Every year since 2024, the BlackECE Symposium has gathered educators, families, scholars, cultural workers, policymakers, and funders around one shared belief. Black children, their families, and the Black professionals who care for and teach them deserve an early care and education system that sees, honors, and invests in them.

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Grounded in Black cultural knowledge and collective liberation, the Symposium is where we advance a reparative vision for early learning. We share research and lived wisdom side by side, build alliances across sectors, and co-create the policy, funding, and community priorities that guide our collective action in the year ahead.

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We are not beginning anew. We are carrying forward ancestral wisdom, and every year, more of us carry it together.