Equity Institute: Deep Dive Track

Deep Dive: track Overview and Registration

Conference fees: $475 for individual registrations | $425 for groups of five or more (see below for registration options)

The Deep Dive track features three areas of focus, each with a track leader that will guide attendees through the two days of sessions. Deep Dive attendees should register for one of the following three focus areas:

• Construction of Race with Jackie Battalora: The Construction of Race focus area will center on the history of the social construction of race and the four-tiered concept of whiteness. Guided by Jackie Battalora, attendees will work to identify the seamless reproduction of whiteness and develop tools for implementing practices that disentangle us from it. Sessions are divided into three sections: From Where We Came; Where We Are; and Where We Can Go. View the full description of this focus area. |  Individual registration | Group registration
• Tools for Educators Navigating Identity, Oppression, and Power with Natalie Thoreson: The Tools for Educators focus area will offer a grounded space to explore how systems like settler colonial capitalism shape what we believe about identity, power, and belonging. We will work with frameworks that unpack these dynamics and examine how we’ve been socialized to navigate or avoid conflict. You will gain tools to engage hard conversations with curiosity, accountability, and care. We will practice ways to move through discomfort and stay connected in moments of tension. View the full description of this focus area|Individual registration | Group registration
• Becoming an Unapologetic Advocate for Black Students with Dr. Michael Walker: The Unapologetic Advocate focus area will encompass two main topics. The first, "How We Got Here," will cover the historical contexts of the current state of education and different forms of microaggressions and how they may show up in your classroom and school community. The second, "Addressing Unconscious Bias," will cover the reality of how implicit bias/association, denial, stereotypes, assumptions, blind spots, and prejudices play in your classroom. View the full description of this focus area|  Individual registration | Group registration

Deep Dive: track Schedule 

Monday, June 16, 2025

3-6 p.m. | Registration

4-6 p.m. | Opening Session 
Diversity, Leadership & Effective Listening: A Social Justice Imperative, Dr. John Igwebuike
This seminar explores the art, skill, and practice of effective listening. Of the major verbal communication modalities--speaking, writing, reading, the receptive mode of listening is least taught, least considered, and least understood. This session asserts listening as a powerful tool, and acknowledges listening as a radical social justice tool to advance diversity, understanding, respect and individual and institutional change. Special attention is given to the notion of “listening-into-healing” and “listeners-as-healers” through the “therapeutic use of self” to foster and support individual/corporate health, self-care, and wellbeing.

6-7 p.m. | Welcome Reception in Redleaf Commons

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Tuesday, June 17, 2025

8:30-9:30 a.m. | Coffee & Tea/Continental Breakfast and Registration

9:30-10:30 a.m. | Deep Dive keynote: The Case for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging, Dr. Eddie Moore, Jr.

10:30 a.m.-12 p.m. | Deep Dive Session with your focus area leader

12-1 p.m. | Lunch

1-4 p.m. | Deep Dive Session with your focus area leader

4-8 p.m. | Book signing, Keynote and Dinner with Dr. Bettina Love 

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Wednesday, June 18, 2025

8-9 a.m.  | Coffee & Tea Continental Breakfast 

9:00 a.m.-12 p.m.  | Deep Dive Session with your focus area leader 

12-1 p.m. | Lunch

1-2 p.m. | "Good Trouble" mixed groups, or planning teams with focus area leader facilitating

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