Dr. Django Paris & Dr. Chelsea Craig (Sqətalkw)
2025 Keynote Presenters
Becoming Relatives in Education
Huyadadčəł (our way), Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies & an Educational Otherwise
In this interactive keynote we learn alongside the Tulalip wisdom of Huyadadčəł (our way) and beautiful work in the Tulalip community that centers and sustains Coast Salish lifeways across curriculum and pedagogy. Building from that work as an enactment of Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies (CSPs), we spend time tracing the contours of CSPs in Black, Indigenous, Latine, Asian, and Pacific Islander communities in the context of the intersecting crises of climate catastrophe, emboldened white supremacy, and ongoing genocides. This leads us to dreaming together about an educational otherwise beyond racial settler capitalist logics of scarcity, extraction, and suffering: An education where our liberation is necessarily tied, where we become relatives in education.
Dr. Django Paris is the inaugural James A. and Cherry A. Banks Chair of Multicultural Education and director of the Banks Center for Educational Justice in the College of Education at the University of Washington on Coast Salish homelands. His teaching and research focus on centering and sustaining Indigenous, Black, Latinx, Asian and Pacific Islander youth and communities in the context of ongoing resurgence, decolonization, liberation, and justice movements in and beyond schools. Paris is author of Language across Difference: Ethnicity, Communication, and Youth Identities in Changing Urban Schools (2011), and co-editor of Humanizing Research: Decolonizing Qualitative Inquiry with Youth and Communities (2014), Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies: Teaching and Learning for Justice in a Changing World (2017), and Education in Movement Spaces: Standing Rock to Chicago Freedom Square (2020). He is also the editor of the Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies series with Teachers College Press and hosts the conversation series An Educational Otherwise. He has published in many academic journals, including the Harvard Educational Review and Educational Researcher.
Dr. Chelsea Craig (Sqətalkw) is a member of the Tulalip Tribes and has spent her life learning from her elders, ancestors and community. She is a graduate of the University of Washington, earning her Education Doctorate in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies through the Leadership for Learning Program. Chelsea has been serving her community as an educator for 30 years. Chelsea is currently the Assistant Principal at Quil Ceda Tulalip Elementary and is committed to interrupting systems that do not work for her community and centering Indigenous knowledge that leads to healing and justice for her people.
