Ann M. Ishimaru
@prof-ishimaru.bsky.social
Writer dreamer chocoholic mom foodie traveler Just Schools Asian American community Univ of Washington Prof of Ed Policy, Organizations & Leadership. 2025 Doing the Work!
ICE is engaged in a very large escalation nationwide, with the agency claiming to be hitting record arrest numbers amid the return of quotas. This has gotten very little attention from the media because ICE learned lessons from the chaotic disasters of Kristi Noem’s tenure. Keep a watch.
WA Whistles@wawhistles.bsky.social · 2mo agoICE is surging in the Seattle area. (Map shows activity in the last week) Do you have your whistle with you?
Facing galloping economic inequality and democratic backsliding, young people increasingly view tech titans as enriching only themselves.
OPINION: The days of ‘good guy’ capitalists are over. College students are right to turn against the tech elites
The students booing artificial intelligence at commencements across the country are not just worried about jobs. They have learned an urgent lesson from the not-so-distant past. They know that the familiar promise of empowerment and creativity will continue to give way to the pathologies of the online surveillance economy: viral slop, commercial manipulation and addictive apps — this time on automated steroids. The utopian promise of the tech industry is on life support. The hope that it would empower workers and revitalize democracy soured sometime between the massive data breach of the…
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I just signed a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: Protect Academic Freedom in Higher Education. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/ha...
Protect Academic Freedom in Higher Education
We represent students, parents, higher education faculty and staff, and concerned citizens united in opposition to the dangerous proposed rules. We write at a grave moment in our country’s history, ...
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Despite the hot mess of the world, the universe sent this message by way of a note on a giveaway mirror next to the street: “joy is your birthright” ❤️
“The practical work, then, is solidarity - not as sentiment or moral measure, but as infrastructure. The ordinary disciplines of showing up for each other.” open.substack.com/pub/antiauth...
Fear Is the Fulcrum
My Gift to You On My Birthday
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Outrageous. Stripping Liam Conejo Ramos and his family of asylum is beyond cruel and indefensible. This decision must be overturned. Shame.
Judge ends asylum claims for Liam Conejo Ramos and his family, orders family's removal
The family’s lawyers plan to appeal the judge’s decision to deport the family to Ecuador.
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This is a genuinely huge, sweeping victory today for the University of California—or rather, for us, its faculty, acting through our faculty associations, while the UC itself maintained a strict policy of deer-in-headlights silence. The Trump admin has given up its appeal of a powerful injunction:
Trump administration drops appeal of court order blocking $1.2-billion UCLA settlement
The Trump administration dropped its appeal of a major higher education case in which a federal judge blocked its $1.2-billion settlement proposal to UCLA over alleged civil rights violations. It will...
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Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous
Yes, yes and yes! “When we counter disinformation, we need facts and feelings. When we mobilize voters, we need data and joy. When we build resistance, we need strategy and beauty.” open.substack.com/pub/antiauth...
The Man Who Couldn't Choose
Why Movements Need Art, Not Just Arguments
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Hey Chicago, city of my birth - headed your way soon w/Dr. Irby & Dr. Swinney! Pls register & spread the word! #DoingtheWork #ChiTown #ChicagoBeyond @tcpress.bsky.social
Coriolis@coriolisco.bsky.social · 9mo agoJoin Dr. Decoteau Irby, @prof-ishimaru.bsky.social, and Dr. Maurice Swinney, for a crucial discussion on sustaining equity leadership amidst the current anti-DEI backlash. 🗓️Dec 9, 2025 at Chicago Beyond Register now: www.eventbrite.com/e/doing-the-... #DoingTheWork #EducationalPolicy
Q&A with Decoteau J. Irby and Ann M. Ishimaru about their new book, DOING THE WORK OF EQUITY LEADERSHIP FOR JUSTICE AND SYSTEMS CHANGE. @prof-ishimaru.bsky.social tinyurl.com/2s426rhw
BREAKING: WE WON!!! 💥 💥 💥 Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment. Full ruling here:
Findings of Fact & Conclusions of Law – #261 in American Association of University Professors v. Rubio (D. Mass., 1:25-cv-10685) – CourtListener.com
Judge William G. Young: ORDER entered. FINDINGS OF FACT AND RULINGS OF LAW, PURSUANT TO FED. R. CIV. P. 52(A)(Sonnenberg, Elizabeth) (Additional attachment(s) added on 9/30/2025: # 1 Main Document) (J...
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Come workshop your academic writing into public pedagogy with Decoteau Irby & me on Sat at 9:20! #WriteforthePeople #DoingtheWork #ResearchMatters
University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA)@ucea-leadership.bsky.social · 10mo ago✏️ Level up your public advocacy skills—from Op-Eds to podcasts—at these interactive workshops! Multiple workshops await at #UCEA25. 🔗: www.ucea-convention.... #LeadershipMatters @monibyrne @UCEAGSC
Honored to be invited to such a probing & engaging conversation! #DoingtheWork
A Public Affair@apublicaffair.bsky.social · 10mo ago🎙️A new book by @prof-ishimaru.bsky.social and Dr. Decoteau Irby looks at the outcomes of equity initiatives in public schools. They join us to discuss how educators can do equity work at a time of increased attacks on DEI and education more generally. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/standing-up-...
Happy Democracy Day! Looking forward to seeing you the day after to keep #DoingtheWork!
Teachers College Press@tcpress.bsky.social · 10mo agoJoin us this week, 11/5, for a free webinar with editors Decoteau Irby and @prof-ishimaru.bsky.social about their new book! Come for real-world insights, research-based strategies, and practical tools for making P–12 education more equitable and just ⬇️ RSVP: teacherscollege.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Join Dr. Decoteau Irby and Dr. @prof-ishimaru.bsky.social for critical conversations on sustaining justice-focused educational change in the face of subtle resistance and the current anti-DEI backlash. #DoingTheWork #EquityLeadership (1/5)
Looking forward to being in conversation about the book w/peeps near and far!
Coriolis@coriolisco.bsky.social · 11mo agoJoin Dr. Decoteau Irby and Dr. @prof-ishimaru.bsky.social for critical conversations on sustaining justice-focused educational change in the face of subtle resistance and the current anti-DEI backlash. #DoingTheWork #EquityLeadership (1/5)
Happy publication day to Professors Decoteau Irby and @prof-ishimaru.bsky.social! Their book, "Doing the Work of Equity Leadership for Justice and Systems Change," by @tcpress.bsky.social, is now available. #AnnIshimaru #DecoteauIrby #DoingTheWorkOfEquityLeadershipForSystemsChangeAndJustice (1/5)
For the record. My posts were not even about Kirk directly, but about America's apathy towards political violence, and the coddling of white male shooters and hate peddlers. I was fired because I mentioned race: white men and violence-- that was my "gross misconduct."
“Harvard quietly ended its Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program in May — shuttering a more than 50-year-old initiative to encourage minority high school students to apply … The UMRP was not involved in making admissions decisions.” www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Harvard Ends Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program as Trump Targets Race in Admissions | News | The Harvard Crimson
By ending the minority recruitment program in May, Harvard shuttered a more than 50-year-old initiative to encourage minority high school students to apply.
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My kid: What’s peach cobbler? Me: (gasp in Georgia-childhood-mom-failure-horror, frantically make some) Biscuits aren’t as good as I’ve had or remember in GA but the WA peaches are outstanding! #WAPeach
What’s keeping me going today: MS principal: No backpacks btwn classes - leave them in locker & carry stuff to class. Kids: Ok we’ll use totes instead. Principal: No totes either. Kids: Fine, we’ll use: garbage bags, Xbox boxes, Home Depot buckets, garbage cans, IKEA bags! 😂🤣😜
a young boy is dancing in a living room with a lamp and a vase of flowers in the background
Alt: a young boy is putting a garbage bag over his shoulder in a living room with a lamp and a vase of flowers in the background
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UPDATE: Organizers created a letter for education scholars, practitioners, and students to sign to stand up to Harvard Ed Publishing about their censorship of Palestine. Here's the article about it and next is a link to read, sign & share the letter: www.theguardian.com/education/20...
‘Censorship’: over 115 scholars condemn cancellation of Harvard journal issue on Palestine
In an open letter, writers denounced abrupt scrapping of a Harvard Educational Review issue dedicated to Palestine
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Septima P. Snark@drsubini.blacksky.app · last yr.As an education scholar, the Harvard Ed Review is seen as one of the premiere journals to publish. Hearing Harvard censored invited scholars writing about Palestine is heartbreaking for the authors & editors trying to name the genocide, scholasticide & the dangers of teaching about Palestine.
Today #ICE and Border Patrol descended on the plaza of the Japanese American Nat'l Museum. The very spot where Japanese Americans, including my family, were rounded up and sent to concentration camps with no due process in 1942. The community wasn't having it. Read JANM's statement bit.ly/4oDsjng
“The most powerful, well-heeled institutions of higher education in this country are cutting deals with the Trump administration that undermine the future of higher education.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President #DefendHigherEd
Thousands Ask Harvard Not to ‘Give in’ and Pay Fine to Trump
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This thoughtful review by @shannapeeples.bsky.social provides a vital reminder of the hope we must recapture -- hope we felt while learning about these wonderful Schools of Opportunity. @prof-ishimaru.bsky.social @katesomerville.bsky.social @michellevalladares.bsky.social @wileyke.bsky.social
Teachers College Record@tcrecord.bsky.social · last yr.In their new volume the editors "offer “existence proofs” (p. 193) that schools can successfully pursue equity despite formidable obstacles." Read Dr. @shannapeeples.bsky.social's review here: buff.ly/WMnLQLw @nepc.bsky.social @tcpress.bsky.social
