Embodied Methodologies: Ancestral Knowledge for Collective Healing, Identity, and Resistance
Sheraton Denver Downtown during the 2025 ASHE General Conference
1550 Court PlaceDenver, CO 80202-5107
United States
This session draws and calls upon embodied and ancestral knowledge of earth-based peoples as resistance strategies to counter systemic oppression and epistemic violence. With Project 2025, an orchestrated agenda that entrenches white supremacy through policies, this session provides onto-epsitemic groundings to persist in the pursuit of social justice.
Who should attend:
- Entry: Little to no experience with this topic
- Moderate: Some experience with this topic
- Advanced: Much experience with this topic
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Current ASHE Student Member
Registration Ends 11/3/25 at 12:00 PM MST
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$25.00 |
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Current ASHE Member
Registration Ends 11/3/25 at 12:00 PM MST
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$35.00 |
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Non-ASHE Member (Guest or Expired Member)
Registration Ends 11/3/25 at 12:00 PM MST
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$45.00 |
Product Add-ons
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| Donation to the ASHE Graduate Student Travel Fund View Product | FREE Donation |
Agenda
| November 14 | |
| 2:00 PM - 2:20 PM | Opening & Altar Setting |
| 2:20 PM - 2:50 PM | Components of Q Study Platica of Theoretical Foundations: Knowledge as Resistance |
| 2:50 PM - 3:30 PM | Small Groups: Fashioning Responses |
| 3:30 PM - 4:15 PM | Collective Practice: Embodied Knowledge in Action |
| 4:15 PM - 4:45 PM | Building Research Futures: We Heal, We Rise |
| 4:45 PM - 5:00 PM | Closing Circle & Reflection |
Ángel de Jesús González, Ed.D.
he/they/elle
Assistant Professor
Fresno State University
Dr. Ángel de Jesus González (he/they/elle) is an Assistant Professor of Higher Education Administration and Leadership at California State University, Fresno. They is a first-generation, Latinx, queer, joto scholar son to immigrant parents. Dr. Gonzalez’s scholarship interrogates power relations within higher education systems embedded with cisheteropatriarchy and compulsory genderism by examining how these racialized structures engage minoritized peoples broadly and Queer and/or Trans People of Color (QTPOC) communities specifically. As an interdisciplinary scholar, Dr. González employs critical theories and methods such as jotería studies, intersectionality, queer pláticas, testimonio, queer chisme, queer phenomenology, critical policy analysis, and QuantCrit to name a few.
Claudia García-Louis, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
University of Texas San Antonio
BIO: Claudia García-Louis self-identifies as a detribalized Wixárika, Mexicana, inmigrante MamíScholar, a former first-in-family and first-generation college student. Her scholarship is interdisciplinary in nature as she engages topics of Latinidad, LatinX identity, Indigeneity, education equity, race and ethnicity. She seeks to disrupt negative stereotypes about LatinX, minoritized populations, and underrepresented college students through the critical incorporation of culturally appropriate, asset-based methodological approaches. She employs decolonial methodologies to humanize the research process.
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