Museum Teen Programs Symposium

Mimi Ito, PhD, is a cultural anthropologist, learning scientist, entrepreneur, and an advocate for connected learning—learning that is equity-oriented, centered on youth interest, and socially connected. Her work decodes digital youth culture for parents and educators, offering ways to tap interests and digital media to fuel learning that is engaging, relevant, and social. She is professor in residence and John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Chair in Digital Media and Learning at the University of California, Irvine, where she directs the Connected Learning Lab (CLL). The CLL stewards the Connected Learning Alliance, an expanding network of educators, experts, and youth-serving organizations mobilizing new technology in the service of equity, access, and opportunity for all young people. Ito is also co-founder of Connected Camps, a nonprofit providing online learning experiences for kids in all walks of life. Her publications include Algorithmic Rights and Protections for Children (June 2023), Social Media and Youth Wellbeing (2020), The Connected Learning Research Network: Reflections on a Decade of Engaged Scholarship (2020), Affinity Online: How Connection and Shared Interest Fuel Learning (2018), and From Good Intentions to Real Outcomes: Equity by Design in Learning Technologies (2017).

Julio Cammarota, PhD, is a professor of education at the University of Arizona. His research focuses on participatory action research with Latinx youth, institutional factors in academic achievement, critical race theory, and liberatory pedagogy. He has published articles on family, work, and education among Latinxs and on the relationship between culture and academic achievement. Cammarota’s work has been instrumental with advancing social justice in education and youth development. He is the co-editor of two volumes in the Critical Youth Studies series published by Routledge/Falmer Press: Beyond Resistance! Youth Activism and Community Change: New Democratic Possibilities for Practice and Policy for America’s Youth (2006) and Revolutionizing Education: Youth Participatory Action Research in Motion (2008). In addition, Cammarota has published an ethnography of Latinx youth titled Sueños Americanos: Barrio Youth Negotiate Social and Cultural Identities (University of Arizona Press, 2008). His work includes co-editing a volume on the struggle for ethnic studies in Tucson: Raza Studies: The Public Option for Educational Revolution (University of Arizona Press, 2014). He published a co-edited collection on participatory-action research for Latinx communities titled PAR EntreMundos: A Pedagogy of Las Americas (Peter Lang, 2018). Recently, he edited a volume on liberatory pedagogy, Liberatory Practices for Learning: Dismantling Social Inequality and Individualism with Ancient Wisdom (Palgrave 2020).

Stephen Kwok makes experimental events that incorporate sculpture, live performance, digital media, and text into participatory systems. He has exhibited his work at Seoul Museum of Art; Surplus Space, Wuhan; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn; Julius Caesar Gallery, Chicago; Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans; and Lawndale Art Center, Houston; and he has participated in programs at Delfina Foundation in London, the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal, and NEW INC in New York. He lives in Brooklyn, teaches design at Brooklyn College, and serves as the curator of public engagement at Dia Art Foundation.

This program will have ASL interpretation.

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