Philanthropy model. Learn how in this interactive workshop.

De'Von Truvel
Founder and Director of Curriculum Development

An interactive session where participants learn about Tulsa鈥檚 Black Wall Street and engage with its legacy through gameplay. The board game teaches financial literacy and entrepreneurship, empowering Black and Brown students through historical context and strategic play.

Miriam Somera
English and ESL Adjunct Instructor

This presentation defines hegemony, identity, monolingualism, multilingualism and race through 鈥渟pacial entitlement.鈥�

Denise Padilla
Director of Social Wellness and Behavioral Support

Explore your identity, emotions and lived experiences through collage-making, set to a curated playlist of empowering Black and Brown artists.

Alan Lechusza Aquallo
Adjunct Professor, Ethnic Studies

This presentation uses hip hop as a pedagogical tool to explore identity, community building, and resistance. Students will learn how to challenge racial barriers through conscious cultural expression.

• VIP seating at all sessions and 20 conference tickets
• Logo on all conference materials
• Opportunity to introduce conference speaker
• Social media and print advertising highlight
• Framed Black and Brown Minds and Mattering poster signed by speakers

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• Logo on conference materials
• Social media and print advertising highlight
• Highlighted near a community art display
• Framed Black and Brown Minds and Mattering poster signed by speakers

• Logo on conference program
• Social media advertising highlight
• Highlighted during conference workshop
• Framed Black and Brown Minds and Mattering poster signed by speakers

• Logo on conference program
• Social media advertising highlight
• Framed Black and Brown Minds and Mattering poster signed by speakers

The conference is designed for educators, high school and college students, as well as community members.

Yes.

The link to register is above this page while space permits. 

Yes, every registered attendee will be served lunch.

The day begins with an opening keynote address followed by the first of two breakout sessions. Then there is lunch and another breakout session. The day concludes with a closing presentation.

Please contact Albert Rodriguez at albert.rodriguez@chaffey.edu