22nd Annual Cambio de Colores
Sparking Change, Integration, and Deep Connections
June 5 - 7, 2024
Join Us in Kansas City!
Mark your calendar for June 5-7! Cambio de Colores is back, and it is a conference you don’t want to miss. This professional development opportunity is a great time to share and learn about research and promising practices on the integration of Latines/Hispanics and immigrants in new destinations.
The theme for 2024 — Sparking Change, Integration, and Deep Connections — renews our call to action and commitment to learn alongside leaders and experts from our changing communities. Come join us!
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Register by May 5, 2024 for Early Bird rate.
Fees:
Full Conference
- $285 early bird; extended through May 5, 2024
- $340 regular; through May 31, 2024
- $385 late registration; beginning May 31, 2024
- $150 Student Registration
**Registration covers Wednesday light reception, Thursday breakfast and lunch and Friday breakfast, and attendance at all workshops, presentations, and performances.
One Day Registration
- $150; Thursday, June 6, 2024
Site Visits
- $45 early bird registration; through April 26, 2024
- $55 late registration; beginning April 26, 2024
Montserrat Garibay
Montserrat Garibay is the Acting Assistant Deputy Secretary and Director for the Office of English Language Acquisition and Senior Advisor for Labor Relations, Office of Secretary, U.S. Department of Education. Previously she was the secretary-treasurer of the Texas American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) and served as vice president for Certified Employees with Education Austin. Ms. Garibay was a bilingual pre-kindergarten teacher for eight years and a National Board-Certified Teacher. She is a graduate of the National Labor Leadership Initiative with the Worker Institute at Cornell University and is a University of Texas-Austin graduate with a master’s degree in Education. An activist on education and immigration issues, Garibay came to the U.S. from Mexico City as an undocumented immigrant and became a citizen 20 years later. She has been instrumental in promoting opportunities for all students, including those from immigrant families.
Meet the Keynotes
Migrante Unidos
Migrantes Unidos is a mutual support group of over 100 asylum seekers from Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean who have harnessed their time together toward collective action against the use of ankle monitors and other forms of detention in immigration enforcement. This group is centered among a supportive team of service providers, researchers, and advocates who are committed to positioning asylum seekers as critical thinkers and leaders who have produced three main forms of practical knowledge: 1) the physical and mental toll of ankle monitors and other immigration surveillance tactics that are inappropriately referred to as “Alternatives to Detention;” 2) collective strategies to prevent harm on oneself and others; and, 3) core values and priorities in creating reciprocal partnerships between academics and non-academics to pursue justice. These forms of knowledge embedded in practice and rooted in action have advanced current public understanding of race, justice, and dignity in the social sciences and humanities as well as public policy and religious practice.
Amalia Daché
Dr. Amalia Daché’s groundbreaking work includes a geographic mixed-method study, “Mapping Public Housing and Urban Higher Education Accessibility and Enrollment in Philadelphia”. In this primarily ethnographic study she collaborated with a North Philadelphia Affordable Housing community that is both predominantly Puerto Rican and Afro-Latino to learn of their educational trajectories navigating the local landscape of Philadelphia. Nationally, she co-leads research on the history of slavery on U.S. college campuses and universities’ engagement in reparations, showcased through the Project SHARPE website. Internationally, her exploration of Cuban educational histories, the 1990s “balseros,” and academic freedom violations at Cuban universities paints a vivid picture of her commitment to global perspectives.
Dr. Trish Morita-Mullaney
Dr. Trish Morita-Mullaney is an Associate Professor at Purdue and holds a courtesy appointment in Asian American Studies program. Her research focuses on the intersections between language learning, gender, and race and how this informs the identity acts of educators of multilingual communities. Guided by critical and feminist thought, she examines how these overlapping identities inform the logics of educational decision making for multilingual families. She has studied the Lau case and how it was developed, experienced, and implemented by the Chinese American community of San Francisco, representing the original history and voice of Lau. She has a forthcoming book on the Chinese perspective of Lau with Multilingual Matters in August 2024.