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SENIA Virtual Conference 2023 |
Picture Description: Jason Arday is a black man with facial hair and long braided hair falling over his shoulders. He is wearing a blue jumper and black pants. He is sitting on a wooden bench, bent forward with his elbows on his legs and hands folded together. facing the camera, and smiling. He is in a courtyard with a stone background and plants around. |
Professor Jason Arday is a social commentator, presenter, and public speaker. He is currently the Professorial Chair of Education (Sociology of Education) at the University of Cambridge. He has previously held Professorial posts at the University of Glasgow and the University of Durham.
At three years old Jason was diagnosed with global development delay and autism spectrum disorder. He did not speak until he was eleven and could not read or write until he was eighteen years old. He funded his PhD by working part-time in Sainsbury’s and Boots whilst working full-time as a University Lecturer. His Professorial appointment in July 2021 at the University of Glasgow made him one of the youngest professors in the UK. In March 2023, he became the youngest-ever Black academic to hold a Professorship at Cambridge and one of the youngest academics ever to receive the title of Professor in Oxbridge’s history.
Jason is passionate about tailoring, guitar music and how music as a whole intersects with social justice, class and race. Outside of academia, Jason has been a prolific fundraiser and has raised over £5 million pounds for 80 national charities over an 18 year period, winning numerous prodigious fundraising awards. His fundraising achievements include running 30 marathons!
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Picture Description: Emily Meadows (she/her) is a white woman who has short, straight brown hair tucked behind her ears. She is wearing a camel colored jacket over a white shirt. She is standing in a brick alley and facing the camera. A green plant hangs in the top left corner.
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Dr. Emily Meadows (she/her) is an LGBTQ+ consultant specialized in international schools. In addition to her doctoral degree, Emily holds master’s degrees in both Sexual Health and Counseling, and has worked as an international school counselor for over a decade. She researches, publishes, and trains school communities on equitable policy and practice, while also teaching for the LGBT Health Policy & Practice graduate program at George Washington University. Having spent more than half of her life in international schools, Emily specializes in culturally-relevant solutions to promote equity and belonging worldwide.
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Emily Ladau is a passionate disability rights activist, writer, storyteller, and digital communications consultant whose career began at the age of 10, when she appeared on several episodes of Sesame Street to educate children about her life with a physical disability. Her writing has been published in outlets including The New York Times, CNN, Vice, and HuffPost and her first book, Demystifying Disability, was published by Ten Speed Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House, in September 2021. Emily has spoken before numerous audiences, from the U.S. Department of Education to the United Nations. Central to all of Emily’s work is harnessing the power of storytelling to engage people in learning about disability.
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Photo credit: Rick Guidotti, Positive Exposure
Picture Description: Emily Ladau is a white woman who is wearing glasses and has curly brown hair pulled back halfway, with the rest framing her face. She is wearing a black dress dotted with red flowers and green leaves. She is sitting in a power wheelchair, facing the camera, and smiling. One of her hands is resting in her lap and the other hand is resting on the joystick of her wheelchair, turned so that a tattoo of a peacock feather is visible on her inner arm.
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SENIA will be back in ASIA for our Spring 2024 in-person conference!
We are partnering with International School Ho Chi Minh City to bring you a great conference packed with networking and learning opportunities. Stay tuned for more details. We can't wait to see you next March! |
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JIS Hosts SENIA Local Chapter Conference |
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On march 25th SENIA Indonesia welcomed over 65 people from 11 different schools and one international school to take part in the first Local Jakarta SENIA conference since COVID. The SENIA Indonesia committee sends a big thanks for all those who supported what we hope is first of many more local SENIA events. |
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2022 Virtual Conference: The Inclusion Revolution |
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