2025 Keynote Speakers

Asao B. Inoue

Asao B. Inoue is Professor of Rhetoric and Composition in the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts at Arizona State University. He is the 2019 Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication. Among his many articles and chapters on writing assessment, race, and racism, his article, “Theorizing Failure in U.S. Writing Assessments” in Research in the Teaching of English, won the 2014 CWPA Outstanding Scholarship Award. His co-edited collection, Race and Writing Assessment (2012), won the 2014 NCTE/CCCC Outstanding Book Award for an edited collection. His book, Antiracist Writing Assessment Ecologies: Teaching and Assessing for a Socially Just Future (2015) won the 2017 NCTE/CCCC Outstanding Book Award for a monograph and the 2015 CWPA Outstanding Book Award. He also has published numerous other co-edited collections on antiracist writing assessment, as well as other books, such as Labor-Based Grading Contracts: Building Equity and Inclusion in the Compassionate Writing Classroom (2019/2022); Above the Well: An Antiracist Argument from A Boy of Color (2021); and Cripping Labor-Based Grading for More Equity in Literacy Courses (2023). Additionally, he and his wife initiated the Asao and Kelly Inoue Antiracist Teaching Endowment at their alma mater, Oregon State University, which supports antiracist teaching and research by secondary and post-secondary teachers.

Jeff Anderson

Jeff Anderson is an Instructor in the Department of Mathematics at Foothill College. Jeff's top-level professional goal is to use antiracist learning science to help people thrive. Jeff hopes also to empower people in his life to leverage their own sense of democratic engagement in our communities and to think deeply about how they might use their learning skills as tools to serve and empower other people, especially those folks who have the least systemic power in our society. Jeff does work towards this goal as a research educator, a research mathematician, an educational consultant, an author, a content creator, a learning skills mentor, and a scholarship coach.

Eden Tanner

Dr. Eden E. L. Tanner completed her undergraduate degree in Advanced Science (Chemistry) at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. She earned her doctorate in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Oxford with Prof Richard G. Compton, and moved to Harvard University in 2017 as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Samir Mitragotri. As of August 2020, Dr. Tanner is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Mississippi. The Tanner Lab works at the interface of Chemistry and Bioengineering with a focus on using ionic liquids to solve problems in nanoparticle drug delivery. Dr. Tanner believes everyone is a “science person” and has been experimenting with alternative grading models in General Chemistry to create equitable and growth-oriented educational spaces.