Valerie Kinloch, the Renée and Richard Goldman Dean of the School of Education, will speak at a national symposium of education, law and policy scholars to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision. The civil rights case declared that the segregation of public schools was a violation of the 14th Amendment, and therefore, unconstitutional. The unanimous ruling was delivered on May 17, 1954, by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren.

Kinloch was selected among a handful of speakers who will discuss Brown’s “promise of integration amid major contemporary threats to civil rights in education.” Kinloch, who has built her career on working to change the narrative of equity in education, will specifically speak on the topic of “Growing Critically Conscious Teachers.” The event, titled Brown@65, will be held at Penn State University on May 10.