Hamline University Summer Literacy Institute 2022
Stories Matter: Listen, Believe, and Learn
July 11–14, 2022
The purpose of our Institute is to center social justice and equity in literacy education. By critically examining our own biases and the systems in which we live and work, we can act to disrupt injustice. As participants, presenters, and organizers of the Institute, we come together as a community of learners to inspire one another, to learn, and to take action.
Aligning our work with Hamline University’s vision for equity and inclusive excellence, we are committed to creating an inclusive community of literacy educators.
Past Summer Literacy Institute Keynote Speakers
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Dr. Bettina L. Love she/her/hers is an award-winning author and the Athletic Association Endowed Professor at the University of Georgia. She is one of the field’s most esteemed educational researchers. Her writing, research, teaching, and activism meet at the intersection of race, education, abolition, and Black joy. Dr. Love is concerned with how educators working with parents and communities can build communal, civically engaged schools rooted in Abolitionist Teaching with the goal of intersectional social justice for equitable classrooms that love and affirm Black and Brown children.
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Aeriale N. Johnson she/her/we, is a Reggio-inspired, abolitionist educator. She taught public school for twenty-three years in Florida, Alaska, and California. In 2021, she transitioned from being a classroom teacher to serving as a staff developer for Teachers College Reading and Writing Project. Aeriale strives to help teachers build a democratic classroom where all adults (educators and families) believe in children, allow children to bring the fullness of their humanity into the space, and deliberately relinquish their power to the children.
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Antero Garcia he/him/his is an Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University. He studies how technology and gaming shape youth learning, literacy practices, and civic identities. Based on his research, Garcia co-designed the Critical Design and Gaming School--a public high school in South Central Los Angeles. Antero’s research has appeared in multiple journals. His recent books include Everyday Advocacy: Teachers who Change the Literacy Narrative, Good Reception: Teens, Teachers, and Mobile Media in a Los Angeles High School, and Compose Our World: Project-Based Learning in Secondary English Language Arts.
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Kao Kalia Yang she/her/hers is an award-winning Hmong-American writer. She is the author of the memoirs The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir, The Song Poet, and Somewhere in the Unknown World. Yang is also the author of the children’s books, A Map Into the World, The Shared Room, The Most Beautiful Thing and Yang Warriors.
She co-edited the ground-breaking collection What God is Honored Here?: Writings on Miscarriage and Infant Loss By and For Indigenous Women and Women of Color. Yang’s work has been recognized by the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Chautauqua Prize, the PEN USA literary awards, and the Dayton’s Literary Peace Prize. Her children’s books have been recognized as Notable Books by the American Library Association, the Zolotow Honor, as Kirkus Best Books of the Year, and won a Heartland Bookseller’s Award. Yang is the recipient of four Minnesota Book Awards and the Ordway Center’s Sally Award for Social Impact.