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Welcome to the 19th annual Allied Media Conference!

Browse all 250+ sessions below on our online schedule. Please note: bookmarking a session on our online schedule does not guarantee you a place in the session. All sessions are first come first serve. 
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Thursday, June 15
 

9:30am EDT

The Boggs School Parade
Do you wonder what children who attend The James and Grace Lee Boggs School learn and want to share? Visit the 4th annual Boggs School parade where students celebrate their knowledge and visions for the future of Detroit. Our school community will be fired up as we take to the streets with outrageous costumes, cheers and chants, and powerful messages of hope and love. Parade observers will leave feeling confident that our future is in good hands and inspired by our young leaders.

Meet at the Campus Shuttle Stop located at Anthony Wayne and Kirby if you would like to attend this firld trip.

Presenters
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Marisol Teachworth

The James and Grace Lee Boggs School
Marisol is the Programming Director at The Boggs School. She coordinates all programming at the school, including the after-school program, Place-Based Education alignment with teachers, and special events. She offers expertise in youth development, grant writing, teaching, community... Read More →




Thursday June 15, 2017 9:30am - 10:30am EDT
Shuttle Stop: Anthony Wayne & Kirby
  Tour/Field Trip
 
Friday, June 16
 

11:00am EDT

Detroit Comix Party: Something from Nothing
Comix is the most direct route to self-expression. We want to celebrate the incredible potential of wild, intimate, and spectacularly bizarre work that self-publishing can quickly fertilize and spread. We will inspect examples of pure and direct human expression through comix and zines, discuss the decreasing cost of production, and then create our own comix to take home and copy into infinity.

Presenters
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Kevin Eckert

Kevin Eckert is a multimedia artist known for his illustration, design, and video work in the Metro Detroit area. As an award-winning instructor, he has taught animation and video production classes at Living Arts, Community Media Network Television, and the Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit. He has exhibited successfully at many comix and small press expos throughout the midwest over the last seven years., Detroit Comix Party
Kevin Eckert is a multimedia artist known for his illustration, design, and video work in the Metro Detroit area. As an award-winning instructor, he has taught animation and video production classes at Living Arts, Community Media Network Television, and the Contemporary Art Institute... Read More →


Friday June 16, 2017 11:00am - 12:30pm EDT
Student Center: Room 137
  Hands-on Session

11:00am EDT

Oral History 101 for Organizers
This workshop aims to introduce community organizers to oral history methods. We will explore formal oral history methods, how to conduct oral history interviews, and examine what oral history has to offer to social movements and community organizers. Throughout, we will consider how to incorporate anti-oppression principles into activist oral history projects.

Presenters
AO

Amaka Okechukwu

Groundswell: Oral History for Social Change
Amaka Okechukwu is a scholar-activist based in Brooklyn, NY. Her scholarly and teaching interests include social movements, Black politics, intersectionality, and public humanities. She has engaged in community-based work with Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, Brooklyn Movement Center... Read More →
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Amy Starecheski

Columbia University Oral History MA Program
Amy Starecheski, PhD, is a cultural anthropologist and oral historian who co-directs the Oral History MA Program at Columbia University. She is a member of the Core Working Group for Groundswell: Oral History for Social Change. In 2016 she was awarded the Sapiens-Allegra “Will the... Read More →


Friday June 16, 2017 11:00am - 12:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 117
  Hands-on Session

11:00am EDT

Sustainable Building Solutions for Climate Change
Sustainable building methods could pave the way for us to live more intentionally in accordance with the planet. We will learn about these methods by examining the Earthship building techniques utilized in the Sa-K-La-K-Wel Community Center in Haiti. Join us as we explore how these methods can be tailored to your community, providing living solutions by building sustainably. Participants will walk away with understanding how these methods can be applied to their communities and the opportunity to get more hands on should their curiosity lead them.

Presenters
avatar for Oja (o-jah)

Oja (o-jah)

Organizer & Producer, ACD Media
Oja has been traveling back and forth to Haiti since 2010. In 2013 he attended the Earthship Academy and learned how to build fully-sustainable off-grid structures. The structures solve many climate issues offering water catchment methods, alternative energy sources, and indoor and... Read More →


Friday June 16, 2017 11:00am - 12:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 118
  Hands-on Session

11:00am EDT

Creating Nuanced Stories of Communities of Color
The Sons & Brothers’ portrait series features original art by young artists of color and aims to honor change makers who fight against injustice. Participants will learn about the use of visual art as a tool for accessible storytelling and will leave with tools to share the nuanced stories of communities of color and uplift the work of community members.

Presenters
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Nahid Ebrahimi

SOZE/Sons and Brothers
Nahid Ebrahimi was born and raised in Oakland, CA and is the daughter of an Iranian immigrant and a Black American from Louisiana. She has been committed to social justice and elevating youth power since her work as a youth organizer began at the early age of 13. Through her work... Read More →
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Ozi Uduma

Ozi Uduma is a Researcher / Strategist for the Soze Agency and with Sons and Brothers, Sons & Brothers / The Soze Agency
Determined. Day-dreamer. Focused Ozi Uduma was born and raised in Detroit, by way of Nigerian parentage. Ozi is a former Health Equity Fellow with The California Endowment and the Greenlining Institute, where she focused on trauma informed practices and the ways in which trauma... Read More →


Friday June 16, 2017 11:00am - 12:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 129
  Panel-Presentation

11:00am EDT

Humanizing Schooling in Detroit
Learn how People in Education (PIE) is humanizing schooling in Detroit. Educators, students, and media artists from PIE will share their lessons and experiences working in schools in Detroit. Starting off with a lively debate, we will share our media projects including the Out-of-School Project and our work within schools. Participants will leave with practices and resources for thinking about community issues in their classrooms.

Presenters
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Issra Killawi

People in Education
Issra is a fashion design major at Wayne State University and the "Youth Director" at "MAS youth Detroit". Issra is also apart of the founding fellow of Detroit Hearts and Minds,a youth development program that provides the fellows with both the skills and resources they need to launch... Read More →


Friday June 16, 2017 11:00am - 12:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 106
  Panel-Presentation

12:45pm EDT

Alternative Teaching Practice: FemTechNet
FemTechNet creates feminist strategies for alternative learning across digital networks. We will share strategies for teaching gender and technology while building an inclusive feminist community for scholars, artists and activist educators. Participants will be introduced to FemTechNet’s collaborative pedagogy, including ‘feminist mapping’, and 'alternative character design' workshops. Participants will learn to re-shape teaching, learning, and knowledge production and will be invited to join the FTN network!

Presenters
avatar for Ivette Bayo-Urban

Ivette Bayo-Urban

As an educator-scholar and doctoral candidate at the University of Washington’s Information School, I study people and their relationships with technology. I am interested in how the social systems and technical systems operate in our daily lives, I recognize that technology is... Read More →
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Marla Jaksch

Associate Professor of Women's & Gender Studies, Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at The College of New Jersey
Dr. Marla Jaksch is an associate professor in the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department, with affiliate appointments in the African American Studies Department and the International Studies Program's Africa concentration at The College of New Jersey. Her research interests... Read More →
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Heide Solbrig

Heide Solbrig
Heide Solbrig, (MFA, Ph.D) is a media artist & scholar, filmmaker, and illustrator, and runs the Boston Comics Workspace in Somerville, Mass. She writes independent and experimental comics, makes films and collaborates on public media projects. She is the DOCC (Distributed Online... Read More →


Friday June 16, 2017 12:45pm - 1:45pm EDT
State Hall: Room 127
  Hands-on Session

12:45pm EDT

Creating All-Black Spaces
We will discuss the challenges and benefits to creating, maintaining and attending all-Black spaces. A conversation about all-Black spaces necessitates a conversation about what "Black" is and if it is necessary. Participants will leave with a wider and deeper understanding of the myriad experiences that fall under the "Black experience", a list of best practices for creating all-Black spaces and the outline of a collective statement.

Presenters
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Kandace Montgomery

Kandace Montgomery (She/They) is a Black queer, feminist, organizer and strategist, living out the legacy of her ancestors. She is a steering committee member for the BLM Minneapolis chapter and staff organizer with the BLM Network. Kandace graduated from the UMASS Amherst with a... Read More →
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Miski Noor

Communications Strategist, Black Lives Matter Global Network
Miski Noor (They) is an organizer and writer based in Minneapolis, MN where they work as a Communications Strategist for the Black Lives Matter Global Network & a leader with Black Visions Collective, the local BLM chapter. They are a graduate of the University of MN where they studied... Read More →
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Brianna Wilson

unaffiliated
Brianna/brilyahnt (They/she) is an artist, youth worker, organizer and former radio host from Minneapolis, MN with a vested interest in history, media and documentation as a form of resistance. They are co-founder and former member of Black Lives Matter Minneapolis and creator of... Read More →


Friday June 16, 2017 12:45pm - 1:45pm EDT
State Hall: Room 117
  Hands-on Session

12:45pm EDT

Community Care Lunch Meet-Up
Join us for a community style care meet-up. We will offer ear (NADA) acupuncture, Reiki and bodywork. The meet-up will be first come, first served – no sign-up necessary. The space is welcoming of all bodies, identities, abilities, and backgrounds.

Presenters
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Chiara Francesca

Chiara Francesca is a queer disabled artist, writer, organizer, acupuncturist, former teen mother, first-gen college grad, and Italian immigrant to the occupied Indigenous territories currently known as the United States. Chiara has been involved in movements for justice for over... Read More →


Friday June 16, 2017 12:45pm - 1:45pm EDT
Student Center: Room 020
  Mealtime Meetup

12:45pm EDT

Detroit UNESCO City of Design conversation
Join us for lunch as we answer all your questions about Detroit's UNESCO City of Design designation, including:

-What is UNESCO?
-How and why did Detroit join the UNESCO Creative Cities Network?
-What makes Detroit a city of design?
-What has happened as a result of the designation?
-What are the future plans for the designation?
-Who does this designation impact?
-How can I get involved?

And anything else you're curious about! We'll do our best to answer your questions and look forward to hearing your ideas.

Presenters
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Ellie Schneider

Detroit Creative Corridor Center
Ellie Schneider is a Detroiter, Lawyer, and Director of Advocacy and Operations at Detroit Creative Corridor Center. Ellie represents Detroit in the UNESCO Creative Cities Network.


Friday June 16, 2017 12:45pm - 1:45pm EDT
State Hall: Room 118
  Mealtime Meetup

12:45pm EDT

Sarma: Diaspora of the Caucasus and Middle East
This is a placemaking lunch session for people of the caucasus and middle east, and their friends. Our aim is to break sociopolitical barriers through storytelling, familial cuisine and new friendships. Vegetarian sarma will be provided. (radical kitchen space)

Presenters
avatar for Julién Godman

Julién Godman

Founder, Tonic & Juice
Julién Godman is an Armenian-American born in Detroit and raised on the road - following his mother's scholastic and nomadic journey. Since 2007, Julien has been actively involved in Detroit's social, civic, culinary and artistic communities. Today, he is a food and culture blogger/writer... Read More →
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Mary Isaac

Porch Cat & Son
Mary Isaac was born in Flint but spent the last decade migrating around Michigan. Finally settling in Hamtramck, she found a unique cultural niche that reminds her of home. Mary grew up in an Assyrian-American household with family largely hailing from northern Iran. She is deeply... Read More →


Friday June 16, 2017 12:45pm - 1:45pm EDT
State Hall: Room 114
  Mealtime Meetup

12:45pm EDT

Pro Heaux: Sex Positivity From the Ground Up
Sex positivity is becoming mainstream, but how do we practice self-care to stay safe during our heaux escapades? This workshop seeks to tap the unstoppable wisdom of heauxs across age/gender/ability/body size/class/race/sexuality, while acknowledging how systemic power and social constructs inform how different heauxs are perceived. We will generate a master list of self-care mindsets and practices that participants can use and share with their communities. Get into it!

Presenters
GC

golden collier

golden collier is a radical facilitator and multidisciplinary artist living in Philadelphia, PA. A double virgo, they deeply enjoy supporting their communities through creative and organizational work. They are a member of Soapbox Community Printshop back home, and in their spare... Read More →


Friday June 16, 2017 12:45pm - 1:45pm EDT
State Hall: Room 113
  Strategy Session

2:00pm EDT

Police Brutality Across Borders: FTP and the Missing 43
What is the experience of police violence across borders? Join us as we screen Until We Find You, a documentary on the disappearance of the 43 Ayotzinapa students by the Mexican police and the Forced Trajectory Project, a documentary project showcasing the narratives of families affected by U.S. police violence. We will partake in a panel featuring the filmmakers Emily Pederson and Vanissa W. Chan. The panel will juxtapose the projects and provide analysis for state violence domestically and abroad.

Presenters

Friday June 16, 2017 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 128
  Film Screening-Performance

2:00pm EDT

Digital Timelines for Movement Organizing
How do our stories intersect with the histories and media representations of political struggles over immigration, policing, transgender rights or media policy? In this political climate, it's crucial to place our organizing work and our stories in historical context and challenge dominant narratives. Join us to create a digital timeline and learn how our web-based tool can support your organizing work!

Presenters
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Jose Benitez

Global Action Project
Jose is a Community Media in Action Fellow with Global Action Project. He is also a youth organizer with Immigration Movement International in Corona, Queens, NYC, and an artist working with Mobile Print Power, a grassroots arts collective using mobile silkscreening to open up di... Read More →
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Carlos Pareja

Media History Timeline Coordinator, Global Action Project
Carlos Pareja is Media History Timeline Coordinator with Global Action Project. He is a longtime media educator, digital storyteller and activist who fights to change narratives, public policy and our world.
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Mahira Raihan

Desis Rising Up and Moving
Mahira is the coordinator of Moving Art, the youth arts and organizing program of Desis Rising Up and Moving (DRUM). She is also an alum of Global Action Project’s Youth Breaking Borders and Community Media in Action programs.


Friday June 16, 2017 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 118
  Hands-on Session

2:00pm EDT

Encrypt Your Footage, Secure Your Movement
Mediamakers rely on audio and visual equipment to tell complex and often politically charged stories. Producing creative material in political environments, however, carries digital and operational risks along with it. So, how can we prevent our greatest assets from becoming a critical vulnerability? Journalists, filmmakers, photographers, and activists are encouraged to join us as we discuss the challenges associated with using technology for political and artistic ends, and workshop security tools and strategies we can use to address these challenges.

Presenters
avatar for Harlo Holmes

Harlo Holmes

Director of Digital Security, Freedom of the Press Foundation
Harlo Holmes is the Director of Digital Security at Freedom of the Press Foundation. She strives to help individual journalists in various media organisations become confident and effective in securing their communications within their newsrooms, with their sources, and with the public... Read More →
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Olivia Martin

Deputy Director of Digital Security, Freedom of the Press Foundation
Olivia Martin is a Digital Security Fellow at Freedom of the Press Foundation. At FPF, she focuses on researching and delivering digital security trainings to journalists, activists, and human rights defenders. She has spent years in newsrooms as a designer and editor with new media... Read More →


Friday June 16, 2017 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 131
  Hands-on Session

2:00pm EDT

Get Ready Stay Ready Skillshare (Part 1)
This skillshare is an extension of an ongoing practice in Detroit where community members share their expertise in community preparedness. Stations will feature hands-on activities like: food preservation, 'bug out bag' making, emergency medicine, swapping, family planning and much more. Participants will share their own resiliency stories and practices, and leave with an extended toolkit for their own preparedness.

Presenters
avatar for Onyx Ashanti

Onyx Ashanti

what we can not say, we can not do. Is Music truly a multidimensional language? can a mind be self designed? Sonocyberneticist Onyx Ashanti shares his research and questions.
avatar for Halima Cassells

Halima Cassells

Halima Cassells is Detroit-based artist/community advocate who traverses many diverse circles in Detroit. Halima designs spaces for authentic engagement that cultivate ideas of new economy. Halima works as an independent artist and assumes leadership roles at Incite Focus Fab Lab... Read More →
avatar for B. Anthony Holley

B. Anthony Holley

B. Anthony Holley is a community organizer, entrepreneur, cooperative developer, emergency preparedness educator born and raised in Detroit. Through his work with Conscious Community Cooperative ThinkTank members have produced innumerable community forums and projects on self-sufficiency... Read More →
avatar for Mama Ravin

Mama Ravin

Ravin Regina Lawson is an herbalist, health coach, former model, and life-long vegetarian affectionately known as Mama Ravin. She leads her famous Herbal Walk & Talks and Chat n Chews throughout the city educating community on edible and medicinal herbs in our very own backyard... Read More →
avatar for Spirit Traveler

Spirit Traveler

Spirit Traveler a native-born Detroiter has been working in service for her community many years. Mother of 10 awesome children and grandmother of 16 fabulous grandchildren. Known in the community as a Midwife, Doula, Birth Educator, and Holistic Healer. She uses her gifts as the... Read More →


Friday June 16, 2017 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 137

2:00pm EDT

Holding Space Part 1: Strategies for Anti Oppressive Facilitation
How can facilitators hold space in ways that are truly anti-oppressive? Explore strategies for facilitation that center the needs of Black, Brown and Indigenous people, disabled people, LGBTQ+ folks, survivors and more. We'll examine how various approaches and activities can build solidarity and safety in group settings. We'll deepen our existing skills and leave with shiny, effective new tools for liberatory facilitation. This is part one of a two-part series.

Presenters
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Autumn Brown

Autumn works as a facilitator, political educator, trainer and consultant in service of movement building and social change. Over the years, she has facilitated with community and movement organizations in a wide variety of fields, including reproductive justice, education, urban planning, food and environmental justice, anti-violence, green entrepreneurship, alternative transportation, radical social change, and independent media. Her focus as a facilitator is community and organizational transformation through the implementation of egalitarian decision-making practices and anti-racist, anti-oppressive analyses. Her motivating principle is that we cannot create sustainable and transformative social change without using transformative models for doing the work. Autumn utilizes a popular education and emergent design methodology in her client work, while also rooting in black, brown, and indigenous traditions and histories., AORTA
Autumn Brown is a mother, organizer, science fiction author, singer, and facilitator who grounds her work in healing from the trauma of oppression. Autumn formerly served as the Executive Director of both RECLAIM!, and of the Central Minnesota Sustainability Project. She is now a... Read More →
avatar for Maryse Mitchell-Brody

Maryse Mitchell-Brody

self
Maryse Mitchell-Brody is a white, Jewish, queer, and trans facilitator, fundraiser, organizer, and radical social worker living on Lenape land. They've been working for healing justice, sex worker rights, racial justice, economic justice, and LGBTQI+ liberation in their hometown of... Read More →


Friday June 16, 2017 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 101
  Hands-on Session

2:00pm EDT

Interactive Streets: Biking and Placemaking
What kind of social, cultural, and/or political impact do you want to make through biking? Partnering with Detroit East Side Riders, we explore how bikes can be tools that facilitate interaction. We will explore an aspect of the encounter between cyclists and the city through a demo on bike safety, and discuss the concept of bicycle justice. We will question the scale and type of interactions that biking can facilitate and loosely prototype ideas in small groups. Participants will walk away with a grounded understanding of bike safety and new ideas on how to activate bikes as media.

Presenters
JJ

John Jones III

East Side Riders Bike Club
John founded the East Side Riders Bike Club, an all-volunteer, grassroots bicycle club founded in 2008 in Watts, CA. The purpose of East Side Riders is to prevent youth from joining gangs and/or taking drugs, but also engage youth who have a desire to enrich the community through... Read More →
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Reina Imagawa

ArtCenter College of Design
Reina is a graduate student studying Media Design Practices at ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, CA. Her practice focuses on using narratives and storytelling techniques to explore the interplay between spaces, humans and media. Her questions revolve around her background in... Read More →


Friday June 16, 2017 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
Student Center: Hilberry C
  Hands-on Session

2:00pm EDT

Your Problems Are Relevant
What if research and data could be used as a tool for community organizing? Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) is designed to build community and gather data. We will train participants on how to conduct YPAR, and share some of our own experiences. Participants will leave knowing how to use YPAR to educate others and make changes in their own communities.

Presenters
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Sharia Cook

Northside Research Team
Born in Minneapolis, and a member of the Northside Research Team.
DR

De’Arreon Robinson

Youthprise
Born in Minneapolis, and facilitator of the Northside Research Team.
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Tyson Trueblood

Northside Research Team
Born in Minneapolis, and a Member of the Northside Research Team


Friday June 16, 2017 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 117
  Hands-on Session

2:00pm EDT

Pathways for Youth Voice in Public Media
This year KQED Learning invited students from the SF Bay Area to join KQED’s first Youth Advisory Board to help shape tools for growing youth civic participation and digital literacy. Our session will explore the work of the board in its effort to center younger, more diverse voices. We will hear from members and staff of KQED’s inaugural board about lessons learned from the launch of KQED Learning’s first youth-facing YouTube series, Above the Noise. Participants will leave with strategies for infusing and amplifying youth voice into the work of adult-led, legacy media organizations.

Presenters
CI

Chanelle Ignant

Chanelle Ignant is KQED’s youth media specialist. She has worked with various Bay Area youth organizations to promote media literacy and skill building, and is an independent media maker., KQED - Public Media for Northern California
Chanelle Ignant is the Youth Participation Coordinator for KQED Learning. She has worked with various Bay Area youth media organizations and is an independent media maker.
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Ariana Proehl

KQED - Public Media for Northern California


Friday June 16, 2017 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 135
  Panel-Presentation

2:00pm EDT

From Growing Our Economy to Growing Our Souls Tour Part 1
In a time of revolution and counter-revolution, the Boggs Center's tour of the eastside of Detroit explores history in the context of the rise and fall of the economic "American Dream" and the birth of visionary organizing and resistance. We will visit the Packard Plant, Poletown, urban gardens, The Boggs School, CanArts and The Heidelberg Project. Participants will leave with a deeper understanding of how to think historically and dialectically as we work towards the next american revolution.

Presenters
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Rich Feldman

Richard Feldmn has been active since. His involvement in the 1960s. He has worked with James and Grace Boggs for more than. ‘40 years. Rich worked on ford assembly line for more than 20 years, local. Union official. And worked on international staff of UAW. Rich I had a decades long commitment to inclusion and disability justice., James and Grace Lee Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership
Rich Feldman has had the privilege of working with James and Grace Boggs for more than 40 years. He was raised in Brooklyn, active in the 1960s in SDS at U Michigan. Rich has been married for more than 35 years and has two children, Micah and Emma. Our family journey has also brought... Read More →


Friday June 16, 2017 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
Shuttle Stop: Anthony Wayne & Kirby
  Tour/Field Trip

4:00pm EDT

Get Ready Stay Ready Skillshare (Part 2)
This skillshare is an extension of an ongoing practice in Detroit where community members share their expertise in community preparedness. Stations will feature hands-on activities like: food preservation, 'bug out bag' making, emergency medicine, swapping, family planning and much more. Participants will share their own resiliency stories and practices, and leave with an extended toolkit for their own preparedness.

Presenters
avatar for Onyx Ashanti

Onyx Ashanti

what we can not say, we can not do. Is Music truly a multidimensional language? can a mind be self designed? Sonocyberneticist Onyx Ashanti shares his research and questions.
avatar for Halima Cassells

Halima Cassells

Halima Cassells is Detroit-based artist/community advocate who traverses many diverse circles in Detroit. Halima designs spaces for authentic engagement that cultivate ideas of new economy. Halima works as an independent artist and assumes leadership roles at Incite Focus Fab Lab... Read More →
avatar for B. Anthony Holley

B. Anthony Holley

B. Anthony Holley is a community organizer, entrepreneur, cooperative developer, emergency preparedness educator born and raised in Detroit. Through his work with Conscious Community Cooperative ThinkTank members have produced innumerable community forums and projects on self-sufficiency... Read More →
avatar for Mama Ravin

Mama Ravin

Ravin Regina Lawson is an herbalist, health coach, former model, and life-long vegetarian affectionately known as Mama Ravin. She leads her famous Herbal Walk & Talks and Chat n Chews throughout the city educating community on edible and medicinal herbs in our very own backyard... Read More →
avatar for Spirit Traveler

Spirit Traveler

Spirit Traveler a native-born Detroiter has been working in service for her community many years. Mother of 10 awesome children and grandmother of 16 fabulous grandchildren. Known in the community as a Midwife, Doula, Birth Educator, and Holistic Healer. She uses her gifts as the... Read More →


Friday June 16, 2017 4:00pm - 5:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 137

4:00pm EDT

Holding Space Part 2: Facilitating Collective Self-Governance
How can facilitators skillfully support practices of collective governance? Building on Part I, we will equip participants with the skills for facilitating consensus decision-making as a tool for self-governance. Using role plays and real examples to harness the group’s wisdom, we’ll consider options for interrupting hidden hierarchies, transforming conflicts, and creating shared power. Folks will leave with a toolkit to support healthy and just group dynamics, and long-term investment in organizing.

Presenters
AB

Autumn Brown

Autumn works as a facilitator, political educator, trainer and consultant in service of movement building and social change. Over the years, she has facilitated with community and movement organizations in a wide variety of fields, including reproductive justice, education, urban planning, food and environmental justice, anti-violence, green entrepreneurship, alternative transportation, radical social change, and independent media. Her focus as a facilitator is community and organizational transformation through the implementation of egalitarian decision-making practices and anti-racist, anti-oppressive analyses. Her motivating principle is that we cannot create sustainable and transformative social change without using transformative models for doing the work. Autumn utilizes a popular education and emergent design methodology in her client work, while also rooting in black, brown, and indigenous traditions and histories., AORTA
Autumn Brown is a mother, organizer, science fiction author, singer, and facilitator who grounds her work in healing from the trauma of oppression. Autumn formerly served as the Executive Director of both RECLAIM!, and of the Central Minnesota Sustainability Project. She is now a... Read More →
avatar for Maryse Mitchell-Brody

Maryse Mitchell-Brody

self
Maryse Mitchell-Brody is a white, Jewish, queer, and trans facilitator, fundraiser, organizer, and radical social worker living on Lenape land. They've been working for healing justice, sex worker rights, racial justice, economic justice, and LGBTQI+ liberation in their hometown of... Read More →


Friday June 16, 2017 4:00pm - 5:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 101
  Hands-on Session

4:00pm EDT

Video for Revolution
From the Arab Spring to Ferguson, video has amplified voices and exposed human rights abuses. This session will explore how we utilize video for revolution. We’ll facilitate a discussion on how activists around the world are using video now, and provide practical tips on the right to record, filming the police and protests, basic digital and physical security, and media preservation. Participants will walk away knowing how to safely, ethically and effectively use video for evidence and advocacy.

Presenters
DK

Dia Kayyali

Program Manager, tech + advocacy, WITNESS
Dia Kayyali coordinates WITNESS’ tech + advocacy work, engaging with technology companies and working on tools and policies that help human rights advocates safely, securely and ethically document human rights abuses and expose them to the world.
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Palika Makam

Palika is Brooklyn-based media activist and the U.S. Program Coordinator at WITNESS. She has trained hundreds of activists from Palestine to Ferguson on how to use video as a tool for advocacy and change. Palika currently focuses on how data, video and storytelling can help create police accountability, expose immigration abuses and advocate for indigenous communities., WITNESS
Palika Makam is the US Program Coordinator for WITNESS. She engages activists and communities to use video to document human rights violations involving police and immigration violence, and protect the rights of LGBTQ, minority, indigenous and vulnerable communities around the country... Read More →


Friday June 16, 2017 4:00pm - 5:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 118
  Hands-on Session

4:00pm EDT

Civic Institutions and Youth Experiences
Can we design experiences in our public schools and spaces that give youth opportunities to make meaningful choices on what impacts them? In Boston, we’ve been actively engaging young people in the redesign of school food (and other daily) experiences. With regulations, costs, logistics and supply chain complexities working against us, can we creatively fight these barriers in order to support youth voice and choice? We want to chat with others thinking critically about futures designed for, with, and by youth.

Presenters
RC

Roy Chan

Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics, Boston
Roy Chan is a program director with the Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics, where he works with Boston’s institutions, communities, and citizens to improve the city’s education ecosystem. His projects to date have included increasing access to STEM education, personalizing... Read More →
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Kimberly Lucas

Civic Research Director, New Urban Mechanics
Kim’s life has centered around questions, and she brings this expertise to her work as MONUM’s Director of Civic Research. Questioning who we think of as ‘expert’ and how stakeholders identify ‘value’ are two common threads in her work.  Kim holds a BA in Psychology and... Read More →
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Max Stearns

Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics, Boston
Max is a program director for the Housing Innovation Lab within the Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics. He is passionate about designing and building tools that empower those in need. He also enjoys designing and building furniture, but can only do that as his side hustle. His... Read More →
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Jaclyn Youngblood

Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics, Boston
Jaclyn is a program director in the Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics. She focuses primarily on operations and systems prototypes, aiming to bring delight and a human touch to what can be overwhelming interactions with city agencies. Her work includes supporting non-instructional... Read More →


Friday June 16, 2017 4:00pm - 5:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 125
  Mealtime Meetup

4:00pm EDT

OpenOversight
OpenOversight is a crowdsourced, searchable database of police officers that citizens can use to file police complaints. We will explain why and how we built OpenOversight, what we have done thus far and what is coming next. Participants will walk away with an idea of how they can participate and bring OpenOversight to their city.

Presenters
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Jennifer Helsby

Lucy Parsons Labs
Jennifer Helsby (@redshiftzero) is a Ford-Mozilla fellow at the Freedom of the Press Foundation where she works on the SecureDrop anonymous whistleblowing platform. She is a co-founder of Lucy Parsons Labs and the lead developer of OpenOversight.
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Freddy Martinez

Lucy Parsons Labs
Freddy Martinez (@B_meson) is a reformed physicist who now works as a system administrator by night. Currently his focus is on police accountability and transparency while other interests include computer security, hacking and open source software. A long-time Chicagoan, his focus... Read More →


Friday June 16, 2017 4:00pm - 5:30pm EDT
Student Center: Hilberry A
  Panel-Presentation

4:00pm EDT

Numbers and Narratives
How can time-lapse animated maps, which show trends over space and time, tell stories that can influence policy, hearts, and minds? Originally focused on global datasets, Earth Timelapse is a mapping tool that can be localized for organizing communities to share information as power. Interactive layers show intersections of census, climate, and demographic data that can be useful to case-making. We’ll demo and discuss the ethics of using visualized data sets to tell stories before we dive into creating our own stories using the visualizations. Laptops useful, but not required.

Presenters
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Jessica Kaminsky

CREATE Lab at CMU
Jessica Kaminsky is en educator, a podcast producer, and a loud laugher. She manages the Fluency project at the CREATE Lab, which focuses on encouraging student-centered teaching practices and integrating meaningful, contextually relevant technology in schools. Her background is in... Read More →
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Jessica Pachuta

CMU CREATE Lab
I live at the intersection of media, technology, and education. While recovering from participating in the commercial film industry, I was asked to join the CREATE Lab at Carnegie Mellon. We question the ways that technology can be made in service of the voiceless and make the invisible... Read More →
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Randy Sargent

CREATE Lab at CMU
Randy Sargent is a researcher in Carnegie Mellon University's CREATE Lab, where he helps develop time-lapse maps of demographics, employment, climate change, pollution, resource use, and economic trends.


Friday June 16, 2017 4:00pm - 5:30pm EDT
Student Center: Room 384
  Strategy Session

4:00pm EDT

From Growing Our Economy to Growing Our Souls Tour Part 2
In a time of revolution and counter-revolution, the Boggs Center's tour of the eastside of Detroit explores history in the context of the rise and fall of the economic "American Dream" and the birth of visionary organizing and resistance. We will visit the Packard Plant, Poletown, urban gardens, The Boggs School, CanArts and The Heidelberg Project. Participants will leave with a deeper understanding of how to think historically and dialectically as we work towards the next american revolution.

Presenters
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Rich Feldman

Richard Feldmn has been active since. His involvement in the 1960s. He has worked with James and Grace Boggs for more than. ‘40 years. Rich worked on ford assembly line for more than 20 years, local. Union official. And worked on international staff of UAW. Rich I had a decades long commitment to inclusion and disability justice., James and Grace Lee Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership
Rich Feldman has had the privilege of working with James and Grace Boggs for more than 40 years. He was raised in Brooklyn, active in the 1960s in SDS at U Michigan. Rich has been married for more than 35 years and has two children, Micah and Emma. Our family journey has also brought... Read More →


Friday June 16, 2017 4:00pm - 5:30pm EDT
Shuttle Stop: Anthony Wayne & Kirby
  Tour/Field Trip

7:30pm EDT

Making Space for Sobriety
Many spaces we create and occupy are inherently not sober, creating a challenging environment for those who wish to achieve and maintain sobriety. In this strategy session we will draw connections between the ways in which our identities and communities are often targeted for substance consumption, how we center ourselves in substance within our personal lives, and how we can build space and acceptance for sobriety.

Presenters

Friday June 16, 2017 7:30pm - 9:30pm EDT
Cass Commons: Memorial Hall
  Mealtime Meetup

8:00pm EDT

#MediaJustice Mixer
Want to connect with others who work, organize, and have an interest in media justice and digital security? Join the Media Action Grassroots Network (MAG-Net), Free Press, and Equality Labs for a #MediaJustice Mixer. There will be light refreshments, music, and great company. Hang out with friends and allies to learn more about how we can build power together. All are welcome. 

Presenters
avatar for Angella Bellota

Angella Bellota

Membership Organizer, Center for Media Justice



Friday June 16, 2017 8:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
McGregor: Room F/G/H
 
Saturday, June 17
 

11:00am EDT

Open Source Virtual Drum Machines
We will briefly examine an open source electronic music and new media package called Pure Data, then use it to jump into sound generation and control techniques. We'll build a virtual drum machine from scratch, making decisions about the sounds, functions and interface along the way. Participants will leave with exposure to tools for building and customizing tools for sound generation and transformation.

Presenters
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Quran Karriem

Composer / Artist
Quran Karriem is a composer and artist, working primarily with electronic and digital media. His interests lie in live electronic and electro-acoustic music performance, algorithmic composition and media installation. He is a former member of the audio technology faculty at American... Read More →


Saturday June 17, 2017 11:00am - 12:30pm EDT
Student Center: Room 384
  Hands-on Session

11:00am EDT

Visual Media and Social Movements 101
How can we use visual media to add power to our own stories and struggles? In this session we’ll explore media tools and how they can help storytellers create impactful video and photo projects to share within their own networks. Participants will leave with the tools they need to cover an event or issue and create a powerful media piece.

Presenters
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Brooke Anderson

Survival Media Agency
Brooke Anderson is a climate justice organizer and social movement photographer. Brooke became involved in environmental justice at 17 years old when she helped shut down two toxic medical waste incinerators that were poisoning working class communities of color in her hometown in... Read More →
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Shadia Fayne Wood

Survival Media Agency
Shadia is the Executive Producer of Survival Media Agency and is a photographer and film director with a long history of community organizing. In 2016, Shadia directed over 20 short films produced in partnership with a number of movement partners, including the premier of her first... Read More →


Saturday June 17, 2017 11:00am - 12:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 131
  Hands-on Session

11:00am EDT

360-Degree Video for Activists
In this session we will learn how to create 360-degree videos and virtual reality (VR) stories. We will explain how to shoot, edit and distribute 360 content and engage in a discussion about the challenges and possibilities of virtual reality. Please bring your smartphone and headphones!

Presenters
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Matt MacVey

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Matt MacVey (@Matt_MacVey) coordinates immersive journalism programs at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, teaching 360 production workshops and connecting immersive news producers. Matt wrote a report about immersive media for the NYC Media Lab and worked on interactive stories... Read More →
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Clàudia Prat

Freelance
Clàudia Prat @webDOCC is an innovative producer. Currently she is working as a 360-degree video editor for the Associated Press. She has also freelanced for New York Times, Fusion and Univision. She is the director of "Princess Nokia 1,2,3 & A,B,C", "The Fight to Stay in Chinatown... Read More →


Saturday June 17, 2017 11:00am - 12:30pm EDT
Student Center: Room 285
  Panel-Presentation

11:00am EDT

City Government and Civic Media
In this session we will explore and question the role of city government in supporting community-based media. Members of the Boston Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics and local counterparts will discuss the role of government in designing new experiences in public schools; creating civic discourse technologies and supporting public protests; and creating urban experiences centered around care, empathy, and justice.

Presenters
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Sabrina Dorsainvil

Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics, Boston
Sabrina is fascinated by people: the way they move, speak, touch, interact and experience environments, objects, and each other. From playful drawings to impactful civic design processes, Sabrina’s work aims to improve the lives of the people around her. She’s worked with numerous... Read More →
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Jessica McInchak

Detroit Digital Justice Coalition
Jessica is a member of the Detroit Digital Justice Coalition and previously worked as a Data Justice Policy Analyst with the Detroit Community Technology Project, where she helped to assemble the Recommendations for Equitable Open Data report. She currently works as a web developer... Read More →
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Susan Nguyen

Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics, Boston
Susan Nguyen is the chief of staff for the Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics. She develops new methods to deliver thoughtful experiences and services to residents and visitors of Boston. She previously led engagement projects such as Snowstats and Block Quotes. Her background... Read More →
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Stephen Walter

Program Director, Boston Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics, Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics, Boston
Stephen Walter researches and designs civic media. As a program director in the Boston Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics, he helps experiment with civic engagement, storytelling, third spaces, and civic technology. He was the founding managing director of the Engagement Lab... Read More →


Saturday June 17, 2017 11:00am - 12:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 125
  Panel-Presentation

11:00am EDT

Map the Power
Who are the real beneficiaries of oppression? LittleSis is a research group that investigates the power elite to answer this question. In this session we will explore how “power research” is used to strengthen organizing, direct action, and movement building. We’ll share tools that allow anyone with internet to identify and expose the networks of power that fund hate groups, collaborate to dismantle the social safety net, and profit from systemic oppression.

Presenters
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Gin Armstrong

Deputy Director, LittleSis
Gin Armstrong is the deputy director of the Public Accountability Initiative, the Buffalo, NY non-profit behind LittleSis, where she focuses on tracking the networks that prop up the power elite. She is a board member of GObike Buffalo, a bicycle infrastructure advocacy organization... Read More →
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Rob Galbraith

Senior Research Analyst, LittleSis
Rob Galbraith is a senior researcher at the Public Accountability Initiative/LittleSis.org. His research focuses on the influence of the oil and gas and high finance industries on pubic policy. He is a board member of Farmer Pirates, a cooperative of urban farms in Buffalo, and co-chair... Read More →


Saturday June 17, 2017 11:00am - 12:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 118
  Strategy Session

11:00am EDT

Read the Comments! Fostering Constructive Digital Dialogues
Everyone knows you shouldn’t read the comments. Or should you? This session explores how we can create constructive and caring online spaces. Drawing from our experience with Scratch, the largest online creative community for youth, we’ll discuss how design and moderation can nurture dialogue across experience and identity. We’ll start with an analysis of discussions about the 2016 presidential election on Scratch, then encourage participants to share strategies for supporting the exchange of ideas across difference.

Presenters
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Kasia Chmielinski

MIT Media Lab
Kasia is a digital storyteller and project lead at the MIT Media Lab. They have a background in physics, architecture, developmental psychology, and web technologies.
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Sarah Otts

MIT Media Lab
Sarah works with the Scratch online community, an environment where young people can create projects and discuss topics meaningful to their lives. She plays in an activist brass band and has a background in computer science and gender studies.
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Matthew Taylor

MIT Media Lab
Matt is a software engineer on the Scratch Project at the MIT Media Lab, who also enjoys and facilitates workshops in creative coding whenever he has the chance. Additionally, Matt plays in an activist brass band, and is on the organizing committee for the HONK! Festival of activist... Read More →


Saturday June 17, 2017 11:00am - 12:30pm EDT
Student Center: Hilberry B
  Strategy Session

12:45pm EDT

Community Care Lunch Meet-Up
Join us for a community style care meet-up. We will offer ear (NADA) acupuncture, Reiki and bodywork. The meet-up will be first come, first served – no sign-up necessary. The space is welcoming of all bodies, identities, abilities, and backgrounds.

Presenters
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Chiara Francesca

Chiara Francesca is a queer disabled artist, writer, organizer, acupuncturist, former teen mother, first-gen college grad, and Italian immigrant to the occupied Indigenous territories currently known as the United States. Chiara has been involved in movements for justice for over... Read More →


Saturday June 17, 2017 12:45pm - 1:45pm EDT
Student Center: Room 020

12:45pm EDT

Go Big: Launching A Massive Student Movement
How do we create student movements that shift power at the state level? The Ohio Student Association will draw from five years of creating a statewide movement using integrated methods of mass protest and building collective identity through electoral resistance. We will share best practices of merging digital and relational organizing, and help participants plan political movements in their home states. Participants will leave with skills for launching massive student movements.

Presenters
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Morgan McNabb

Ohio Student Association
Morgan McNabb is senior organizer with Ohio Student Association. She has years of experience working with youth as a teacher and an organizer. She's led civic engagement campaigns, built student teams, and campus campaigns. She attended Wright State University studying Urban Affairs... Read More →
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Kevin O'Donnell

Ohio Student Association
Kevin comes to OSA from four years of student organizing, most recently in the Harvard Dining Hall strike and the Cosecha Allies resistance circles. He now coordinates trainings for OSA and is building the FLAME program to coach student groups that want to take on local organizing... Read More →


Saturday June 17, 2017 12:45pm - 1:45pm EDT
State Hall: Room 127
  Mealtime Meetup

12:45pm EDT

Ratchet Teachers
Have you ever been told you don't "look" like a teacher? Do you face discrimination as a teacher at your school because you belong to a marginalized group or present in a unique and nontraditional way? You're not alone! At this lunchtime meetup, we will break bread and reflect on how respectability plays out in our work as educators, current teacher demographics in the U.S., and strategies for resistance, self-care and activism.

Presenters
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golden collier

golden collier is a radical facilitator and multidisciplinary artist living in Philadelphia, PA. A double virgo, they deeply enjoy supporting their communities through creative and organizational work. They are a member of Soapbox Community Printshop back home, and in their spare... Read More →


Saturday June 17, 2017 12:45pm - 1:45pm EDT
State Hall: Room 114
  Mealtime Meetup

2:00pm EDT

With Wings and Roots: Screening and Discussion
We will screen and discuss With Wings and Roots, a feature-length documentary that tells the stories of four young people from different immigrant backgrounds who challenge what it means to be American or German through their artwork and activism. The film juxtaposes the struggles around national identity in two cities at the epicenter of immigration debates – Berlin and New York. We will discuss the film and transmedia project’s collaborative production over ten years, its community engagement strategy, and how to foster more global conversations about migration and national identity.

Presenters
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Christina Antonakos-Wallace

Filmmaker, Wings & Roots
Christina is a filmmaker and activist working in the intersection of documentary, new media and education. Her short films have screened internationally and won awards. She manages the transmedia project Wings & Roots with collaborators across the US and Europe, producing media and... Read More →
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Theresa Navarro

Wings & Roots
Theresa Navarro is a Pin@y interdisciplinary producer and cultural worker who collaborates with arts and educational organizations around the country. Her work focuses on lived experiences and media representations of local, global, and virtual negotiations of race/ethnicity, gender/sexuality... Read More →


Saturday June 17, 2017 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 106
  Film Screening-Performance

2:00pm EDT

Organizing for Healing Justice
H.O.L.L.A!'s Healing Justice Movement is an intersectional youth-led movement for youth of color and our communities. We will unpack the principles of H.O.L.L.A!’s Healing Justice Movement through facilitated role plays, activities and discussions. We will draw connections between vulnerability and personal transformation, and uplift organizing that focuses on how we change society and people at the same time.

Presenters
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keron bennett

Healing Justice Organizer
Keron Bennett 23 years old and brings to H.O.L.L.A! his and his families’ immigration history and experience. Once of Keron's favorite quotes is: "living life to the fullness"!
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Rakim Covington

Healing Justice Organizer
Rakim Covington is a formerly incarcerated street organizer who uses his energy to show young brothers and sisters guidance where they don’t have to repeat the same steps that formerly incarcerated youths made before them. We show them how to organize our community and put the... Read More →
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Alexander Davis

Healing Justice Organizer
Alexander Davis is a former product of systemic institutions but has preserved through life challenges with the knowledge & love from H.O.L.L.A!, Center for NuLeadership on Urban Solutions (CNUS), The Incarceration to Education Coalition and close relationships. Alex is now a fearless... Read More →
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Machlie Edouard

Healing Justice Organizer
Machlie Eduardo is a student at York College class of 2020 pursuing a major in Business. Machile joined How Our Lives Link Altogether! (H.O.L.L.A!) to give back to the LGBT community. To uplift the experiences and voices of the LGBTQ community. I would love to be able to provide... Read More →
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Andrew Greene

Healing Justice Organizer
Cory Greene is a formerly incarcerated co founder and organizer with How Our Lives link Altogether! Cory is currently invested in developing and supporting the development of an inter-generational youth led city-wide Healing Justice Movement.
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Gina Hong

Healing Justice Organizer
Gina Hong is an activist based in LA. She resists patriarchy and imperialism.


Saturday June 17, 2017 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 127
  Hands-on Session

2:00pm EDT

Pocket Histories: Zine-making to Share Community Stories
What (hi)stories are erased by mainstream historical narratives, and how does this impact the ways we understand our identity? We will explore DIY publishing to allow families and communities to resist erasure. Participants will create ‘pocket zines’ sharing family, community, and cultural stories and will be able to upload their zine onto “Pocket Histories,” a digital archival space.

Presenters
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Jody Chan

The Leap
Jody Chan is the Canada Organizing Associate for The Leap. She is a writer and community organizer based in Toronto, Canada. Her writing explores themes of diaspora, mental illness, and family histories, and can be found in Ricepaper Magazine and the Diasporasian Mythologies digital... Read More →
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Lorraine Chuen

Design and Communications Consultant
Lorraine Chuen is a communications professional and visual designer based out of Toronto, Canada.
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Marsha Louise McLeod

The Built Environment
Marsha McLeod is a white queer writer, media producer, and anti-violence activist based in Toronto. Marsha has worked on a variety of community-based media projects, including HERE, a feminist anthology of letters, and The Built Environment, a podcast about systemic violence in Canada... Read More →


Saturday June 17, 2017 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
McGregor: Room B/C
  Hands-on Session

2:00pm EDT

Training a New Generation of Language Justice Workers
How do we strengthen our language justice work to ensure our movements are multilingual? How do we train new people, especially 1st and 2nd generation immigrants, as social justice interpreters? This workshop for multilingual organizers includes activities from the Center for Participatory Change's Language Justice Curriculum, which has a healing and racial justice lens and includes sessions on queering and ungendering language. Participants will gain hands-on experience with this multimedia popular education tool, which they can take back home to use in their communities.

Presenters
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Monserrat Ramirez

Center for Participatory Change / Tzedek Social Justice Fellowship
Monserrat (Monse) Ramirez Perez is a twenty one-year-old, Mexican immigrant. She was first brought to the U.S. at the age of five. In 2012, Monse was a recipient of Deffered Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). She graduated from high school in 2014 and is the first in her immediate... Read More →
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Ada Volkmer

Center for Participatory Change
Ada Volkmer is a native of Mexico who lives in the mountains of North Carolina and is proud to call the US South her home. Her multicultural, bridge-crossing, code-switching experiences growing up on the US-Mexico border inspire and inform her language justice work. Ada has more than... Read More →



Saturday June 17, 2017 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 131
  Hands-on Session

2:00pm EDT

Visual Resistance and Design for Our Movements
How can we use graphic design and visual strategies to empower our movements? Design Action Collective will explore case studies of collaborative design campaigns, the challenges of creative problem solving, and tools for visual resistance in today's political climate. We'll start with a presentation on graphic design for social change, followed by a breakout group activity on crafting effective design solutions, closing with a facilitated discussion. Participants will leave with a deeper understanding of the roles and responsibilities of designers and practical skills to carry into their own work.

Presenters
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Ivy Climacosa

Worker-Owner, Design Action Collective
Ivy Climacosa, Design Action Collective, Oakland CA: born in the Philippines, raised in the Bay Area. Organized with and supported several organizations in the Filipino and other anti-imperialist communities since early 2000s.
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Molly Jane

Molly Jane grew up working class on US-occupied Creek and Seminole Territories, Florida and Georgia, graduating from Fla, Design Action Collective
Molly Jane, Graphic Designer: Molly Jane grew up white working class on US-occupied Creek and Seminole Territories, Florida and Georgia, graduating from Flagler College with a BA in Graphic Design. Molly Jane has been actively involved in grassroots organizing and direct action campaigns... Read More →


Saturday June 17, 2017 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
Student Center: Hilberry A
  Hands-on Session

2:00pm EDT

From Growing Our Economy to Growing Our Souls Tour Part 1
In a time of revolution and counter-revolution, the Boggs Center's tour of the eastside of Detroit explores history in the context of the rise and fall of the economic "American Dream" and the birth of visionary organizing and resistance. We will visit the Packard Plant, Poletown, urban gardens, The Boggs School, CanArts and The Heidelberg Project. Participants will leave with a deeper understanding of how to think historically and dialectically as we work towards the next american revolution.

Presenters
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Rich Feldman

Richard Feldmn has been active since. His involvement in the 1960s. He has worked with James and Grace Boggs for more than. ‘40 years. Rich worked on ford assembly line for more than 20 years, local. Union official. And worked on international staff of UAW. Rich I had a decades long commitment to inclusion and disability justice., James and Grace Lee Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership
Rich Feldman has had the privilege of working with James and Grace Boggs for more than 40 years. He was raised in Brooklyn, active in the 1960s in SDS at U Michigan. Rich has been married for more than 35 years and has two children, Micah and Emma. Our family journey has also brought... Read More →


Saturday June 17, 2017 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
Shuttle Stop: Anthony Wayne & Kirby
  Tour/Field Trip

4:00pm EDT

Black x Queer x Poly: 195 Lewis
Watch a screening of the unreleased web series project "195 Lewis," which follows a Black lesbian couple in Brooklyn as they strive to practice radical honesty in their newly polyamorous relationship. We will screen season one of the series and discuss the the triumphs and tribulations of the filmmaking and distribution process.

Presenters
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Rae Allen

195 Lewis, LLC
Rae Leone Allen is a writer, and filmmaker originally from Mesquite, TX. She earned a M.A. in Urban Studies at Fordham University. Allen’s first media project, 195 Lewis, is a 2015 IFP Screen Forward Lab Selection, and premiered at BAM in December 2016 and internationally at the... Read More →


Saturday June 17, 2017 4:00pm - 5:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 117
  Film Screening-Performance

4:00pm EDT

2 Cute 2 Be Erased: DIY Video Diaries
Why does history honor people like J. Marions Sims, the "father of modern gynecology", but erase enslaved women such as Anarcha who he forcibly perfected his techniques on? We will share stories of how we, and/or our ancestors, have experienced harm at the hands of the medical industrial complex. We will learn how to document our stories of resistance and transform them into powerful video diaries that we can share with others.

Presenters
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Pidgeon Pagonis

Pidgeon is a non-binary leader in the intersex movement’s fight for bodily autonomy and justice. Their goal is to deconstruct the dangerous myths that lead to violations of intersex people’s human rights, including common, irreversible medical procedures performed without consent... Read More →


Saturday June 17, 2017 4:00pm - 5:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 135
  Hands-on Session

4:00pm EDT

Getting Good Audio
Gathering, editing and distributing digital audio is easier than it’s ever been, but there are lots of ways to get more effective recordings for podcasts, audio documentaries and oral history. We'll share tips, including how to get a quality interview with a smartphone and how to build your interviewing skills. We’ll also share resources for gear, best practices for mixing, and where to go to learn more. Participants will be encouraged to skill-share and bring lots and lots of questions.

Presenters
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Jocelyn Robinson

Rediscovered Radio/WYSO
Jocelyn Robinson has worked in higher education and cultural organizations for her entire professional life. She teaches digital storytelling and is an award-winning independent radio producer. Trained in the WYSO Community Voices program, she’s now the station’s archives fellow... Read More →
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Lewis Wallace

Lewis Wallace is an independent journalist, and an editor at Scalawag Magazine. He previously worked in public radio, and he is a long-time agitator around prison issues and queer and trans liberation. Lewis`s journalism focuses on the voices of people who are geographically, economically and politically marginalized, and it has won many local and national awards. He’s currently working on a book for University of Chicago Press about the history of "objectivity" in U.S. journalism, and how it has been used to suppress diverse voices., Scalawag Magazine
Lewis Wallace is an independent writer, editor and multimedia journalist. He is the State Politics Editor at Scalawag, and has previously worked for public radio's Marketplace in the New York bureau. Before that, Lewis was the economics reporter and managing editor at WYSO Public... Read More →


Saturday June 17, 2017 4:00pm - 5:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 116
  Hands-on Session

4:00pm EDT

Counterstrike News Network
The Counterstrike News Network proposes to build a national network of people of color community based reporters. The Counterstrike News Network anticipates that as agents of our own media, with a national platform to release news we will be able to shift dominant, mainstream narratives on hard-hitting issues such as immigration, police abuse, white supremacy and more. Partnering with Free Speech TV, The Counterstrike will broadcast its production. This session is about building a list of contributors, create a schedule of possible content and discuss the creation of this network.

Presenters
avatar for Marco Amador

Marco Amador

Counterstrike News, Producciones Cimarrón
A community organizer and media activist for the past 20 years, Marco has centered his work around popular education and the facilitation of spaces and community based power. He has produced documentaries on such topics as military recruitment in the latino community and Arizona's... Read More →


Saturday June 17, 2017 4:00pm - 5:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 129

4:00pm EDT

Capoeira Angola of Bahia in Detroit
Have you ever wanted to explore Brazilian folkloric dance and music? We will learn about the past and present of Capoeira Angola and participants will get a chance to try music, Portuguese song, acrobatics and dance within Capoeira Angola. Participants will leave with a better understanding of artistic expression through dance and cultural unity.

Presenters
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Kelvin Wyatt

Tabcat Detroit
Contra-Mestre Pequenininho started training in Capoeira in 1997 in Detroit however he always thrived for a deeper understanding in Capoeira. This led him to find Mestre Caboclinho Aruanda. Pequenininho trains in Capoeira Angola of Bahia as passed to him. In 2009 Pequenininho was graduated... Read More →


Saturday June 17, 2017 4:00pm - 5:30pm EDT
Student Center: Room 025
  Practice Space session

4:00pm EDT

From Growing Our Economy to Growing Our Souls Tour Part 2
In a time of revolution and counter-revolution, the Boggs Center's tour of the eastside of Detroit explores history in the context of the rise and fall of the economic "American Dream" and the birth of visionary organizing and resistance. We will visit the Packard Plant, Poletown, urban gardens, The Boggs School, CanArts and The Heidelberg Project. Participants will leave with a deeper understanding of how to think historically and dialectically as we work towards the next american revolution.

Presenters
RF

Rich Feldman

Richard Feldmn has been active since. His involvement in the 1960s. He has worked with James and Grace Boggs for more than. ‘40 years. Rich worked on ford assembly line for more than 20 years, local. Union official. And worked on international staff of UAW. Rich I had a decades long commitment to inclusion and disability justice., James and Grace Lee Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership
Rich Feldman has had the privilege of working with James and Grace Boggs for more than 40 years. He was raised in Brooklyn, active in the 1960s in SDS at U Michigan. Rich has been married for more than 35 years and has two children, Micah and Emma. Our family journey has also brought... Read More →


Saturday June 17, 2017 4:00pm - 5:30pm EDT
Shuttle Stop: Anthony Wayne & Kirby
  Tour/Field Trip

6:00pm EDT

Toward Education Justice
Free Minds, Free People (FMFP) is a national conference that brings together teachers, young people, researchers, parents, and community-based activists and educators to develop and promote education as a tool for liberation. Participants will generate ideas about how to use AMC and FMFP 2017 as an organizing opportunity for their organizations and communities toward a vision for educational justice.

Presenters
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n8 mullen

People in Education
Nate joined Allied Media Projects in 2011 as part of the founding team of Detroit Future Schools. He is now overseeing PIE’s Programming as a Special Advisor. Nate’s work thrives at the intersection of art, education and people.He is a member of the Speakers Bureau.
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Thomas Nikundiwe

Education for Liberation


Saturday June 17, 2017 6:00pm - 8:00pm EDT
State Hall: Room 125
  Mealtime Meetup

6:00pm EDT

Trap Yoga Party (Flicka da Wrist)
Get your practice turnt! Enjoy a judgement free vinyasa flow to a soundscape for the city. The Trap Yoga Party will lift your spirits, heal your body and flick those wrists. Expect a traditional flow with a few new moves to add some bounce to your practice. All levels are welcome and limited mats will be available to use. We will have some mingling with limited refreshments right after class. DJ Rae Chardonnay on the decks with Karla Huffman (Gypsy Yoga) leading class.

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Karla Huffman

Gypsy Yoga
Not available at this time.
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Rae Taylor

Black Eutopia
N/A right now


Saturday June 17, 2017 6:00pm - 8:00pm EDT
Cass Commons: Macalister Hall
  Mealtime Meetup
 
Sunday, June 18
 

10:00am EDT

Private Screenings, Public Imaginaries in Migratory Times
The Migratory Times Project, a transnational network of artists and researchers, presents six films from Korea, Greece, Palestine, Spain, Cuba, and Denmark. The screenings will include a single work in a private room for a small group of participants to allow for an intimate discussion; a series of short works in a screening space, followed by small group discussion; and an ongoing screening on a monitor in the participation/practice space, with ongoing discussion sessions once every two hours.

Presenters
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Dalida Benfield

Institute of (im)Possible Subjects
Dalida María Benfield, Ph.D., is an artist and theorist who researches and activates feminist and post/decolonial thought, pedagogy, and creative action in the context of global information ebbs and flows. She is the founder of the Institute of (im)Possible Subjects, a transnational... Read More →


Sunday June 18, 2017 10:00am - 11:30am EDT
State Hall: Room 128
  Film Screening-Performance

10:00am EDT

Fly Freedom Makers
Hey sister friend, when was the last time you played or tinkered with something? Calling all Black Womyn to discover the power of maker tech with Just BE, a Black Womyn’s creative entrepreneurship collective from Oakland, California. We will explore how tinkering can be a tool for liberation through hands-on activities with Makey Makey circuit boards. Participants will walk away having learned a new tech tool and theory of radical tinker time that they can use to deepen their activist practice.

Presenters
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Hope Henson-Lehman

Just BE
Hope Lehman is a Black biracial hip hop feminist dedicated to community empowerment through entrepreneurship, technology, and art. She was born in Sacramento, California and graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2009 with a degree in Feminist Studies and Sociology... Read More →
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Kamilah Richardson

Just BE
Kamilah Richardson is an Oakland, California Native that is the founder of Rich and Riot and Just BE. Rich and Riot is an apparel line that combines high fashion with female empowerment and Just BE, is a Black Womyn’s art entrepreneurship collective. She is a fashion maven with... Read More →


Sunday June 18, 2017 10:00am - 11:30am EDT
Student Center: Room 384
  Hands-on Session

10:00am EDT

Tools to Destigmatize Everyday Mental Health
How can we use technology to understand and support mental health? We will discuss the potential to create digital spaces where we can come together and reconfigure how we talk about and deal with everyday struggles like anxiety. We’ll consider platforms available now and discuss what works and what doesn’t. Participants will leave with a new understanding of how technology and media can open conversations, and offer perspective and guidance.

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Sunday June 18, 2017 10:00am - 11:30am EDT
State Hall: Room 113
  Mealtime Meetup

10:00am EDT

Archives for Empowerment
Librarians and archivists from underrepresented communities will share their experiences building space and breaking stereotypes of marginalized communities. We will explore the challenges and limitations in launching and maintaining archival projects, looking at models such as the Race & Racism at The University of Richmond Project, a community archive serving the Mixteco community, a digital collection of tattooed Asian Americans, and a digital family archive. Participants will be introduced to tools and methods to build community archives and digital collections.

Presenters
avatar for Joyce Gabiola

Joyce Gabiola

Archivist, LGBTQ History Research Collection, University of Houston
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Javier Sepúlveda Garibay

Librarian-in-Residence, Loyola Marymount University
Javier Garibay received his B.A. in Latin American and Latino Studies from UC Santa Cruz and his masters in Library Science at UCLA. He is working at Loyola Marymount University as a Librarian-in-Residence, rotating through the reference, digital library, and archives departments... Read More →
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Irina Rogova

University of Richmond
Irina Rogova earned her BA in Historical Studies from Bard College and her MSLIS with a focus on Archival Management from Simmons College. Blending social justice activism with archival work, she is currently the Project Archivist for the Race & Racism at the University of Richmond... Read More →
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Jessea Young

Librarian, Loyola Marymount University
Jessea Young earned a B.A in Art History at Cal Poly Pomona University specializing in Polynesian Art. She received a M.S.L.I.S at Simmons College focusing in digital libraries and oral history. Presently, she is the Digital Initiatives Librarian at William H. Hannon Library in Loyola... Read More →


Sunday June 18, 2017 10:00am - 11:30am EDT
McGregor: Room F/G/H
  Panel-Presentation

10:00am EDT

Twitter Responses to Police Violence
The use of social media hashtags has empowered previously marginalized voices deeply affected by police brutality. Tweets after the Philando Castile shooting reveal a collective moral panic and social concern. As activists, how can we use this collective moral panic to inform the anti-police brutality movement? This workshop will help provide more cohesive messaging coming from different movements united against police violence.

Presenters
avatar for Karintha Tervalon

Karintha Tervalon

Families United 4 Justice
Karintha Tervalon is a researcher and journalist. The focus of her research is the role of social media in protest, with emphasis on the anti-police brutality movement. She is a part of the Families United 4 Justice Network Gathering, a collective effort to serve families affected... Read More →


Sunday June 18, 2017 10:00am - 11:30am EDT
Student Center: Room 020
  Strategy Session

10:00am EDT

Collecting Resistance: Histories of Social Justice in Detroit
Join us for a Wikipedia learn-to-edit-a-thon and oral history capture focused on curating the history of civil rights and social justice movements in Detroit through firsthand and researched accounts. Afro Free-Culture Crowdsourcing Wikimedia (AfroCROWD) and the Radical, Libraries, Archives and Museums track (RadLAM) invite participants to share testimonies at an oral history listening Station, or get trained on how to add and edit articles on Wikipedia. Wikipedia coaches and members of RadLAM will be on-hand to help.

Presenters
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Celeste A-Re

RadLAM
Celeste A-Re is a co-coordinator of the Radical Libraries, Archives and Museums track (RadLAM). She seeks to understand how culture, heritage and information workers use community informatics to bridge solidarity and support social justice. She is a library technician at a federal... Read More →
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Itza A. Carbajal

Latin American Metadata Librarian, University of Texas Austin LLILAS Benson
Itza Carbajal is the Latin American Metadata Librarian at LLILAS Benson. Her research focuses on community centered archival practices, use of Post-Custodialism, and the role of Community Archives. More at: www.itzacarbajal.com
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Ayshea Khan

Ayshea is the Asian American Community Archivist for the Austin History Center, where she works to document, preserve, and provide access to the history of Asian American communities in Austin. She holds a Bachelor’s in Cinema Production & Photography from Ithaca College and a MSIS from the University of Texas at Austin School of Information. Specializing in audiovisual collections, she has worked at organizations such as the Texas Archive of the Moving Image, American Genre Film Archive, Louis Black Productions and the Señal 3 public access station in Santiago de Chile. She is the Co-Chair of the Archivists` Collective for the South Asian American Digital Archive and was a track coordinator for the 2017 Disrupting Mainstream History track at the Allied Media Conference. She is passionate about media education for youth, and has been a Filmmaking Mentor for the Austin Film Society since 2012. She was part of the coordinating team for the 2018 Breaking Library Silos Workshop in Austin., Austin History Center
Ayshea is a co-coordinator of the Disrupting Mainstream History: Memory Keep, Storytelling, & Community Archives track. She is an audiovisual archivist and currently manages and preserves collections within the Collection of Texas Independent Film. She is a passionate storyteller... Read More →


Sunday June 18, 2017 10:00am - 2:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 137

10:00am EDT

DIY Internet Radio Exploration
Internet radio offers people a platform to curate their media, voice their values and amplify communities. We will discuss the position of internet radio in small communities as an agent for local advocacy and global connections. The session will explore three community-based internet radio projects as well as provide session participants with basic knowledge to create a DIY internet radio and build connections with partners.The session will be broadcasted live by youth radio producers.

Presenters
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Diego Aguirre

Centro de Cultura Digital/ Director CCD Radio
Diseñador gráfico por el Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Occidente (ITESO, 2004). Ha trabajado como director de arte e impartido clases de tipografía y diseño editorial. Actualmente se desempeña como Co-director del proyecto CCD RADIO para el Centro de Cultura Digital... Read More →
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Logan Bay

Public Media Institute, WLPN-LP Chicago 105.5 FM Lumpen Radio
Logan Bay is WLPN-LP Chicago 105.5 FM Lumpen Radio's programming director and station director. Logan is a multifaceted creative professional guided by a life long passion for art & design with experience directing festivals, managing businesses and curating content.
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Stephanie Manriquez

Director, Lumpen Radio / Contratiempo
Stephanie Manriquez is a writer, multicultural guide and social activist, also known for her work in public radio as an independent producer. She is the Executive Director at Contratiempo, a literary organization that highlights the cultural contributions of the Spanish-speaking diaspora... Read More →
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Vanessa Sanchez

Director - Yollocalli Arts Reach, Yollocalli Arts Reach of the National Museum of Mexican Art
Vanessa Sanchez received her BFA in Painting at University of IL at Chicago and currently is the Director of Yollocalli Arts Reach. Since 2001, she has dedicated her career to designing innovative, creative, and free art and media programs for teens and young adults in collaboration... Read More →


Sunday June 18, 2017 10:00am - 11:30pm EDT
Student Center: Hilberry C
  Hands-on Session

11:45am EDT

Community Care Lunch Meet-Up
Join us for a community style care meet-up. We will offer ear (NADA) acupuncture, Reiki and bodywork. The meet-up will be first come, first served – no sign-up necessary. The space is welcoming of all bodies, identities, abilities, and backgrounds.

Presenters
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Chiara Francesca

Chiara Francesca is a queer disabled artist, writer, organizer, acupuncturist, former teen mother, first-gen college grad, and Italian immigrant to the occupied Indigenous territories currently known as the United States. Chiara has been involved in movements for justice for over... Read More →


Sunday June 18, 2017 11:45am - 12:45pm EDT
Student Center: Room 020

11:45am EDT

Girl, I Got You
Our session explores how we can work together to achieve our personal and professionals goals. We will present our framework of setting actionable and attainable goals and attendees will have the option to create a short video diary segment. Participants will be able to use the video as a tool to remind themselves of their initial goals, and can include the skills they built in this workshop on their resumes.

Presenters
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Kristy Lopez

Transwoman Empowerment Initiative
Kristy's story is very inspiring. She has always been a transgender advocate in the criminal justice system, since she has had to serve a sentence in an all male facility as a transwoman. She broke ground by being the first transwoman allowed into an all cisgender female transition... Read More →
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Violet Martinez

Vice President Transwoman Empowerment Initiative
Violet is a transfemme student of color, advocating on issues and taking on the intersectional lense of LGB[T]Q rights, sex workers rights, mental health awareness, youth leadership,and educational/juvenile justice. She is also the vice president of Transwomen Empowerment Initiat... Read More →
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Riley Del Rey

President of Transwoman Empowerment Initiative
Riley is the founder and President of the Chrysalis BeautyCenter and the Transwoman Empowerment Initiative in Albuquerque, New Mexico.She created TEI out of a need for young transwomen of colour to mentor one another to work towards higher personal and professional goals. With the... Read More →


Sunday June 18, 2017 11:45am - 12:45pm EDT
State Hall: Room 123
  Mealtime Meetup

11:45am EDT

TED-Ed: Amplifying Student and Educator Voice
How can we amplify youth voice? TED’s youth and education initiative, TED-Ed, aims to spark and celebrate the ideas of students ​and teachers around the globe. The TED-Ed Clubs program supports students in presenting their big ideas in the form of short TED-style talks. Participants will experience a hands-on introduction to TED’s curriculum and leave with the tools to support students in developing presentation skills to share their ideas. Additionally, this workshop will explore how TED-Ed Clubs could also be used as a vehicle for exploring and uncovering issues of social justice and equity in and out of the classroom.

Presenters
avatar for Nola-rae Cronan

Nola-rae Cronan

Middle School Director at Columbus School for Girls
After working in education for over 15 years, first in high school and then with middle schoolers, Nola-rae has a passion for girls education and technology. With a recent move into a Director role at a Columbus, Ohio all-girls middle school, Nola-rae has enjoyed her continued work... Read More →


Sunday June 18, 2017 11:45am - 12:45pm EDT
State Hall: Room 118
  Mealtime Meetup

11:45am EDT

Using Creative Commons for Collaboration
Why choose open when everything feels free? This workshop will help folks learn about Creative Commons (CC) licenses for movement building. We'll discuss licensing your work for social change, finding CC media, and why being part of the commons can help your organization shine. Participants will leave with a better sense of CC, how open licensing can work for them, how to use CC in grassroots media, and how they can become a part of CC's global community of social movers and shakers!

Presenters
avatar for Jennie Rose Halperin

Jennie Rose Halperin

Jennie is the Communications Manager at Creative Commons. She makes the CC communications and brand sparkle and works with communities to tell their stories through a variety of media.She previously worked for Safari Books Online/O'Reilly Media as the Product Engagement Manager and... Read More →


Sunday June 18, 2017 11:45am - 12:45pm EDT
State Hall: Room 117
  Mealtime Meetup

1:00pm EDT

Getting Schooled: Detroit Public Schools on Stage
Black and Brown Theatre will present a devised theatre piece that looks at the challenges that the Detroit Public School system faces by telling the stories of the teachers, students, administrators and parents. Audience members will enjoy a powerful show followed by a talkback in which we will brainstorm potential realistic solutions and action items to the challenges addressed in the performance.

Presenters
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Emilio Rodriguez

Black and Brown Theatre
Black and Brown Theatre was founded in the summer of 2016 to address inequities in the professional theatre community by providing professional development and performance opportunities to actors of color in the southeast Michigan area. The theatre has performed two showcases, a reading... Read More →
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Imani Sims

Black and Brown Theatre


Sunday June 18, 2017 1:00pm - 2:30pm EDT
Student Center: Hilberry B
  Film Screening-Performance

1:00pm EDT

Reel Stories: Bridging Communities Through Filmmaking
Our session will feature films and a panel discussion with students from Reel Stories, a joint program between the Arab American National Museum and Palestinian Heritage Museum. Instructors will speak on their roles in creating a safe space that fosters creativity, and program coordinators will share more about program building. The session will be followed by a Q&A with the audience.

Presenters
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Nayla Contejean

Student at AANM's Reel Stories
Nayla attends Troy Athens High School where is a stage manager at her school, Athens Theatre Company, and runs for the Varsity Track and Field team. Aside from this, she is interested in the art of filmmaking. She dreams of moving to Los Angeles to work in the film industry, a field... Read More →
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Jenna Hamed

Arab American National Museum
Jenna is a Palestinian American Muslim, constantly experimenting with word, color, cloth, and imagery. Her works are based on firsthand experiences with identity and conflict, and plans to expand the basis of this work in graduate school; focusing on the trajectory of art and design... Read More →
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Imad Hassan

Film Instructor at AANM's Reel Stories program
An award winning 20-year media veteran, Imad Hassan’s career spans across multiple disciplines; theatre, print journalism, film & television, the arts and media education.His education includes degrees from Wayne State University in Journalism, Eastern Michigan University in Film... Read More →
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Lydia Kuzak

Student at AANM Reel Stories
Lydia Kuzak is 17 years old. She is one of the Directors involved in the Reel Stories program. She has been very involved in social justice throughout her high school career: she volunteered for Detroit based organizations, art programs, and lead a social justice advocacy club called... Read More →
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Heba Samra

Student at AANM's Reel Stories
Heba Samra is a 17 year old student attending Star International Academy and is representing Reel Stories as a producer. She is interested in learning about different societies and cultures worldwide and hopes to be a part of the dialogue that unites them through appreciation for... Read More →
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Malak Wazne

Student at AANM'S Reel Stories
Malak Wazne, a 17 year old who attends Dearborn High, expresses her perspective on this world through her poetry and a filmmaking. She has a mission to break the barriers we have built in silence by sharing perspectives through a lens. Malak has been nominated for a student Emmy for... Read More →


Sunday June 18, 2017 1:00pm - 2:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 106
  Film Screening-Performance

1:00pm EDT

Sarap: A Pilipinx Horror Drag Cooking Show
Join us for a performance of "A Pilipinx Horror Drag Cooking Show," which re-imagines the origin story of the 'Filipino Vampire,’ the Manananggal. Have you ever tasted Filipino sausages? With just one bite of the right dish, you can taste the stories from back home – each ingredient and way of cooking providing its own lesson. These stories tell of our homeland, our bodies, our longing and... our Monsters. Boo! There will be lap dances to give, community to build and food to share. It's so scary, it's good. (radical kitchen space)

Presenters
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Patrick Salvani

MS NOOKIE GALORE!!! Having been raised to fear everything, Ms. Nookie Galore has an un/comfortable relationship with stories that haunt us. He/She/They/Anything including “ho” is not your average FilipinX genderqueer, pansexual, hairy asian, horror storytelling, father fuckin` Drag Queen. Ms. Galore’s art has been featured in CBC Arts, the documentary `No Fats, No Femmes, No Asians,` showcased at the Art Gallery of Ontario, published in the book `Diasporic Intimacies: Queer Filipinos and Canadian Imaginiaries` and their new Drag Horror Cooking Show, `SARAP`, and `I Don`t Fuck With You: The Goth Drag Musical` will heat the summer up! Lastly, they are the co-founder of the longest-standing paid queer and trans youth of colour mentorship program in Canada, The Drag Musical. Ms. Nookie Galore uses performance art to anchor us in the places we have been to creating space to dream of places we need to go., Krafty Queers
Patrick Salvani/Ms. Nookie Galore is a horror writer and genderqueer drag queen. They are the FatherMom to the largest and longest standing Queer and Trans BPOC program/show in Canada, The Drag Musical housed in Krafty Queers. Nookie’s work has been featured in Rhubarb Theatre Festival... Read More →


Sunday June 18, 2017 1:00pm - 2:30pm EDT
Student Center: Room 285
  Film Screening-Performance

1:00pm EDT

Embodied Twitter
Successful campaigns almost always utilize social media as a tool for organizing. However, the underlying algorithms, social rules and cultural expectations are often complex or hidden. In this participatory workshop, we will use movement exercises and bodystorming to ideate ways to hack social media for social change, without losing sight of the human-to-human interaction at the heart of digital communication.

Presenters
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Judeth Oden Choi

Writ Large Press
Judeth Oden Choi is a PhD student at the Human Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon. She brings her experience in theatre and community arts to HCI, focusing on social justice activism on Twitter, games and VR, and embodied design methods. She has 20 years of teaching... Read More →


Sunday June 18, 2017 1:00pm - 2:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 127
  Hands-on Session

1:00pm EDT

Get Ready Stay Ready Panel Discussion
Engage in conversation with people on the ground in Detroit creating solutions for community preparedness. From emergency medicine in your own backyard to community water and energy security solutions, the panel will discuss current projects, responses, and more life-saving life hacks with participants. 

Presenters
avatar for Halima Cassells

Halima Cassells

Halima Cassells is Detroit-based artist/community advocate who traverses many diverse circles in Detroit. Halima designs spaces for authentic engagement that cultivate ideas of new economy. Halima works as an independent artist and assumes leadership roles at Incite Focus Fab Lab... Read More →
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B. Anthony Holley

B. Anthony Holley is a community organizer, entrepreneur, cooperative developer, emergency preparedness educator born and raised in Detroit. Through his work with Conscious Community Cooperative ThinkTank members have produced innumerable community forums and projects on self-sufficiency... Read More →
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Meta Ko

Meta Ko is a mechanical engineer, researcher, spiritual guide, co-host of ReadYo Radio, and beloved father and husband. His work with ReadYo Radio includes conducting interview at community events in Detroit, providing a metaphysical/spiritual perspective that is often missing from... Read More →
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Spirit Traveler

Spirit Traveler a native-born Detroiter has been working in service for her community many years. Mother of 10 awesome children and grandmother of 16 fabulous grandchildren. Known in the community as a Midwife, Doula, Birth Educator, and Holistic Healer. She uses her gifts as the... Read More →


Sunday June 18, 2017 1:00pm - 2:30pm EDT
McGregor: Room F/G/H
  Panel-Presentation

1:00pm EDT

Working Girls Own the Void
This sex-worker led strategy session focuses on digital media’s changing facade as it impacts our industry and our labor. Sex workers have always relied on rhetorical, aesthetic, and poetic media to connect to one another, to clientele, and to the public. Now, we’ve arrived at a pivotal moment, in which media threatens us with exploitation, yet also holds the potential for our independence. The conversation centers on the concept of the “void” – the space between ourselves and our colleagues, ourselves and our clientele, ourselves and our identities – as a site of worker autonomy.

Presenters
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Lyn Archer

Lyn Archer is a stripper, agrarian and artist, raised in the bay area and living in New Orleans. Her creative research is done with the intention of decriminalizing sex work., Red Light Archive
Lyn Archer is a sex worker and creative freelancer, living and working in New Orleans. In Light Work, her monthly column for Antigravity Magazine, she describes the personal, political, and psychic aspects of her experience as a stripper.


Sunday June 18, 2017 1:00pm - 2:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 128
  Strategy Session

6:00pm EDT

Kicking Literacy Kickball Game
Our kickball game will celebrate the bright minds in Detroit kicking literacy, and at the same time allow us to engage in exercise that is full of fun. We will also be signing up teams and kids for our summer kickball league that will start at end of July. Fans and spectators welcome.

Presenters
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Corey Pope

KeyWayToKids
Keywaytokids.com


Sunday June 18, 2017 6:00pm - 7:30pm EDT
Wayne State University- Soccer Field
  Mealtime Meetup
 


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