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ITEP's signature Indigenous Pedagogies Speaker Series is back for the Spring 2023 semester!

We will be kicking the semester off with a session titled "Affirming LGBTQ+2S Students in our Classrooms and Beyond: Creating Solidarity and Building Coalitions Across Communities". We will be joined by TWO guest speakers, Dr. Carol Brochin and Souksavanh Keovorabouth on February 8 from 5:30-6:30pm MT. 

Guest Speaker Biographies:

• Carol Brochin (she/her/ella) is an associate professor in Teaching, Learning, and Sociocultural Studies at the University of Arizona. Her professional and scholarly work is rooted in her experiences as a public-school teacher and literacy educator along the U.S./Mexico border. Brochin’s work is interdisciplinary, crossing and challenging disciplinary and theoretical borders while grounded in community engagement, qualitative inquiry and literacy research methods. Her teaching and research push the boundaries of what it means to do equity work, both in literacy and bilingual education. Brochin researches and writes about teacher education, LGBTQ+ and bilingual literature for youth, and crossing borders through books.
• Souksavanh T. Keovorabouth, Diné is a Ph.D. candidate at Oregon State University in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies with a minor in Queer Studies and concentration in Indigenous Urban Studies and a Ph.D. Candidate at Macquarie University in Indigenous Studies. Their concentrated area of research is on Indigenous urban experience, Two-Spirit wellbeing, Relocation Act of 1950, and Native and Queer urbanization. Souksavanh is originally from Diné (Navajo) Nation but grew up in Phoenix, Arizona, is second generation Laotian, and Queer/Trans/Two-Spirit.

We hope to see you there!