LAMC Hosts 19th Annual Conference for Association of Raza Educators

Educators from across California attended the 19th Annual Association of Raza Educators (ARE) Statewide Conference – titled “Land, River, Sea: Ethnic Studies to be Free” – at Los Angeles Mission College in Sylmar. 

The conference presented workshops, speakers and a panel discussion addressing a range of challenges facing educators – which include “attacks on Ethnic Studies, targeting of immigrant communities, mass deportations, repression and depression of free speech [and] students being arrested and detained for their campus activism on Palestine,” explained keynote speaker Dr. Samia Shoman, a former social studies teacher, current school administrator and a leadership team member for a California coalition for Liberated Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum.

“Almost all of the work that I’m blessed to wake up to do every day is under attack, from various angles and people, including the federal and state government,” she said, noting it’s “happening everywhere in our state,” including targeting Ethnic Studies. “But that doesn’t mean we stop.”

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