As the organizers of the MENACASEA2025 Symposium, we are committed to anti-racism and anti-colonialism in our scholarship and in our performance and educational practices. We respect the communities with which we collaborate as researchers, educators, mentors, students, and colleagues. This work is ongoing, and we strive to deepen our understanding of how to reckon honestly with the past as well as with our own intellectual and ethical positions in the present.