2023 NASPA Racial Equity and Social Change Conference

2023 NASPA Racial Equity and Social Change Conference

Washington, DC
1701907200

The NASPA Racial Equity and Social Change Conference, formerly the NASPA Multicultural Institute, provides space for thought leaders and practitioners to share ideas, strategies, and evidence-based research about advancing our collective work to create more equitable and just campuses and communities.

The new name of this conference represents a critical shift from a multicultural framework, which acknowledges and honors differences in culture, to a racial equity framework, with the goal of redressing and changing deeply racialized systems that restrict outcomes and opportunities for all groups. NASPA’s commitment to racial equity is intersectional in nature and impact, because interlocking systems of oppression operate together and exacerbate each other. Everyone benefits when racial equity is advanced, because when equity is at the center, people of all races, all of whom also hold other identities, can access the resources they need to thrive.

In shaping the inaugural Racial Equity and Social Change Conference, we are prioritizing content that centers racial equity, creates social change, and integrates an intersectional lens. In the context of coordinated attacks targeting queer and trans students, undermining programs focused on BIPOC students, restricting what is taught in and out of the classroom, and dehumanizing and threatening educators, our work toward justice must also be coordinated and collective.