The CSHE and the BSIEL presents The Power and Potentiality of Abolitionist Tech, part of the 2024-2025 Black Study in Education Lab Webinar Series.
In this talk, Dr. Chezare A. Warren explores how mourning, possibility, and Black education intersect amid the enduring racialized conditions of the United States. He argues that it is not Blackness itself, but the sociopolitical landscape—rooted in plunder and extraction—that renders Black life precarious and constrains Black futures. Positioning mourning as both a political and pedagogical act, Dr. Warren calls attention to the enduring vulnerability Black students face in formal education. At the same time, he highlights the imagination, resilience, and collective memory that have sustained Black communities across generations. He elevates art as a vital praxis for naming and intervening in Black suffering, and calls for a deeper analysis of how Blackness is socially and politically constructed. In doing so, he opens space for reimagining Black education as a site of radical possibility.
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Featured Speaker
Dr. Chezare A. Warren
Chezare A. Warren, PhD is a scholar of race and intersectional justice whose research interests center on understanding the conditions that enable Black students’ education success and wellbeing. A former secondary math teacher and school administrator from Chicago, Dr. Warren is principal investigator of THE POSSIBILITIES PROJECT, an “arts-informed knowledge hub” that generates original research in Black Education. A 2024 TED Speaker, he has held visiting faculty appointments at Stanford University, New York University, and University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Warren is recipient of numerous national recognitions including two early career awards from the American Educational Research Association. He was a 2019 National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine/Ford Postdoctoral Fellow, and in 2025, will be the inaugural visiting scholar of the Edmund W. Gordon Institute for Advanced Study at Teachers College, Columbia University. Warren is author of the award-winning Urban Preparation: Young Black Men Moving from Chicago’s South Side to Success in Higher Education (Harvard Education Press, 2017) and Centering Possibility in Black Education (Teachers College Press, 2021). He has published in top peer-reviewed journals including Educational Researcher, Journal of Teacher Education, and Urban Education, and is a widely sought after teacher, clinician, and speaker. For more information, visit www.chezarewarren.com
