June 3, 2027 - June 5, 2027

12 years after Ladson-Billings and Tate (1995) released their seminal publication introducing Critical Race Theory to the field of education, Drs. Thea Berry, Marvin Lynn, and David Stovall (with contributions from Ann Aviles, Denise Taliaferro Baszile, and Tara Yosso) hosted the first convening for what would become Critical Race Studies in Education Association (CRSEA). It was their intent to “put folks in the same room who were using CRT in their research and praxis to figure out how to support each other” (Stovall, personal communication, 2026). Over the past two decades, CRSEA has remained a vital site for generating critical analyses of racism in education while also nurturing the relationships, coalitions, and forms of collective (re)actions necessary to advance educational justice.

20 years after the first CRSEA conference in Chicago, we will gather June 3-5, 2027, at the University of San Francisco, to both remember our roots and reimagine the next 20 years of critical race studies in the field of education. The 2027 theme, 20 years young: Critical Race Praxis in Perpetuity, is an invitation for researchers, community organizers, educators, and students to share, to connect, and to construct the coalitions necessary to build the sorts of worlds we collectively imagine together. The conference is also a space for us to move against what Yamamoto (1997) referred to as the disjunctures and disassociations that exist between theorizations of race and the practice of advancing racial justice. As such, this year’s conference invites proposals for presentations, workshops, and assemblies that build our critical race conceptualizations and that provide examples and models of work taking place through Critical Race Theory to advance justice in education.