A Call to Non-Black Latinx : Addressing Anti Blackness in Communidad

10:30am-12pm

Presenter: Jazmin Pichardo

Session Type: Workshop

Topic: Identities and intersectionality

Description

The purpose of this session is for self-identified Latinx professionals to engage in intragroup dialogue on anti-Blackness in and outside the Latinx community. Socialization within education demands that Latinx folx, and other marginalized groups, assimilate to white institutional culture and engage in anti-Black ideology. This session aims to unpack and explore how Latinx professionals, educators, and organizers (un)knowingly are complicit in perpetuating anti-Blackness and how we can use our social and political capital to resist complicity.

Through practice of intragroup dialogue and caucuses reflections we intend to create a brave space to engage in honest conversation on the importance for non-Black Latinx to challenge whiteness, respectability politics, and anti-Blackness in our community through a critical healing space. It is important to explore the layers of our Latinidad, while being critical of the ways we can reinforce anti-Blackness and white supremacy in our actions as educators and leaders.

Facilitators

Jazmin Pichardo

Assistant Director of Diversity Training & Education/Doctoral Student

University of Maryland, College Park

pichardo@umd.edu

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Jazmin is a doctoral student in the Higher Education Policy program at the University of Maryland, where her research interests focus on critical dialogic pedagogy, anti-oppression classroom practices, and the racialization of AfroLatinx doing equity work in higher education. As the Assistant Director of Diversity Training she provides expertise and support to the campus community in reaching its equity and inclusion goals through training, consultations, educational and developmental opportunities for students, faculty, and staff. She also provides everyday leadership for The Words of Engagement Intergroup Dialogue Program (WEIDP).

Jazmin is passionate about expanding the reach of intergroup dialogue practices and has consulted with national and international organizations in launching their own dialogue initiatives. Lastly, Jazmin co- facilitates the FB group Non-Black Latinx in Higher Ed: Addressing Anti Blackness in Communidad.

Jazmin has her MA in Higher Education from the University of Maryland and a BA in English from Vassar College.

Luz Burgos-Lopez

Assistant Dean of Students/Doctoral Student; University of Connecticut-Storrs,

luz.burgos_lopez@uconn.edu

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Luz is a third year doctoral student in the Neag School of Education, at the University of Connecticut-Storrs Luz research explores anti-Black ideology in existing research pedagogy on the Latinx students in higher education and the role racial classifications in education in scholarship production and policy implantation in education.

Luz is also a co-founder of Colectivo Bambula , a coalition of anti-racists Eduvists cultivating Puerto Rican liberation politics, artistry and scholarship with the intent to re-imagine and honor ancestral knowledge and work towards the decolonization of the past, present and future. In addition, Luz founded the FB Group Non-Black Latinx in Higher Ed: Addressing Anti Blackness in Communidad, and co-facilitates the space with Jazmin Pichardo, M.Ed.

Luz has an MS in Counselor Education from Central Connecticut State University and a BA in African American Studies from Wesleyan University.