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Come join us at the 2025 Management & Social Justice Conference at the New School in New York City! Connect, share, learn, teach, and enjoy the community of scholars, practitioners, and activists who share a collective passion about how to transform organizations and management as vehicles for building a more just world.Â
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This project has brought together thousands of individuals from over 66 countries in the last four years. We look forward to having old friends and making new ones!Â
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In the 2025 conference, we focus on the role of technology in managing for social justice. However, if you have a paper that you want to share on a non-thematic topic related to the general field of management and social justice, please reach out to us so we can consider your submission to be included in the poster session.
If you need a scholarship to attend the conference, please reach out to us at poonamallee@newschool.edu with a subject line 2025 Management & Social Justice Conference. If you are a New School student, you can register here for your free ticket.Â
Presented by the Milano School of Policy, Management, and Environment at the Schools of Public Engagement and Management + Entrepreneurship Programs at The New School.
The virtual Management and Social Justice Conversation Series is for those interested in critical and generative approaches to management scholarship, teaching, and practice based on relevant, topical, and invigorating social theories. The series presenters will present work that is focused on inclusion in workplaces as well as questions of racial, ecological, economic, and gender injustice, and that goes beyond the historical agendas of business schools and for-profit corporations, including profit maximization, and managerialist agendas. Visit our website for more information on our past and upcoming events in this webinar series.
Organizations today need leaders who can navigate a fast-changing economy, applying an entrepreneurial outlook and keen analytical skills to emerging business opportunities and global forces. At The New School's colleges and schools — from Parsons and Milano to Media Studies and Performing Arts — management and entrepreneurship education goes beyond promoting conventional business approaches to develop creative problem solvers skilled at managing within future-facing, creative, socially engaged environments. Our distinctive approach is rooted in five overarching themes and in-demand capacities: Design, Futures, Human Experience, Social Justice, and Systems. Learn more.
Committed to amplifying diverse voices, The New School offers more than a thousand public programs and events each year, providing fresh perspectives and unique learning opportunities. These lectures, exhibitions, concerts, and performances feature prominent and emerging artists, activists, and thought leaders.
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Lili Gangas is the Chief Technology Community Officer at the Kapor Center, an operating foundation at the intersection of technology and racial justice, providing research and thought leadership, operating programs, supporting strategic partnerships and investments to increase diversity across the tech ecosystem--from K-12 education through entrepreneurship and venture capital. She co-leads the Kapor Center’s Equitable Tech Policy Initiative with a focus on inclusive technology policy with special interests in closing digital divide, scaling new tech workforce models, advocating for responsible emerging technology as well as providing foundational support across civic engagement issues and tech enablement of civic organizations.
She's been recognized as Latino Leader’s 100 Most Influential Latinas, ALPFA’s 50 Latinas to Watch, SF Business Times Most Influential Women in Business, SF Business Times 40 Under 40, featured Salesforce Dreamforce and TEDxOakland speaker. Lili's tech fellowships include Omidyar Network's Digital Luminaries and New America CA focused on Tech for Good. She's been part of key working groups including FCC Diversity & Inclusion WG, Aspen Latinos & Society Digital Equity, Aspen Fair Data Future, Rock Health Latine Digital Health Innovators WG.
Lili is also the co-founder of 2x Emmy NorCal award winning LTXConnect.org - a platform elevating rising Latinx/e voices at the intersection of culture, innovation, inclusion, and opportunity, through partnerships, programs, and technology. LTXConnect’s LTXQuest was one of the largest virtual community activations, bringing close to 5K Latinx/e across sectors together for job & startup launch preparation, knowledge sharing, advocacy and systems change.
Before coming to the Kapor Center, Lili was an Associate Principal at Accenture Technology Lab’s Open Innovation team, based out of Silicon Valley, focused on partnerships and programming to connect startups to Fortune 500 clients. She was also a founding member of the Innovation Services team at Booz Allen specializing in crowdsourcing, prize challenges, and open data solutions at the federal level. Before that, Lili could be found in the lab working on software and hardware solutions for the aerospace industry as a Senior Multi-Disciplined Software Engineer at Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems. Lili holds an MBA from New York University Stern School of Business, a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California.
Dr. Param Srikantia is a professor of the management and leadership department in the Baldwin Wallace Carmel Boyer School of Business. A TEDx presenter and a keynote speaker, he has embarked on public seminars with a focus on the transformation of personal and organizational consciousness that have now grown to a contagious level of popularity reaching several hundred thousand attendees across the world. The seminars are a unique blend of humor, storytelling, pantomimes, mindfulness and applied behavioral science insights woven together in a unique genre at the intersection of education and entertainment.
Srikantia has authored over 35 scholarly papers in management, published and presented at conferences in the US, Europe, Asia, Africa and South America. He has worked in leadership positions in six global conglomerates including the World Bank Group, Arthur Andersen, the Unilever Group, the American Cyanamid Company, Lederle Laboratories and the Tata Group of Companies, in addition to projects funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and USAID. He has taught as lead faculty at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University, as visiting faculty at the Schar School of Government and Policy at George Mason University, and at the business programs at the University of Iowa, The FAE Business School in Brazil, the Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies and the S.P Jain Institute of Management & Research in India.
He was invited by the Institute for Management Studies (IMS), an international training organization that features "cutting edge" thinkers to offer seminars to their membership base of companies in the United States, Canada and Europe. Dr. Steve Daniel, Former National Program Manager of IMS equated Srikantia’s capabilities with those of seven legendary management educators and invited him to speak at an IMS conference featuring senior leaders from 26 cities across North America and Europe:
"Dr. Srikantia is one of the very best educators with whom IMS has worked," Dr. Daniel wrote. "This is saying a great deal as IMS has been around since 1974 and has been fortunate to work with many remarkable people over the years, including Stephen Covey, Charles Handy, Peter Drucker, Michael Porter, David Ulrich, Vijay Govindrajan and Ram Charan to name just a few. As a thinker and educator, I believe that Dr. Srikantia occupies a secure place in this exclusive group."
Dr. John Gershenson is the Director of the Humanitarian Engineering and Social Entrepreneurship (HESE) Program at Penn State University. He has a B.A. in physics from Cornell University, an M.S. in mechanical engineering from The Ohio State University, and a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from University of Idaho. His research—which includes work on product/process architecture, lean/sustainable design and manufacturing, and appropriate technologies—includes more than 75 peer-reviewed publications and he has been principal investigator or co-principal investigator on proposals valued at more than $10 million. He has strong experience in developing technologies and their applications in Kenya, including as CEO of a startup. Dr. Gershenson’s research lab is currently developing 3D printing of medical technologies for use in rural healthcare clinics, particularly in East Africa. The HESE program is also very active in medtech, agtech, and edtech.
Research Professor Mishack Gumbo is experienced with a demonstrated history of working in the higher education industry. Skilled in Research Design, Academic Publishing, Teacher Training, Academic Writing, and Mentoring. Strong education professional with a BA, UED, Ort-Internat Cert in TE, BEd Hons, MEd TE, MEd ODL, MPhil AT, PhD Indigenous Tech & Cur focused in Indigenous Technological Technological Systems Education, Technology Teachers' Pedagogical Content Knowle.
Currently building Agami which aims to radically increase innovation and changemaking in and around systems of law and justice. 7 years into its journey Agami's systemic impact on improving access to justice and legal systems is widely documented. More at www.agami.in
Before Agami, I led the Changemakers program at the leading global non-profit Ashoka. Changemakers leverages Ashoka's global network of innovators and impact partners to search, convene and connect high-potential changemakers, and their ideas and resources, to accelerate change around critical social issues.
Before Ashoka I was an entrepreneur in offline and online education, online communities, and the talent industry, starting and leading three ventures that have achieved significant social and commercial impact, and a healthy dose of failure.