Rightful presence is a foundational construct for building systemic equity and justice in education. One of its guiding principles is attending to systemic power dynamics to ensure educational policies and practices are equitable and just for students across the intersections of race, ability, ethnicity, gender identity, religion (or spiritual preference), economic status, sexual orientation, nation of origin, age, and immigration status (SWIFT Education Center, 2025). That is, school systems must work to ensure that those who are closest to their systemic inequities are afforded the right to reauthor rights in ways that co-create a culture of belonging and justice. This brief explains what it means to reauthor rights, how this may occur, and several contrasting examples of systems that extend rights and systems in which those rights are reauthored.