Education in Times of Revolution

A 2-day virtual summit to reimagine education in the age of AI and rapid societal change.

Join us Friday, December 5-Saturday, December 6, 2025

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Why Join?

Education doesn’t stop at graduation. Standing on the edge of superintelligence and seismic societal shifts, the way we learn—and why we learn—has never mattered more. This summit invites you to:

  • Question the who, what, when, where, why of education.

  • Reimagine education as a liberatory practice for our times

  • Connect with a community of curious, lifelong learners.

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Themes We’ll Explore

  • (Un)Learning in the Age of AI: What knowledge matters in a world transformed by artificial intelligence? How can experiential practices expand our ways of learning? How can we unlearn entrenched biases and outdated mental models?

  • Lineages of Wisdom: Who holds and shapes knowledge? Exploring indigenous ways of learning and the historical forces that have defined education.

  • From Childhood to Elderhood: When does learning happen? Understanding education through developmental psychology and the need for lifelong growth.

  • The Role of Institutions: Where does education belong in times of disruption? Rethinking the function and future of schools, universities, and alternative spaces.

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Meet the Speakers

  • Dr. Butch Ware is a lifelong activist and organizer for justice, and a world-renowned UCSB history professor. Ware was the Vice Presidential nominee for the Green Party in 2024, and now is a candidate for Governor of California, promoting a vision of economic, environmental, and social justice for all Californians.

    Butch is not a career politician, but an experienced public servant. For decades Ware has managed international teams of researchers on four continents, while always working in service of local communities – organizing teach-ins, grassroots education forums, and standing on the front lines against genocide, imperialism, and racial injustice.

    Dr. Ware is on the right side of history as a progressive movement leader, supporting universal single payer healthcare, housing first, tuition free higher education, immigration justice, carceral reform, and divestment from genocide. These policies are popular with the people of California, but are blocked by a political system that prioritizes profits over people. It’s time to give working folk what we deserve – an opportunity to thrive, not just survive.

    Born in Washington, D.C., and raised in Minneapolis, Butch earned his Ph.D. in history from the University of Pennsylvania and has taught at Northwestern, the University of Michigan, and UC Santa Barbara. As a leading voice on the Black Liberation Tradition, he brings unmatched depth, integrity, and vision to the political arena. He’s not a politician playing the game. He’s a movement builder, truth-teller, and revolutionary educator stepping up to lead California with courage.

  • Dr. Negar Razavi is a political anthropologist whose research explores the intersections of state power, empire, security, foreign policy, expertise, and gender. She is currently an Associate Research Scholar at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies at Princeton University, where she is completing her first book manuscript on the role of policy experts in shaping U.S. security policies toward the Middle East — with a particular focus on Iran. Dr. Razavi also serves as a Senior Researcher at Security in Context. As a publicly engaged scholar, she works to bridge critical scholarship and policy spaces, bringing deeper context and accountability to U.S. foreign policy debates.

  • Dr. Ed Hasan, a Palestinian-American Muslim, is a pracademic, entrepreneur, author, and award-winning professor whose work bridges scholarship and practice in organization development, change management, and workplace inclusion. He is the founder and host of the Sumud Podcast, a platform inspired by the Palestinian concept of Sumud, or steadfastness. The podcast amplifies voices from marginalized communities worldwide, providing a space for reflection, connection, and action toward justice and equity.

    Dr. Ed serves as an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University, where he was honored with the Tropaia Outstanding Faculty Award for his excellence in teaching and commitment to inclusive education. In addition, he is the Founder Emeritus of Kaizen Human Capital, a consulting firm that sits at the intersection of academia and industry, delivering evidence-based solutions in organization development, human resources, and information technology to align people, process, and technology.

  • Julia Firestone, PCC, MA (she/her) is a transformational leadership coach with 15 years of experience serving purpose-driven leaders and organizations across nonprofit, corporate, and startup sectors. With a dedication to fostering connection and collaboration among changemakers, she leads monthly “Community Open House” gatherings online and hosts The Cozy Impact Pod alongside Malia Wright-Merer. Julia has worked with organizations including the Obama Foundation, Pearson, and Columbia University, combining expertise in innovation, strategic partnerships, and community building to shape collective impact and develop the next generation of impact-driven leaders. Based in Brooklyn, she holds an MA from Columbia University Teachers College.

  • Hanieh Khosroshahi is an independent design consultant, researcher, and community organizer working in pursuit of people and the planet. Born in Iran and raised in Tkaronto on Turtle Island, her life across these two worlds has shaped a deep commitment to gender equality, collective liberation, and social justice. For over a decade, she has applied the principles of human-centered design, participatory research, and systems thinking to design and scale products, services, and programs across health, gender, and climate. Hanieh is also the co-founder of Thousand&One, a feminist community that supports Women of Colour to thrive in their personal and professional lives. She holds a Master of Science in Human-Computer Interaction from the University of York in the UK.

    With over 25 years of leadership experience across education, youth development, and corporate responsibility, Bassem has held senior roles including Director of Programs at the International Youth Foundation and MENA Regional Education Manager at Intel, where he partnered with ministries of education to improve learning quality through technology. His work combines strategic policy engagement with practical program design, driving innovation that connects education to opportunity.

  • Dr. Laura Basu is an academic, writer, and strategic consultant whose work explores the intersections of media, power, and political economy. She is a Visiting Fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London and previously served as Economics Editor at openDemocracy. In 2022, she was an inaugural Rhizome Fellow at Culture Hack Labs, and she has held a Marie Curie award to study global economic crises and the role of the media. Dr. Basu serves on the advisory board for the book series Alternatives to Capitalism in the 21st Century, alongside Silvia Federici, Nancy Fraser, and Richard D. Wolff. She is currently writing a book on “Loveconomics” and publishes a Substack of the same name.

  • Radha Ruparell is the Chief Learning Officer at Teach For All Global Institute, leading global learning strategy, supporting educators and system leaders across 60+ countries to advance collective leadership for a better future. She has also authored a book on personal transformation (Brave Now), drawing on her experience developing leaders in diverse contexts.

    Teach For All is a global community of changemakers developing collective leadership to ensure all children can fulfill their potential.

  • Ronit Avni is an entrepreneur and Peabody award-winner operating at the intersection of tech, media, future of work, green jobs and social impact. She is founder and CEO of Localized, a career intelligence platform that connects emerging talent with industry experts to guide them and hands-on training in high-demand skills. The platform offers training, assessments and access to employers looking for Carbon Intelligence, Virtual Intelligence and more. The strongest global companies including Google, PayPal, Amazon, Unilever and Cisco and the world’s leading educational institutions across Africa, the Middle East and Latin America have used Localized. Localized also hosts the largest Green Talent Forum for young job seekers globally. Previously, Ronit founded and led the media organization Just Vision, which creates  documentary films, news analysis and public education campaigns. She has won dozens of media prizes including the Puma Creative Impact Award, a Peabody, and her team’s work was featured in nearly every major news outlet and viewed by tens of millions of people on TV, online.

  • Saja Amro is an architect, educator, and designer based between The Netherlands and Palestine. Her work investigates the influence of spatial design on social dynamics in education. In her practice, she disrupts traditional classroom structures, aiming to rebuild them on the principles of radical pedagogy. As a tutor at the Architecture Department of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Saja uses the classroom as a place to collaborate with her students and reimagine spaces inspired by popular education methodologies, and roots of indigenous cultures. Saja co-founded Common Ground, a collaborative artistic gastronomic project focusing on using the dining table and the kitchen as research laboratories and spaces for knowledge production and exchange.

  • Bassem Nasir is an Education Specialist at UNICEF, leading global work on secondary education and skills development. He supports governments in expanding multiple flexible learning pathways and integrating life, green, and digital skills into education systems to prepare young people for the future of work.

    With over 25 years of leadership experience across education, youth development, and corporate responsibility, Bassem has held senior roles including Director of Programs at the International Youth Foundation and MENA Regional Education Manager at Intel, where he partnered with ministries of education to improve learning quality through technology. His work combines strategic policy engagement with practical program design, driving innovation that connects education to opportunity.

  • Paul Biggar leads Tech for Palestine, a collaboration of tech projects advocating for Palestine. At its core, Tech for Palestine is an incubator to start and support projects for Palestine with mentorship, tech volunteers, marketing support, and connections to the broad Palestine advocacy community. He previously founded tech startups Darklang and CircleCI. He graduated with a PhD in Computer Science from Trinity College Dublin in 2010.

  • Dr. Mariam Durrani is Professorial Lecturer and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Peace, Human Rights, and Cultural Relations at American University. She is an interdisciplinary anthropologist whose scholarship and teaching focuses on global racialization, language, migration, education, and food studies. Based on over 20 years of writing and teaching about Islamophobia, Dr. Durrani seeks to shift how academic and public discourse reckon with the racialized impact of global wars for Muslim youth in the US and Pakistan through multi-sited ethnography and multimodal methods.