Every year, Our Local History brings together hundreds of educators and community members for a free day of professional development and resource sharing related to culturally responsive education, antiracism, local history and more.
The conference is free to attend and takes place online. Registration will open in early January. To stay up-to-date, sign up below to receive our quarterly e-newsletter.
2027 Antiracist Education Conference keynote speaker
Eve L. Ewing is a former classroom teacher turned best-selling author, historian, poet, artist and organizer who has written in a variety of literary formats – history, poetry, children’s literature, even comic books – about the intersection of race, education and opportunity in America.
Her most recent book is Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism. She is also the author of Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side, as well as the poetry collection 1919 and the children’s book Maya and the Robot. She has also written several projects for Marvel Comics, most notably Ironheart, Black Panther and multiple X-Men titles.
Eve is a graduate of Chicago Public Schools and a former teacher in the district. She is currently an associate professor in the Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity at the University of Chicago, at the University of Chicago, where she teaches courses on race, education, and Afrofuturism, and directs the Beyond Schools Lab and the Colloquium on Race, Education, and Social Transformation.
For the past six years, our Rochester-area schools of education have supported the Antiracist Education Conference.