Urban Educator Speaker Series: Toward an Educational Otherwise

Django Paris is the inaugural James A. and Cherry A. Banks Professor of Multicultural Education and director of the Banks Center for Educational Justice  in the College of Education at the University of Washington on Coast Salish homelands. ?

His teaching and research focus on centering and sustaining Indigenous, Black, Latinx, Asian and Pacific Islander youth and communities in the context of ongoing resurgence, decolonization, liberation, abolition, and justice movements in and beyond schools. ?

Paris’s most recent collaborative books are Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies: Teaching and Learning for Justice in a Changing World and Education in Movement Spaces: Standing Rock to Chicago Freedom Square. He is also the editor of the new Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies series with Teachers College Press.