May
7
12:00 PM12:00

YouthREX: Ontario

Precarity & Promise: Youth Work as the Process of Futuring

Virtual Keynote

Youth work and the nonprofit sector are filled with structural challenges that shape youth workers’ personal and professional lives. Despite these challenges, youth workers cultivate experiences and opportunities for young people to thrive. Considering the complexity and precarity of the youth work landscape, including the pressure the field is under to address societal and educational problems, and the quick decisions youth workers are forced to make daily – under what conditions does the process of conscious futuring and dreaming occur? This virtual keynote radically reclaims the space needed to contemplate the viability and sustainability of youth work as a process of futuring. 

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Feb
17
7:00 PM19:00

Virtual Book Release Party

Celebrate the release of

Laboring in the Shadows!

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Join Us for the launch of Laboring in the Shadows: Precarity and Promise in Black Youth Work!

Get cozy and dive into an engaging conversation during the virtual Book Release Party for Laboring in the Shadows! This online event is your chance to hear directly from the author, ask questions, and explore the stories behind the book. Whether you're an educator, mentor, program designer, or just curious about the lives unfolded in the pages, this chat is for you. Don't miss out on this exciting first reveal — all from the comfort of your own home!

Advanced Praise for Laboring in the Shadows

"Using rich, descriptive profiles, Bianca Baldridge highlights the unwavering commitment and the structural challenges that youth workers navigate—reminding us of their vital roles in sustaining community and nurturing hope for an anti-racist future." Prudence L. Carter, Brown University

"Bianca Baldridge's sensitive, riveting exposé of the exploitative and essential character of Black youth work offers a fresh take on how neoliberal education continues to reproduce deep racial and class inequalities, and what we can do to change it. Hint: passion and sacrifice are not enough."
Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination

"Bianca Baldridge reminds us of the centrality of youth workers as educational professionals, illuminating the power and generative nature of what they contribute to our economy and society...a stellar contribution.” Gloria Ladson-Billings, Former President, National Academy of Education

"In this beautifully crafted portrait of how youth workers from marginalized backgrounds provide critical labor in nonprofits, Bianca Baldridge brings to life their voices and hopes. Nonprofit labor will never look the same after you have read this book."
Woody Powell, Stanford University




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Feb
4
7:00 PM19:00

Author on Authors: Harvard Book Store

Harvard Book Store welcomes Bianca J. Baldridge—Associate Professor of Education at Harvard University—and Gabrielle Oliveira—Jorge Paulo Lemann Associate Professor of Education and Brazil Studies at the Harvard Graduate School of Education—for a discussion of their new books, Laboring in the Shadows: Precarity and Promise in Black Youth Work and Now We Are Here: Family Migration, Children’s Education, and Dreams for a Better Life. 

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