Keynote Speaker Eric (Rico) Gutstein teaches mathematics education at the University of Illinois-Chicago. His interests include teaching mathematics for social justice, Freirean approaches to teaching and learning, and urban education. He has taught middle and high school mathematics. Rico is a founding member of Teachers for Social Justice (Chicago) and is active in social movements. He is the author of Reading and Writing the World with Mathematics: Toward a Pedagogy for Social Justice (Routledge, 2006) and an editor of Rethinking Mathematics: Teaching Social Justice by the Numbers.
