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12:00pm CDT

Sumud in Praxis: Teaching for Solidarity from Turtle Island to Palestine

Sunday September 6, 2026 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT

Teach Palestine and the Xicanx Institute for Teaching & Organizing collaborated to provide teachers support in the face of state repression on teaching Palestine and build broader international solidarity. Our panel will share experiences from institutes that take place on the US-Mexico border, and support participants in bringing lessons to their communities.

Speakers

Anita Fernández

Dr. Anita Fernández has been a high school teacher, a professor and teacher educator for over 20 years. Her teaching, scholarship, activism and organizing have been in the areas of racial justice, decolonizing pedagogies, Chicanx/Latinx movements and Ethnic Studies. After the 2012... Read More →

Zeiad Abbas Shamrouch

Zeiad Abbas Shamrouch is a Palestinian refugee from Dheisheh Refugee Camp in the West Bank and executive Director, Middle East Children’s Alliance. He is the co-founder of the Ibdaa Cultural Center in Dheisheh. Zeiad is also a filmmaker, journalist and educator who has worked with... Read More →

Samia Shoman

Samia Shoman, Ed.D, is a Palestinian-American educator and administrator in the San Francisco Bay Area and the co-coordinator of the Middle East Children's Alliance Teach Palestine Project. She has spent the past 26 years of her career in public education promoting racial and... Read More →

Jenine Wehbeh

Jenine Wehbeh is an educator-organizer, circle-keeper, and former Middle School Social Studies teacher and union delegate, with extensive experience in Critical Ethnic Studies and K-12 education, and co-coordinator, Teach Palestine Project of the Middle East Children’s Alliance... Read More →

Sunday September 6, 2026 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT
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Education Justice

Socialism 2026

12:00pm CDT

Anita Fernández

Zeiad Abbas Shamrouch

Samia Shoman

Jenine Wehbeh

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