ICARE for Social Justice
Summer Summit Conference 2025 (#ICARE4Justice)
July 8th-16th · São Paulo, Brazil
The Intersectional and Comparative Advancement of Racial Equity for Social Justice
The purpose of the Global Summer Summit is to bring together a group of transnational critical scholar-practitioners to analyze, assess and design important considerations for establishing a global strategy and framework for advancing equity for racially and ethnically minoritized communities in education research, praxis and policy. Participants in the summit will have the opportunity to share best practices with each other as they present their diversity and inclusion research related to the promotion of access and equity for racially and ethnically minoritized communities in higher education. Participants will also have the opportunity to cultivate global frameworks centered on racial equity.
The overall plan is for this summit to result in several conference deliverables to disseminate the global framework cultivated including a podcast series, a white paper outlining the framework, a transnational grant, symposia panels, and a special research journal issue. The Intersectional and Comparative Advancement of Racial Equity for Social Justice is a program designed to advance graduate students, faculty, policy makers and community organizers interested in global issues related to racial equity, intersectionality, social justice, decoloniality and anti-colonialism.
July 8 – Arrival in São Paulo
| TIME | DESCRIPTION |
| Evening: | Informal Session Situating Ourselves in Brazil |
July 9 – Day 1: Closed Session – Self-Care as Resistance: Radical Healing while Navigating Global Fascism
| TIME | DESCRIPTION |
| 9:00 am | Session 1 – Introductions and Reflections in Teams |
| 10:00 am | Session 2 – Solidarity with Justice Uprisings: Challenges & Opportunities |
| 11:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:45 am | Session 3 |
| 1:00 pm | Lunch |
| 2:00 pm | Session 4 – Community-Engaged Excursion |
| 4:00 pm | Session 5 – Self-Care Engagement |
| 6:00 pm | Breaking Bread |
July 10 – Day 2: Participation in the Advanced School University of Sao Paulo
| TIME | DESCRIPTION |
| Morning | Site Visit: The University in Downtown São Paulo: sites of memory, Law School, Casa de Yaya, FAU Maranhão Architecture School, Maria Antonia Building
Lunch |
| Afternoon | Maria Antonia, a site of student’s organization and fighting |
July 11 – Day 3: Participation in Advanced School University of Sao Paulo
| TIME | DESCRIPTION |
| Morning | Just the ICARE Fellows (closed)
Lunch |
| Afternoon | Discussion and Presentation of Advanced School Student Papers |
July 12 – Day 4: Closed Session – University of Sao Paulo
| TIME | DESCRIPTION |
| Cultural and Community Engaged Emersion Program |
July 13 – Day 5: Closed Session – University of Sao Paulo Visioning the Future of ICARE
| TIME | DESCRIPTION |
| 10:00 am | Session 2 – Future Search for Visioning the Future and Sustainability of ICARE |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:15 pm | Session 3 – Preparation Time for Future Search Planning |
| 2:00 pm | Session 4 – Future Search Planning and Debrief |
| 5:00pm | Travel to Campinas |
| 7:30 pm | Breaking Bread |
July 14 – Day 6: Open Session – National Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM)
| TIME | DESCRIPTION |
| 9:00 am | Session 1 – Introduction/ Re introduction to ICARE4Justice |
| 10:00 am | Session 2 – Decolonizing Scientific Research and Knowledge |
| 11:30 am | Session 3 – Advancing Racial Equity in STEM Education and Research |
| 12:45 pm | Lunch |
| 2:00 pm | Session 4 – Anti-Blackness in Higher Education Research and Praxis |
| 3:30 pm | Session 5 - Training the Next Generation of Anti-Racist Scholars and Researchers |
| 7:00 pm | Breaking Bread |
July 15 – Day 7: Open Session – University of Campinas (UNICAMP)
| TIME | DESCRIPTION |
| 9:00-9:45 am | Session 1 – Welcome and Introductory Reflections: UNICAMP as a research-oriented public university supporting racial and social justice in Brazil |
| 9:45-10:30 am | Session 2 – Selection for Undergrad and Graduate level: UNICAMP inclusion programs and their effect on demography of the campus |
| 10:30-11:15 am | Support, engagement and academic success for racial and social minorities |
| 11:15-11:30 am | Break |
| 11:30-12:00 pm | Session 4 - The role of collectives and other activities on engagement and academic success |
| 12:00 pm | Lunch at Casa do Professor Visitante |
| 2:00-3:15 pm | Session 5 – Youth and Grassroots Movements for Racial Justice in the Global South |
| 3:15-3:45 pm | Break |
| 3:45-4:30 pm | Advancing an ICARE4Justice Framework: Implications and considerations for years ahead. |
July 16 – Day 8: Advisory Board Meeting
| TIME | DESCRIPTION |
| ICARE Fellows |