Welcome to #MYFest25! This is Equity Unbound’s fourth annual “Mid-Year Festival” (MYFest). Equity Unbound continues to co-create brave spaces and nurture a caring community for life-long-learners everywhere.
This global open education festival is hosted virtually throughout June, July & August 2025.
Themes in MYFest25
In response to the weight of multidimensional exhaustion that many are experiencing, #MYFest25 will be a “recharge and renewal experience” exploring:
- Teaching and learning with imagination
- Artificial intelligence & critical AI literacies. We will have two tracks:
- Critical approaches to AI
- Ideas for integrating AI in teaching and learning
- Critical pedagogy, anti-oppressive education, and socially just care
– Environmental and ecological dignity
– Accessibility & sustainability - Community building and community reflection
- Wellbeing and joy
- Intergenerational learning
- Open educational practices and digital literacies
- And emergent themes evolving from our participants
MYFest25 Speakers and Facilitators
This is a preliminary list of the speakers we will be hosting for MYFest25 insha Allah!
- Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti and Giovanna Andreotti
- Ken Bauer
- Jennie Blake
- Leon Furze
- Nadine Moussa
- Sam Illingworth
- Theresa Destrebecq
- Laura Gibbs
- Heather Kretschmer
- Kathy Chandler
- Rebecca Hogue
- Maha Bali
- Mia Zamora
- Nadine Aboulmagd
- Yasser Atef
- Stella Lee
- Laura Dumin
- Tai Munro
- Jon Ippolito
- Virna Rossi
- Kate Bowles
- Dave Cormier
- Tanja Murphy-Ilibasic and Robin Ilibasic
and many others that we will be adding day by day. This list is growing and is emergent! So keep checking.
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.
