Democratizing "Elite" Higher Education
BREAKING THE CLASS CEILING
Inaugural Conference for students in the fight for equitable higher education.
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November 8–11 2024
365d
24h
60m
60s
We're bringing together student advocates across the nation to:
Discuss pressing issues in higher education, such as affirmative action, legacy admissions, university taxation, community engagement, and career funneling;
Exchange organizing strategy and tactics used in different institutions;
Build meaningful connections and explore avenues for intercollegiate collaboration.
We'll be back with event details soon. Stick around for more information!
365d
24h
60m
60s
The conference is a joint effort between organizers from colleges across the country.
Nick Lee
Logistics Co-Lead
Junior at Brown. Nick is Co-President of Students for Educational Equity and Co-lead of its Admissions and Access Team.
Logistics Co-Lead
Junior at Brown concentrating in Cognitive Neuroscience and Science, Tech., and Society. She plans to combine her interest in science, equity, and inclusion by focusing on technological and medical ethics. She explores her passion for educational justice as Co-President and Co-Lead of Students for Educational Equity (SEE) at Brown.
Class Action Summer Organizer
Elyse (She/her) is a senior at Harvard focused on arts, academics, and activism. With Class Action, she is excited about educational equity from an intersectional lens
Class Action Co-founder
Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice at CUNY. A longtime critic of legacy preference and other inequities of access, Evan is the author most recently of Poison Ivy: How Elite Colleges Divide Us. A graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, Evan has written seven other books and won Emmy and Peabody Awards in 2019.
Dohyeon Kim
Outreach Lead
Dohyeon is Amherst '26 from South Korea. She is a member of The Better Amherst Initiative, a student organization working to change the culture of corporate career funneling on campus.
Budgetary Lead
A senior at Amherst and a Leader of Amherst Students for Democracy and the Better Amherst Initiative, two student orgs fighting career funneling and building student interest in public service careers. He cares deeply about equity in higher education and is excited to organize with Class Action.
Fundraising
Brown '27, redistribution team co-lead of Students for Educational Equity, an org dedicated to keeping our university accountable in their engagement with the local public school system in order to improve the lived experiences of students.
Outreach & Social Media
Shawn is a member of Class Action's social media team and worked on the outreach committee for this conference. A member of Bowdoin '27, Shawn works to push for inclusive and equitable spaces, both in and out of the classroom.
Emmanuel Chery
Fundraising
Brown ‘27, co-lead of the redistribution team for Students for Educational Equity, committed to making higher education an inclusive and welcoming space for all. He is also a Teaching Fellow under the National Education Equity Lab.
Fundraising Co-Lead
Ryan recently graduated from Stanford University with a B.A. in International Relations and an M.A. in Sociology. He's the lead organizer at Class Action, a group of grassroots organizers holding so-called elite colleges accountable to a higher standard.
Design/Tech Lead
Designed this website! Amherst '26, founding member of Amherst Students for Democracy and Ideas to Innovation, two orgs building a campus culture of active change-makers and fighting against the tide of corporate funneling