Winter-Spring Speaking Schedule for Feminist Teacher, Ileana Jiménez
I had the honor of being a part of the opening plenary at this year’s Scholar & Feminist Conference hosted by the Barnard Center for Research on Women (photo credit: Sarah Rodriguez).
I’m excited to announce my speaking schedule for the remainder of the winter, spring, and early summer of 2015 (jump to the end for a full list). Last year’s line-up was particularly invigorating, with talks and panels everywhere from schools in India to universities in the UK. I was especially honored to be the keynote at various conferences last year, including Bowling Green State University’s Generation Justice Conference in Ohio and the National Sex Education Conference in New Jersey.
This year started out just as promising and just as national and global in reach. January included a Skype session with teachers in Iceland that was organized byAuður Magndís Auðardóttir, who works on initiatives on education and youth in Reykjavik. Auðardóttir said that my session on teaching feminism and intersectionality in K-12 classrooms “was inventful in finding ways to [make] the subject both personal and professional – which is so very important. Even [though] we were working over Skype, she managed to get everyone involved in sharing their thoughts and reflecting on their own situation in regards to feminism and equality. Her take on intersectionality was also very helpful for educators.”
Last month, I was also invited by Tracy Ainsworth, Director of the Brace Center for Gender Studies at Philips Academy Andover, to deliver a three-hour workshop for faculty on using an intersectional lens in curriculum design. Following this workshop, I also led a two-hour session for students on how to generate youth-led feminist activism and multi-issue organizing across student groups.
One teacher said about the curriculum workshop:
“Great resources about the teaching of feminism and intersectionality — one of them (the Audre Lorde piece) I used that same day in a class! Inspiration from Ileana! Sometimes it’s just good to know that there are people like her out there. It’s a worthwhile ideal to orient myself toward. Practical advice about assessments as well. I created a new assignment based in large measure upon the sample assessment she gave us.”
I was also part of several panels at the Scholar & Feminist conference hosted by the Barnard Center for Research on Women in February. BCRW invited me to curate a series of panels on teaching feminism at the high school level and I was thrilled to bring Winter-Spring Speaking Schedule for Feminist Teacher, Ileana Jiménez « Feminist Teacher:
