Welcome to #MYFest26!
This is Equity Unbound’s fifth annual “Mid-Year Festival” (MYFest). Equity Unbound continues to co-create brave spaces and nurture a caring community for life-long-learners everywhere.
Our global open education festival is hosted virtually throughout June, July & August 2026.
Themes in MYFest26
Throughout June, July, and August, MYFest will invite participants to reimagine future(s) together. As always, we remain committed to the global and networked nature of our work, while also deepening our attention to embodied connection, contemplative practices, and intentional care. This year’s festival is grounded in the belief that transformation often begins in intimate, everyday spaces rather than through grand gestures alone.
We are guided by the understanding that socially just care and cultural change are built through countless small interactions and practices. Small actions shape larger systems. Local interactions ripple outward. The ways we listen, teach, imagine, support, and show up for one another ultimately influence our institutions and our collective life together.
With this spirit in mind, the following themes will guide our MYFest conversations and gatherings:
- Community building and collective reflection
- Wellbeing, restoration, and joy
- Contemplative practices for individual and collective care
- Intergenerational learning and connection ( (bring your family/friends of all ages)
- Teaching and learning with imagination
- Critical AI literacies in the age of algorithmic logic
Join us as we create space for reflection, experimentation, dialogue, and possibility together!
MYFest26 Speakers and Facilitators
This is the preliminary list of speakers that will facilitate sessions at MYFest26. This list is growing and emergent so please make sure to keep checking the updated speakers and sessions!
- Mays Imad
- Mia Zamora
- Maha Bali
- Nadine Aboulmagd
- Theresa Destrebecq
- Lance Eaton
- Rhoan Garnett
- Alan Levine
- Dani Dilkes
- Kathy Chandler
- Yasser Atef
- Kim Fox
- Irene Maweu
- Doreen Nutune
- Jennie Blake
- Heather Kretschmer
We organize all of our Equity Unbound events with the ethos of Intentionally Equitable Hospitality (IEH) – a praxis that means our organizers and facilitators take seriously their responsibility to intentionally create spaces that feel welcoming to everyone, especially those farthest from justice. Read about how we have designed MYFest in this Inside Higher Ed article, or this briefer version of it.
