There is much talk internationally about providing socially just education within subaltern communities. Yet, often the practices within educational institutions perpetuate the coloniality of power and structures of inequality that fail to support decolonizing pedagogical practices. Dr Antonia Darder’s presentation draws on the work of Brazilian philosopher and author of Pedagogy of the Oppressed (published 50 years ago in its first Portuguese edition), Paulo Freire, to consider a set of personal and political principles that can assist us to enact educational leadership approaches founded on an ethics of liberation that can promote cognitive justice and community empowerment.