Share Your Voice!
BIPOC Voices is a program, created by POCIS Northwest, that brings together educators working in our member schools. In BIPOC Voices, educators share ideas, offer support and encouragement, and discuss ways for our respective schools to implement the ideas and approaches shared by guest speakers.
In fall and spring, POCIS Northwest hosts a BIPOC Voices Summit. See below for more information.
Member schools can find event resources at the Resources for Educators page.
Please ask your POCIS representative for the password.
POCIS Northwest cordially invites faculty, administrators, and staff members from member schools to the
Fall 2025 BIPOC Voices Summit
With special guest Jesse Hagopian on October 23rd, 2025, from 9:00 a.m. – 2:00p.m.
Jesse Hagopian is a nationally recognized educator, writer, and speaker whose two decades of work as a teacher, mentor, and organizer center student voices and reimagine what schools can be. He teaches Ethnic Studies at Seattle’s Garfield High School—his alma mater and the site of the historic 2013 MAP test boycott—and serves as an editor for Rethinking Schools magazine. Jesse is the author of Teach Truth: The Struggle for Antiracist Education, co-editor of several acclaimed volumes, including Black Lives Matter at Schooland Teaching for Black Lives, and directs the Teaching for Black Lives campaign with the Zinn Education Project. He also founded the Black Education Matters Student Activist Award to uplift youth leadership in Seattle. His commentary has appeared in major outlets such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, PBS, CNN, and Democracy Now!, and his contributions to education and social justice have earned him national recognition, including the Lannan Foundation’s Cultural Freedom Fellowship, the Academy of Education Arts and Sciences’ Courageous Leadership Award, and the 2025 William Sloane Coffin Jr. Peacemaker Award.
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Past Events
Spring 2025 BIPOC Voices Summit
Help! I can’t do this alone!
This event took place on May 9, 2025 at Seattle Waldorf School and the focus was on community building and recentering wellness.
Fall 2024 BIPOC Voices Summit
With guest speaker, Liz Kleinrock, on October 15, 2024, from 9:00 a.m.- 2:00 p.m. at The Evergreen School.
This event took place on October 15, 2024.
Spring 2024 BIPOC Voices Summit
Building Bridges within Your School: Decentering Cultural Norms on April 25 from 9:00 a.m.- 2:00 p.m. PST at Forest Ridge School of the Sacred Heart
This event took place on April 25, 2024
Fall 2023 BIPOC Voices Summit
Proactive Strategies for Identity Affirmation with special guest Rosetta Lee on October 20, 2023
9:30 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. PST
This event took place on October 20, 2023.
”Honestly the best PD I've attended over the past couple of years! Y'all did a great job in organizing this!
Educator in Bellevue, WA
Spring 2023 BIPOC Voices Summit –Healing Through the Arts on March 11, 2023 9:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
This was the first in-person BIPOC Voices Summit, which took place on Saturday, March 11, 2023 at Seattle Academy of the Arts and Sciences
”All of the presentations and speakers were amazing! I loved each one because they were interactive and research-based. It was incredible to walk out of the event with tools to use with my students. - Teacher in Seattle