VIRTUAL: Tuesday April 21st, 11am-1pm PT

10 years ago a conversation between Dr. Dave Stovall and I on Hard Knock Radio with Davey D led to the creation of Educating the Black Child. Years later, before the Pandemic we hosted Dr. Stovall for a live conversation at the Women's Building in San Francisco with over 100 youth development professionals. This time we get to talk about the current challenges public schools and marginalized communities are facing, especially as it relates to housing and education. We will speak in depth about his latest book "Engineered Conflict: Structural Violence and the Future of Black Life in Chicago" and relate it to the history and current challenges we face in the Bay Area.

David Stovall, Ph.D. is a professor in the departments of Black Studies and Criminology, Law & Justice at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). His scholarship investigates three areas 1) Critical Race Theory, 2) the relationship between housing and education, and 3) the intersection of race, place and school. In the attempt to bring theory to action, he works with community organizations and schools to address issues of equity, justice and abolishing the school/prison nexus. His work led him to become a member of the design team for the Greater Lawndale/Little Village School for Social Justice (SOJO), which opened in the Fall of 2005. Furthering his work with communities, students, and teachers, his work manifests itself in his involvement with the Peoples Education Movement, a collection of classroom teachers, community members, students and university professors in Chicago, Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area who engage in collaborative community projects centered in creating relevant curriculum. In addition to his duties and responsibilities as a professor at UIC, he also served as a volunteer social studies teacher at the Greater Lawndale/Little Village School for Social Justice from 2005-2018.

Dave has written over 13 books of research on these subjects including "Are We Ready for School Abolition: Thoughts and Practices of a Radical Imaginary in Education" among others.