Black Educator Healing Convening | March 21-22 | Los Angeles, CA

The Black Teacher Project is dedicated to supporting Black teachers in creating communities of liberated learning. We believe that the wellness of Black educators is an essential priority as we work collaboratively towards reimagining our school environments into places that enable students to manifest their full potentials. Now, more than ever, it is important to provide our teachers with practical tools, approaches, and support spaces that center our collective healing and humanity. As Black teachers and educators, our communities need our leadership, which requires us to be a demonstration of the wholeness that is ours by birthright.

Collective Liberation in Action: A Black Educator Healing Convening is hosted in partnership with Liberated Educators Lab, Resilient Futures, and Black Educator Advocates Network. This event is a 2-day opportunity to be immersed in a cocoon of Black love where participants will reconnect to ancestral wisdom and their humanity as Black educators and leaders. By trying on mindsets and practices that cultivate and enrich their thriving inside and outside of schools, attendees will build capacity for continuing Black educators’ legacy of taking action towards a liberated future.

Participants will:

• Share time and space for connection, collective healing, and community building with other Black educators.
• Engage in wellness practices that support an embodiment of self-love, soulfulness, healing, and agency.
• Explore affirming approaches to health and well-being that are centered in Black identity development.
• Learn about frameworks and tools that support practices for healing and thriving.
• Experience an increased sense of possibility, creativity, and agency to transcend constraints and limitations.
• Deepen understanding about the relationship between adult wellness and teaching.
• Learn advocacy approaches and how organizing and advocacy connect to healing.

• Individual Black educators
• Communities or teams of Black educators

• Saturday, March 21 – Sunday, March 22, 2026.
• 9:30am–4:00 pm each day. Breakfast and lunch are provided.

• Marina Del Rey Hotel, 13534 Bali Way, Marina Del Rey, CA 90292.

• The venue is located about 20 mins from the LAX airport.
• The 3 Downtown Santa Monica Bus drops off 12 minutes from the hotel.
• BTP will provide valet parking for attendees.

• Cost: $99 (includes facilitation; resources; Saturday breakfast & Lunch ; Sunday breakfast & lunch; t-shirt). Please note that this registration fee does not include lodging, but you may contact Marina Del Rey Hotel about reserving accommodations.
• Registration by credit card on Eventbrite is our preferred method. We are a small (but mighty) organization and processing and collecting check payments for our events has a high administrative impact.
• Fill out our BTP Event Registration Form to pay by check or purchase order.
• We have 10 scholarships available for TK-12 school-based educators. Applications are due Sunday, February 1, 2026; click here to apply.

• Micia Mosely, PhD, has dedicated her career to helping students reach their full creative and academic potential. Dr. Mosely began her career as a high school social studies teacher in San Francisco, CA and earned her Ph.D. in Education, with an emphasis on Social and Cultural Studies from the University of California at Berkeley. She has been a leader in educational equity with the Bay Area Coalition of Equitable Schools, The Posse Foundation and The National Equity Project. In 2015 she founded The Black Teacher Project, an organization committed to helping Black teachers create communities of liberated learning. She currently serves as the Executive Director. In this capacity she has supported the sustainability and leadership of over 2,200 teachers nationwide and worked to influence policy on local and state levels. Dr. Mosely's research focused on racial equity in schools and the impact of Black teachers has been published in several edited books and peer reviewed journals. Micia is also an accomplished actress and stand up comedian. She also enjoys teaching people to play spades in an affirming environment free of shame.
• Dr. Asia Lyons, Ed.D.is the founder and lead consultant for Lyons Educational Consulting LLC, a consulting and coaching firm that supports schools and other non-profits through equity auditing of their programming, co-creation of culturally responsive programming and curriculum, and job-embedded coaching. Prior to founding Lyons Educational Consulting, Dr. Lyons worked as a K-12 educator for over 10 years. She also served as the Equity in Schools Specialist in a Denver based non-profit, a role in which she worked with schools and non-profit partners across the Denver Metro Area to provide communities with resources to support the closing of the access gap for BIPOC youth. In addition to her work in coaching and consulting, Dr. Lyons is an adjunct instructor in the School of Education and Human Development at the University of Colorado – Denver. She obtained her doctorate in Leadership for Educational Equity, where her research focuses on the ways that racism-related stress crosses over from Black educators to their families. Finally, Dr. Lyons is the co-host of The Exit Interview, a podcast focusing on the lived experiences of former Black educators.
• Eleonora Cahill, Ed.M, PhD (she/hers) Child Psychologist, brings extensive expertise in education and psychology, focusing on trauma support and racial equity. After graduating from Middlebury College as an English Major and Secondary Education minor, Dr. Cahill pursued a Master's degree from Harvard University in Risk and Prevention: Adolescence, followed by a PhD in School, Community, and Clinical Child Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. Her commitment to ongoing learning yields several certifications, including the Neurosequential Method of Therapeutics. Additionally, Dr. Cahill is a trained meditation facilitator and restorative justice circle-keeper. She now is a Co-Founder & Co-Executive Director of Resilient Futures, and President of Pilar Consulting Services, using her expertise of curricular development, traumatic stress, racial trauma, and family systems to focus on creating trauma-informed educational communities. In her free time she enjoys hiking, spending time with her family, and playing the violin.
• Jalisa Evans (she/hers) has committed a decade of her career in various roles impacting the education of black and brown students. Jalisa began her career as a middle school teacher in Charlotte, North Carolina. During her first year as a teacher, she participated in her first campaign securing $132.2 million dollars worth of county funding to support schools serving Black and Brown students. Her commitment to education led her to Los Angeles, where she continued teaching seventh-grade science. After serving in the classroom, Jalisa transitioned to lead a grassroots campaign alongside Black families across Los Angeles. This campaign resulted in the Validated plan which allocated funds and resources to over 14,000 Black students in Los Angeles Unified School District. Jalisa founded The Black Educator Advocates Network (BEAN) to transform the environment, practices, and policies impacting the teaching experience for Black educators. BEAN supports Black educators to take collective action against these barriers and collaborates with school leaders and districts to build anti-racist schools and workforce. Jalisa earned her Masters in Social Work from the University of Southern California and a Bachelors of Arts from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University.

• By registering for this event, participants agree to our COVID-19 ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND LIABILITY WAIVER AND RELEASE OF CLAIMS and the Black Teacher Project In Person Event Health & Safety Policy
• In an effort to create accessible spaces for everyone, we ask that participants refrain from wearing scented products such as perfume/colognes, hair products, cosmetics, and scented lotions while attending our event, as these products can trigger serious health issues for those with fragrance allergies and/or chemical sensitivities. For more information on being fragrance-free, visit this Fragrance Free Toolkit.
• If you have any dietary limitations or allergies, please share them with us in your registration form.

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