Speaker

Featured Speaker

Future of Learning Summit

Vinson was selected to be a featured speaker at the inaugural Future of Learning Summit 2019 hosted by the SJSU Lurie College of Education. The Future of Learning was an opportunity for educators, faculty members, community leaders, and students to engage in dialogue. Audience members and speakers shared their vision for the future of learning and education. Listen to Vinson discuss personal adversity, caring educators, and more!

Panelist

Recent Invited Panel Talks

Bold Conversation: Engaging Multiple Perspective - November 2021 Silicon Valley Education Foundation

Engaging Students in Digital Transformation - October 2021 2021 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference

Student Affairs Fall Institute Student Panel - October 2021 San José State University

Being a Student Leader Panel: Developing and Practicing Your Skill Set - October 2021 2021 Spartan Leadership and Career Conference

Spartan East Side Promise Scholarship Awards - September 2021 East Side Education Foundation

Youth Leadership Academy (YLA): Identity & Civic Engagement Panel - July 2021 Asian Pacific American Leadership Institute (APALI)

Silicon Valley Education Foundation

#BoldConversations The Third Condition: Engaging Multiple Perspectives

In this session, we are discussing "The Third Condition: Engaging Multiple Perspectives". The Third Condition will normalize the social construction of knowledge, thus engaging multiple racial points of view in order to surface critical perspective. This concept acknowledges the process through which racial meaning is inherited, interpreted, and passed on from one generation to the next.

East Side Education Foundation

2021 Spartan East Side Promise (SESP) Scholarship Award Ceremony

Learn more about the 2021 SESP Scholarship recipients and their educational journeys. These 26 San José State University students participated in the Spartan East Side Promise, a program of the East Side Education Foundation, offering support and mentorship to SJSU students who graduated from schools in the East Side Union High School District.

Spartan East Side Promise Program

2021 ESUHSD Spartan Summer Program

The ESUHSD Spartan Summer Program is a series of virtual sessions to help SESP students with the transition from high school to college at SJSU. Learn more from SESP Peer Mentors Vinson Vu and Jasmine Kaur about the Growth Pledge and different resources that SESP has to offer students! Vinson and Jasmine also shares their Life as a Spartan experiences.

Connie L. Lurie College of Education

Social Justice Film Festival Fall 2020 Film Festival Winners

We spoke with our winning filmmakers - Natalie, Jose, and Vinson - to learn more about what motivated them to create their films and what their future plans for advocating for social justice are. Watch the interview with them above and watch their individual films.

Spartan East Side Promise Program

Student Outreach & Recruitment and Spartan East Side Promise Program Featured on CNBC

Colleges welcoming sophomores and freshman to campus for the first timeColleges are dealing with a new dilemma: Having to orient two new classes at the same time, since last year's 'virtual class' is on campus for the first time. CNBC's Scott Cohn joins The News with Shepard Smith to report.

Co-Host and Moderator

Emancipatory Education Now

Emancipatory Education Now is a student-led initiative at the SJSU Lurie College of Education that examines what emancipatory education – the critical evaluation of the systems and structures of oppression that maintain the status quo in our educational institutions – looks like in today’s society and advocates for the expansion of emancipatory education research, policies, and practices.

Check out more episodes from the Fall 2020 series below!

Episode 6

Cultivating Belonging and Creating Safe Spaces

In this episode, Vinson leads a dialogue with Anne, Gabi, Jackie, and Leslye as they dive deeper into how schools and communities can create a safe and supportive school environment with a focus on LGBTQ+ youth.

Episode 1 | Meet the Co-Hosts

Episode 2 | The Benefits of Ethnic Studies

Episode 3 | California Proposition 16

Episode 4 | Cultures of Power in the Classroom

Episode 5 | Restorative Approaches that Decolonize Education

Episode 7 | Now What?

Emancipatory Education Speaker Series

What should education look like post-COVID? How do we get there?

Many are looking forward to a time when we can go back to “normal” in education; however, that "normal" wasn't working for too many of our children, youth, families and communities. Join us for a series of live, online conversations with nationally recognized speakers and emerging voices who will share their visions for post-COVID education through an emancipatory lens and to identify steps to enact their visions.

Check out the speaker series seminars that Vinson co-moderated the Q&A sessions for with Dr. Gloria Ladson-Billings, Dr. Jonathan Rosa, Sec. John King and Dr. Leslie Gonzales.