Decolonization & Global Justice Conference

January 22nd–24th 2026

Decolonization and Global Justice will be a three-day, transdisciplinary conference that brings together decolonial, postcolonial, anticolonial, Indigenous and anti-imperial feminist perspectives on contemporary global crises.

We invite critical interventions against ongoing injustices, such as extractivism and exploitation in the Global South, genocide and displacement of Indigenous peoples around the world, the disproportional impacts of ecological degradation, and the transnational afterlives of slavery and colonization.

The complexity of these intertwined situations requires diverse perspectives, including those situated outside of traditional academic formats. We take a transdisciplinary approach that brings together academic and non-academic contributions, including traditional scholarly presentations, artistic interventions, experimental workshops, and other forms of community-based knowledge production.

Keynote speakers:

Dr. Nada Elia is Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Western Washington specializing in transnational, decolonial, and gender struggles, with a focus on Arab America and Palestine. As a scholar-activist, Dr. Elia is a member of the Palestinian Feminist Collective and author of Greater than the Sum of Our Parts: Feminism, Inter/Nationalism, and Palestine, Palestine: Un feminism de liberation, and Trances, Dances, and Vociferations: Agency and Resistance in Africana Women’s Narratives, and is currently completing a third single-authored book, Falastiniyyat: A Century of Palestinian Feminisms.

Jenipher Jones is a civil movement and human rights attorney and Managing Attorney of For the People, LLC. Jones currently joint chairs the Mass Incarceration Committee of the National Lawyers Guild (NLG), serves on the Board of Directors of the Faculty of Federal Advocates (FFA), is a board member of the National Conference of Black Lawyers (NCBL). Jones represents and works with several political prisoners in the United States, including Leonard Peltier and Eric King, who have both been freed from prison during her representation.

Dr. Nnimmo Bassey is director of the ecological think-tank Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) and member of the steering committee of Oilwatch International. He is the former chair of Friends of the Earth International (2008–2012) and Executive Director of Nigeria’s Environmental Rights Action (1993–2013). His books include We Thought it Was Oil, But It was Blood, I will Not Dance to Your Beat, To Cook a Continent: Destructive Extraction and the Climate Crisis in Africa, and Oil Politics: Echoes of Ecological War.

Kalonji Jama Changa is the National Coordinator and founder of the FTP Movement, Black Power Media, and an author of Revolution in These Times and co-author of Beyond Cop Cities: Dismantling Corporate-Funded Armies. He also serves as co-chair of the Urban Survival and Preparedness Institute, is a consultant with For the People, LLC, and co-producer of "Organizing is the New Cool." As an active people's advocate, Kalonji has fought on multiple fronts tackling issues such as local and national police brutality cases to international human rights violations.