News about the lab

The Future is Here: Historical Signals in Education Research

Dr. Maisha T. Winn’s AERA 2026 Presidential Address.

The Politics of Possibility: Coalition Building and Educational Advocacy for the Social Good

Conversation with Angela Glover Blackwell, Maisha T. Winn, and David Stovall

Ground Control Parenting Podcast with Maisha T. Winn and Carol Sutton: “Parent like a Futurist”

When everything feels unstable, how do we raise our children to be hopeful and prepared for a future we cannot fully see? In this episode Dr. Maisha T. Winn speaks with Carol Sutton Lewis, founder of Ground Control Parenting, about parenting like a futurist.

January 2026: Education Futurities: Cultivating Hope through Precarity

A conversation with AERA President Maisha Winn and Dean Shabnam Koirala-Azad at University of San Francisco

SXSW EDU: Strategy in the Times of Chaos: Imagining Futures of Education

In this conversation Dr. Maisha Winn and Marina Gorbis will share foresight techniques for imagining radically different futures and detecting signals of reinvention and scholarship on how communities depicted as under-resourced create practices and institutions of their own—as examples for building more just and equitable futures

Accelerate EdTech Impact presentation: When history drives the future

Dr. Winn’s 2026 AERA Presidential Program Theme

Celebrating Leading Women in Higher Education

Diverse Issues in Higher Education Presents 40 Women in Academe Making A Difference

Black Institutions in the United States

An interview with Maisha Winn on Books & Ideas