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Thursday, June 15
 

8:00am EDT

Info Desk
New to the AMC? Have questions? Need directions? The Info Desk has the answer. Desks are staffed by knowledgeable volunteers and AMC organizers. They are open throughout the conference while sessions are running.

Look for big “Info Desk” signs and volunteers waiting to answer questions in the Student Center, McGregor Conference Center, and State Hall.
Thursday June 15, 2017 8:00am - Sunday June 18, 2017 5:30pm EDT
Student Center / McGregor / State Hall

9:30am EDT

The Boggs School Parade
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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.
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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 →


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

9:30am EDT

Kreung Dinner Team Building & Learning: Chum Reap Sew
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Chum reap sew means “welcome” in Khmer. This session will be an orientation and powerful team building space for people interested in being a part of the collective preparation of the Kreung AMC dinner. Participants will create maps of their food lives, share them with each other, and learn about the culinary and cultural journey that has brought Kreung into being. They will also learn the names and significance of the dishes that Chef Chinchakriya Un and her mother have chosen for the AMC feast so that the labor they do has purpose and meaning.
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Chinchakriya Un

Chinchakriya (Char) Un is an artist/chef who creates space to share personal narratives through food. She explores memories both personal and shared, familial and societal, which highlight inherited trauma within the global Cambodian community. Char's food, her mother's food and... Read More →

Thursday June 15, 2017 9:30am - 12:00pm EDT
McGregor: Room I
  Hands-on Session

9:30am EDT

AMC Work Room
We know that while you are here, your work doesn’t stop. Drop into this work room to check emails, have low-level conversations and keep up with your inbox through the weekend. (Please bring your own laptop or device.)
Thursday June 15, 2017 9:30am - Sunday June 18, 2017 4:45pm EDT
Student Center: Room 358

9:30am EDT

Breastfeeding/Changing Room
In addition to childcare, we are offering a quiet space where we invite parents who are breastfeeding, feeding or changing their small ones to have a room away from the activities of the conference.
Thursday June 15, 2017 9:30am - Sunday June 18, 2017 4:45pm EDT
Student Center: Room 279

9:30am EDT

Childcare
Childcare is provided for all children who attend the AMC. A parent or adult in care of a child can enroll any child for the duration of the conference. Childcare provides fun, creative and educational activities as well as healthy snacks twice daily. All parents or guardians bringing children must be fed meals by parents/guardians and all must complete an entrance form. Available: Thursday, 9:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.; Friday & Saturday, 8:30 a.m. - 5:45 p.m.; Sunday, 9:30 a.m. - 4:45 p.m.
Thursday June 15, 2017 9:30am - Sunday June 18, 2017 4:45pm EDT
Student Center: Hilberry F

1:00pm EDT

Kreung Earthworks Urban Farm Tour
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This tour is helping create total awareness and appreciation of every step in the production of food that will be served and enjoyed at the Kreung AMC dinner. Usually, we do not know much about where our food comes from and who grew it but in this case, Earthworks has been growing vegetables specifically for Kreung and has been engaging the participants of their farm education program in this process. This tour provides an opportunity for AMC participants to learn from how Earthworks is building a just, beautiful food system through education, inspiration, and community development. As a working study in both social justice and in knowing the origins of the food we eat, Earthworks strives to restore our connection to the environment and community and the Kreung AMC dinner is a part of that.

To attend this session please meet at the Towers Shuttle Stop located at Anthony Wayne and Kirby at 12:45pm.
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CM
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Chinchakriya Un

Chinchakriya (Char) Un is an artist/chef who creates space to share personal narratives through food. She explores memories both personal and shared, familial and societal, which highlight inherited trauma within the global Cambodian community. Char's food, her mother's food and... Read More →

Thursday June 15, 2017 1:00pm - 2:30pm EDT
Shuttle Stop: Anthony Wayne & Kirby
  Hands-on Session

3:30pm EDT

Kreung Kitchen orientation & paste making
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This hands on cooking session will orient participants to the kitchen so that they feel confident and comfortable cooking on a larger scale. They will learn what is involved in Kreung paste, the “mother paste” of Cambodian cuisine. They will learn from Chef Chinchakriya Un and her mother and aunt about the medicinal powers of the ingredients and how it’s integrated into almost all Cambodian dishes. They will prep ingredients, make the paste, and walk away with small containers to keep for themselves (or share with their people).

To attend this session please meet at the Towers Shuttle Stop located at Anthony Wayne and Kirby at 3:15 pm.
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CA
CM
CU

Chinchakriya Un

Chinchakriya (Char) Un is an artist/chef who creates space to share personal narratives through food. She explores memories both personal and shared, familial and societal, which highlight inherited trauma within the global Cambodian community. Char's food, her mother's food and... Read More →

Thursday June 15, 2017 3:30pm - 6:30pm EDT
TBA
  Hands-on Session

6:00pm EDT

Welcome Plenary: Past, Present, Futurism
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Food and refreshments available starting at 6:00pm. Plenary begins at 7:30pm.

For many places, including Detroit, the year 1967 has become a symbol of uprising and violence, of possibilities for transformation, but rarely of healing. In Detroit, the absence of healing, truth and reconciliation around the events of 1967 is a defining feature of our cultural and political landscape, constricting what we can become. Drawing on the wisdom of Detroit movement elder Shea Howell, sonic healer Sterling Toles, and time-traveler poet Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs, this plenary will chart visions of a future that are grounded in the complexity of the present and the past.

Live performance by Bandelero and light refreshments will be offered. Directly following, be sure head over to the One Mile x AMC2017 after party hosted by the Detroit Culture Council. Shuttles will be offered from WSU campus and hotels to the plenary and after party.
Moderators
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Tawana Petty (she/her)

Director, Data Justice Program, Detroit Community Technology Project
Tawana "Honeycomb" Petty is a mother, author, poet and social justice organizer. She serves as Data Justice director for the Detroit Community Technology Project and co-leads Our Data Bodies. She is an antiracism facilitator with Detroit Equity Action Lab and a Digital Civil Society... Read More →

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Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a time traveller and space cadet, somehow your cousin and a community cherished Black feminist scholar, author, artist and educator.  She is the author of Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity, a co-editor of Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front... Read More →
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Shea Howell

National Council of Elders
Shea Howell is a Detroit based activist and writer with the Boggs Center, Detroit Independent Freedom Schools, and Riverwise Magazine. She is a member of the National Council of Elders and is a professor of communication at Oakland University.
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Sterling Toles

Sterling Toles is a sonic and visual artist who emerged from Detroit's hip hop scene. He attended the College for Creative Studies, where he received a BFA in Illustration. Seeing the creative process as the seed of collective healing, his personal creativity has led him to work with... Read More →

Thursday June 15, 2017 6:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
The Jam Handy 2900 E Grand Blvd, Detroit, MI 48202
  Plenary

7:30pm EDT

Seraphine Collective Presents the Collective Knowledge Showcase
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Featuring performances by Pancho Villa (Detroit), Free Bleeders (Detroit), Friendship Commanders (Nashville), Deekah (Detroit), and Sacramento Knoxx (Detroit). $5 admission to support the Collective Knowledge Network Gathering at AMC2017.
Thursday June 15, 2017 7:30pm - 11:00pm EDT
Third Man Records 441 W Canfield St, Detroit, MI 48201
  AMC @ Night

9:00pm EDT

Welcome Party: Detroit Culture Council x One Mile
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Hear about how cross-disciplinary creative communities are collaborating to re-establish a Culture and Arts Council in the city, meet the folks moving the work forward, and do it while partying with "the Mothership"! Featuring sounds by Jay Daniel and Spin INC., with an interactive fashion show by Detroit Clothing Circle.
Thursday June 15, 2017 9:00pm - Friday June 16, 2017 1:00am EDT
ONE Mile 7615 Oakland St Detroit, MI 48211
  AMC @ Night
 
Friday, June 16
 

9:00am EDT

Stories Become Movements, Become Stories
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A moment of uprising can become a story that lights up whole movements for social transformation; those movements in turn become stories passed across generations and continents, fueling the belief that reality is shapeable. A story from one place and time may be enough to lead one or two, or a million people to act in another place and time, sparking new uprisings, which in turn, become new stories. Rebecca Solnit describes this cyclical, yet unpredictable relationship between movements and stories as grounds for hope. She writes, “Hope locates itself in the premises that we don’t know what will happen. And in that spaciousness of uncertainty there is room to act.” This plenary will explore how stories became movements, then became stories in the context of Standing Rock, the Movement for Black Lives, the movement to end caste-based sexual violence in India, and why we need to save the Internet to keep our stories alive and circulating.
Moderators
avatar for Jenny Lee

Jenny Lee

Executive Director, Allied Media Projects
Jenny Lee is the executive director of Allied Media Projects, where she has worked in various capacities since 2006. Over this period she has led the healthy growth and evolution of the organization through facilitative leadership, innovative program design, and network cultivation... Read More →

Presenters
avatar for Malkia Devich-Cyril

Malkia Devich-Cyril

Keynote Speaker, MediaJustice Senior Fellow & Founding Director
Malkia Devich-Cyril is an activist, writer and public speaker on issues of digital rights, narrative power, Black liberation and collective grief. Devich-Cyril is also the founding and former Executive Director of MediaJustice — a national hub boldly advancing racial justice, rig... Read More →
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Jenni Monet

Jenni Monet is an award-winning journalist reporting for the Center for Investigative Reporting, PBS NewsHour, PRI's The World, Al Jazeera, High Country News and Yes! Magazine. She is executive producer and host of the podcast, Still Here and is a tribal citizen of the Pueblo or Laguna... Read More →
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Thenmozhi Soundararajan

Thenmozhi is an artist, activist, and technologist with Equality Labs., Equality Labs
Equality Labs
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Paige Watkins

Paige Watkins is a genderqueer educator, organizer and student from Detroit. In 2015, they co-founded the Black Bottom Archives, a community-driven media platform dedicated to centering and amplifying the voices, experiences, and perspectives of Black Detroiters. They are a member... Read More →

Friday June 16, 2017 9:00am - 10:30am EDT
DeRoy Auditorium
  Plenary

9:00am EDT

AMC Exhibition Area
The AMC features an exhibition area showcasing an exciting collection of book and zine distributors, non-profit and activist organizations, technology presentations, and art, films, music, and crafts. Be sure to stop by for live screenprinting, new AMP merch and great vendors throughout the weekend.
Friday June 16, 2017 9:00am - Sunday June 18, 2017 5:00pm EDT
Student Center Main Ballroom

9:30am EDT

Deep Relaxation Room
Awesome as it is, the AMC can be overwhelming. You can go to the Deep Relaxation Room to chill out, take a nap, make some tea and recharge. Help maintain a safe and calming space for everyone to enjoy.

During lunch on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, join us in the Deep Relaxation Room for some group healing activities and exercises.
Friday June 16, 2017 9:30am - 4:45pm EDT
Student Center: Room 010

11:00am EDT

'The Year We Thought About Love' Film Screening
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What happens when LGBTQ youth of color dare to write a play about queer love? Watch "The Year We Thought About Love," a 68-minute award-winning film about Boston-based True Colors, the nations oldest LGBTQ youth theater troupe. Representatives from Gayrilla Theater Project: Riot Youth will share their work with experiential education and social action theater to make schools more inclusive. Participants will engage with Gayrilla and learn about facilitation skills using free resources from the film's website.
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Suzie Staley

Suzie Staley, Ed.S Associate Director, Neutral Zone Suzie serves as the Program Director at the Neutral Zone. Prior to, Neutral Zone
Suzie serves as the Program Director at the Neutral Zone. Prior, she was Senior Program Associate at the Weikart Center and Director of the Youth Mentorship Program at The Henry Ford, for fourteen years. Suzie is pursuing a Doctorate in Educational Leadership at Eastern Michigan University... Read More →

Friday June 16, 2017 11:00am - 12:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 128
  Film Screening-Performance

11:00am EDT

A Rehearsal for the Revolution
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These days require us to fight for our liberties and our humanity, but for many political actions may seem too frightening. This session will serve as a rehearsal space for people working in communities where political engagement is crucial, yet they may be too shy, timid, self-conscious or otherwise incapable of participation. Participants will leave with tools from Augusto Boal’s Arsenal of The Theatre of the Oppressed, designed to turn spectators into "spect-actors".
Presenters
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Pink Flowers

Organizer, Falconworks Theater Company
Reg Flowers began their career as a theater artist, on and off- Broadway, with several guest starring television appearances. They are founder of Falconworks Theater Company a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) that uses popular theater techniques to build capacities for civic engagement and... Read More →
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Ethan Kankula

Alt Space
Ethan is a Theatre of the Oppressed practitioner and teaching artist that has had the honor of working at theatres in the Detroit area such as, Open Book, Outvisible, Matrix, Monster Box, B&B, Shakespeare In Detroit, and Wild Swan. He is currently directing a psychological thriller... Read More →

Friday June 16, 2017 11:00am - 12:30pm EDT
Student Center: Room 020
  Hands-on Session

11:00am EDT

Activist Archiving 101
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How do we document our work and ensure that future generations will have access to our ideas, materials, experiences and lessons? What models, tools and resources already exist that we can draw from? In this hands-on session, librarians and archivists will share basic techniques and concepts that will empower activists to be stewards of their own personal and/or organizational archives. Participants will come away from this session with tools and ideas about how they can archive the work they are doing.
Presenters
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Sine Hwang Jensen

UC Berkeley Ethnic Studies Library
Sine is a librarian and archivist currently working at the UC Berkeley Ethnic Studies Library. She is passionate about intergenerational knowledge-sharing and bridging her love for libraries with her work in social justice.
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Claude Marks

The Freedom Archives
Claude Marks is a former anti-imperialist political prisoner and is the Director of The Freedom Archives, a political, cultural oral history project, restoration center, and media production facility in San Francisco. Under his direction, The Freedom Archives has released several... Read More →
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Nathaniel Moore

The Freedom Archives
Nathaniel Moore is an educator and archivist at the Freedom Archives. He is also active in social justice programming inside of San Quentin State Prison and working to uplift voices of resistance.

Friday June 16, 2017 11:00am - 12:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 113
  Hands-on Session

11:00am EDT

Another World is Possible: Poetry as Speculative Activism
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In the introduction to the anthology Octavia’s Brood, Walidah Imarisha writes: “Whenever we try to envision a world without war, without violence, without prisons, without capitalism, we are engaging in speculative fiction.” In this workshop, we will explore the connections between imagining and organizing, engage in writing activities designed to help us envision freedom, and examine poems that leverage the power of lyricism to point us toward the world(s) we are building.
Presenters
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Franny Choi

Franny Choi is a poet, educator, podcaster, and essayist. She is the author of two poetry collections, Soft Science (Alice James Books) and Floating, Brilliant, Gone (Write Bloody Publishing). She co-hosts the podcast VS alongside fellow poet Danez Smith and founded the Brew & Forge... Read More →
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Danez Smith

Dark Noise Collective
Danez Smith is the author of Don't Call Us Dead (2017), [insert] Boy (2014), winner of the Lambda Literary Award and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and the chapbook hands on ya knees (Penmanship Books, 2013). Smith is the recipient of fellowships from the Poetry Foundation, The National... Read More →

Friday June 16, 2017 11:00am - 12:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 123
  Hands-on Session

11:00am EDT

Decolonize This! Reindigenizing Tech and Media
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Join us to learn about digital storytelling and mapping from within Indigenous Nations. Participants will explore examples of Indigenized media and participate in a hands-on demonstration of mobile/map-based storytelling software tools, built in collaboration with Indigenous peoples and with an approach to dissemination. Dialogue will include sovereignty and visibility/invisibility in media, and how interactive and independent media function to provide agency within Indigenous communities.
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Emily Jacobi

Digital Democracy
Emily Jacobi is Founder/Executive Director of Digital Democracy, whose mission is to empower marginalized communities to use technology to defend their rights. Since beginning her career as a youth journalist, Emily has worked to leverage media & technology to connect people across... Read More →
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Ryan McMahon

The Makoons Media Group
Ryan McMahon is an Anishinaabe comedian, writer, media maker & community activator based out of Treaty #1 territory (Winnipeg, MB). Ryan McMahon is the founder/owner of the Makoons Media Group which is an emerging, independent, Indigenous new media company committed to Indigenous... Read More →
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Leena Minifie

seiche.works + ricochet.media
Leena Minifie is Tsimshian (First Nations) artist, writer, curator & media producer. She has relocated from Vancouver to Minneapolis to join the Seiche consulting team. Leena graduated in New Media and ILS from I.A.I.A in New Mexico. She’s worked as journalist for independent Indigenous... Read More →

Friday June 16, 2017 11:00am - 12:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 101
  Hands-on Session

11:00am EDT

Detroit Comix Party: Something from Nothing
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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.
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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

How to Set-Up and Livestream an Event
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Have you ever wanted to start your own internet radio stream? Or live stream a community forum, rally, or event without going through Facebook Live? Come learn the basics of setting up a live stream and streaming an event with some of the organizers from WNUC, Detroit's new low power FM radio station. Participants will get hands on experience in setting up the live stream for AMC's morning plenaries and will leave with the tools to live stream events in your own communities. Come help amplify the plenaries so that your communities and collaborators can tune in from around the world (or from their hotel room as they get ready for afternoon AMC sessions). 
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Julie Censullo

WNUC-LP, Frogtown Community Radio
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David Klann

(WNUC-LP)
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Sabrina Roach

Brown Paper Tickets
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Ayana Rubio

(WNUC-LP)

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

11:00am EDT

Mamas and Grandmas for the Revolution
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Becoming a mama shakes us to the core, brings up old and new wounds, as well as new capacities to address them. Can we accept all that motherhood and grandmotherhood bring, heal ourselves, and raise children who are brave, creative, compassionate, and ready to address the crucial issues of the 21st century? Mamas and grandmas, let’s embrace the contradictions of mothering, and share specific practices for self-healing and raising 21st century revolutionaries.
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Atieno Nyar Kasagam

Zomi Huron is your everyday eastside dreamer with hoop dreams, he fancies himself as a sometimes farmer, mycologist, ideator, and a always father., None
Atieno currently sits on the Detroit Food Policy Council and is a co-ordinator of the Detroit Urban Farmers Network. She is also an urban farmer in Detroit and a Sangoma who leverages writing, music, photography and film to examine social/political issues, to tell stories, and to... Read More →
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Adela Nieves

Homemade Healing
Adela Nieves is a new mama who needs more sleep. She is also a Traditional Health and Healing Arts Practitioner, who is deeply committed to her Taino (indigenous peoples of the Caribbean) roots. Adela supports people in their journeys to tell their own story and define health, healing... Read More →
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Myrtle Thompson-Curtis

Mama Myrtle helps run Feedom Freedom Farm in Detroit`s east side, and is on the board of the Boggs Center. She is a mother and grandmother., Feedom Freedom
Mama Myrtle Curtis grows food, nurtures generations, and serves as a community anchor on the far east side of Detroit.

Friday June 16, 2017 11:00am - 12:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 135
  Hands-on Session

11:00am EDT

Street Therapy: Emotional Safety for Resistance
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How can we show up for ourselves and each other while showing up for movements? Our workshop will explore practical ways to stay grounded and impactful while rising up against increased fascism and militarized policing. We will learn about caregiving for ourselves and others in public spaces, especially within political actions. This hands-on workshop will use Icarus resources, group exercises, and role playing activities to help activists engage healing justice in resistance.
Presenters
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Agustina Vidal

The Icarus Project
Agustina Vidal is a versatile thinker & organizer who thrives at the intersection of theory & action. Originally from Argentina, Agustina was five when democracy returned & grew up active in the human rights work that flourished there after dictatorship’s end. She’s been part... Read More →
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Natalie Yoon

The Icarus Project
Natalie Yoon is an organizer coming out of the student labor movement. While working as an organizer with different labor and student organizations, Natalie found herself struggling with severe anxiety and depression and recognized that this is a common struggle for movement leaders... Read More →

Street Therapy 103 Emotional Resistance in Action pptx
Friday June 16, 2017 11:00am - 12:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 116
  Hands-on Session

11:00am EDT

Detroit Through the Eyes of James and Grace Lee Boggs
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How does the radical legacy of James and Grace Lee Boggs speak to our struggles to transform ourselves and society? We will explore how James and Grace Lee Boggs analyzed capitalism and white supremacy, while they made Detroit the center of revolutionary organizing from the eras of civil rights and Black Power to neoliberalism and emergency management. Participants will come away with new insights from Detroit's ongoing movement history and the Boggs's philosophical activism.
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Scott Kurashige

Scott Kurashige is author of The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic LA; The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century with Grace Lee Boggs; and The Fifty-Year Rebellion: How the U.S. Political Crisis... Read More →
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Stephen Ward

Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership
Stephen Ward is the author of IN LOVE AND STRUGGLE: THE REVOLUTIONARY LIVES OF JAMES AND GRACE LEE BOGGS and editor of PAGES FROM A BLACK RADICAL’S NOTEBOOK: A JAMES BOGGS READER. He teaches African American history and urban community studies at the University of Michigan.

Friday June 16, 2017 11:00am - 12:30pm EDT
Student Center: Hilberry B
  Panel-Presentation

11:00am EDT

Humanizing Schooling in Detroit
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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.
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AC
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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 →
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Friday June 16, 2017 11:00am - 12:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 106
  Panel-Presentation

11:00am EDT

Publishing for the People: Books as Lovework
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Printed words connect us like stories in a patchwork quilt or the roots of the forest. Do you want to create a chapbook, zine, anthology of stories, book, or novel for the first time? Come gather concrete tips – from conception to marketing and self publishing, to book deals and beyond – with published authors ready to cheer you on and share tips for how to take care of yourself on the journey. All experience levels and backgrounds are welcome – you can do it!
Presenters
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Lisa Factora-Borchers

Lisa Factora-Borchers is a Filipina American writer, poet, and editor of Dear Sister: Letters from Survivors of Sexual Violence (AK Press, 2014).
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Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Alexis Pauline Gumbs is the author of M Archive: After the End of the World, Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity, Mobile Homecoming
Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a queer black troublemaker and a black feminist love evangelist based in Durham, NC.
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China Martens

China Martens is a Baltimore writer and low-income empty-nest single-mother of a 30-year-old. Her first book, "The Future Generation", was recently re-issued (with a new afterword by her grown daughter) and is a compilation of 16 years of her first zine. She is a co-editor of "Don`t Leave Your Friends Behind: Concrete Ways To Support Families In Social Justice Movements & Communities" and "Revolutionary Mothering: Love On The Front Lines." Since 2003, China has facilitated workshops to create support for parents and children in activist and radical communities. In 2009, she co-founded Kidz City, a radical childcare collective in Baltimore. For more about her writing: http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/chinamartens, author
China Martens is a Baltimore writer and a zinestress extraordinaire. She is the author/co-editor of three books. Her first book, "The Future Generation", is a compilation of 16 years of her first zine. She is also the co-editor of "Don't Leave Your Friends Behind: Concrete Ways To... Read More →

Friday June 16, 2017 11:00am - 12:30pm EDT
Student Center: Room 285
  Panel-Presentation

11:00am EDT

The Art of Detroit's Resistance
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The Detroit ‘revitalization’ narrative dominates headlines while our communities continue to resist water shut-offs, foreclosures, environmental racism and school closings. A panel of artist-organizers will share their contributions to justice movements in Detroit in the efforts to cultivate actual vitality that is sustainable and rooted in humanity. By exchanging strategies of creative resistance we will grow our imaginations as we continue to resist and reimagine our future!
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Antonio Cosme

SouthWest Grows
Antonio Cosme is an indigenous writer, public speaker, entrepreneur, educator, artist, bee keeper and farmer from Southwest, Detroit. His work has been dedicated to lecturing, writing, and acting in opposition to the neoliberal assault on Detroit and water.
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Wayne Curtis

Feedom Freedom
Wayne Curtis is a artist, farmer and revolutionary. With roots in the Black Panther Party, Baba Wayne has a long legacy of justice work and caring for his community.
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Bryce Detroit

As a co-founder of ONE MILE project, Detroit Afrikan Music Institution, and founder of Detroit Recordings Company, he uses entertainment arts and community cultural legacies to promote new Afrikan and Indigenous narratives, cultural literacies, and new cooperative music economies... Read More →
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Ingrid LaFleur

Ingrid LaFleur is a cultural producer, arts advocate, curatorial director of House Opera l Opera House, and founder of AFROTOPIA. LaFleur has developed and organized art exhibitions both nationally and internationally with a curatorial focus on Afrofuturism. As guest curator at the... Read More →
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Stephanie Mae

Stephanie Mae is a teaching artist and organizer in the Detroit community work centers around art, healing and resistance, fueled by love and magick., LivingArts, MIRA, DRCC
Stephanie is a visual artist, educator and curator that believes art is an essential tool of resistance and resilience.
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Michelle Martinez

Michelle is a Latinx Mestiza mama from SW Detroit. Over the last decade she's struggled too grow the Environmental Justice Movement in post-industrial Detroit through creativity and collectivity across identity for all our relations.
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Shanna Merola

National Lawyers Guild
Shanna is artist, activist legal worker, and documentary photographer. She uses her photography to capture civil rights abuses and the resulting creative resistance in Detroit and across the country.

Friday June 16, 2017 11:00am - 12:30pm EDT
McGregor: Room F/G/H
  Panel-Presentation

11:00am EDT

Fact Checking Fake vs. Real News
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Librarian Edna Ewell and tech activist Kendra Moyer will discuss fact checking using the CRAAP system of web research. The CRAAP method tests sources on the web for Currency, Relevance, Authority, Accuracy, and Purpose in verifying journalists' sources. We’ll also explore tools that support journalists like PGP encryption, EFF's Surveillance Self Defense, the Guardian Project, and Secure Drop for protecting vulnerable sources.
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Edna Ewell

Inner City Voice
Edna Ewell is an Oxford Fellow and Wayne State University Library Science alumni. She is a Professor Emerita and librarian retired from Eastern Michigan University. She has been a revolutionary labor activist in the Detroit area for over 50 years and continues in The Struggle with... Read More →
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Kendra Moyer

May First People Link, The Tehuti Technology Project
Kendra Moyer is a tech activist sharing knowledge with under served communities. She is a mentor in the Outreachy Program and MLIS candidate at Wayne State. She is also active in tech support with May First People Link and an editor of The Inner City Voice.

Friday June 16, 2017 11:00am - 12:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 127
  Strategy Session

11:00am EDT

Kreung Cooking: Cambodian Pickles Part 1
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The Khmer Rouge genocide not only erased millions of lives, it aimed to eradicate culture, leaving a massive rift between young and old Cambodians. This workshop will engage participants in cooking traditional foods within an intergenerational dialogue about trauma and healing. Chef Chinchakriya, her mother, and aunt will teach Cambodian pickle making and share the cultural significance and history of the foods being prepared. Participants will be assisting in the preparation of the Kreung AMC dinner and will take home their own pickles!
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Chinchakriya Un

Chinchakriya (Char) Un is an artist/chef who creates space to share personal narratives through food. She explores memories both personal and shared, familial and societal, which highlight inherited trauma within the global Cambodian community. Char's food, her mother's food and... Read More →

Friday June 16, 2017 11:00am - 12:30pm EDT
Shuttle Stop: Anthony Wayne & Kirby
  Tour/Field Trip

11:00am EDT

Design Justice Exhibition
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What do design practices rooted in community collaboration and committed to social justice look like? This exhibit features text and images that tell stories of designers working as creative facilitators and embracing new, just, approaches to design. During this interactive session, we will engage the audience in a discussion and a presentation of our findings. The exhibit will be on display throughout the conference.
Presenters
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Taylor Stewart

Design Justice Network
Taylor Stewart is a graphic artist currently residing in Metro Detroit. As a creative, Stewart seeks to find and guide others into sustainable understandings of self. Using creative expression as a tool of research, she continues to analysis, critique and educate on the complexities... Read More →
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Wes Taylor

Design Justice Network
Wes is a Detroit based graphic designer, fine artist, musician, and curator. His collective, Complex Movements, creates immersive interactive performances deeply rooted in social justice and movement building. He is co-founder of Emergence Media. He is co-founder of Talking Dolls... Read More →

Friday June 16, 2017 11:00am - Sunday June 18, 2017 3:00pm EDT
McGregor: Room B/C
  Film Screening-Performance

11:00am EDT

Black Unicorn Pop-Up Library
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The Radical, Libraries, Archives and Museums track (RadLAM) commemorates the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Detroit Rebellion in the Black Unicorn Pop-Up Library. RadLAM will coordinate programs highlighting the history of resistance and social justice in Detroit. The pop-up library will serve as a space for collecting oral histories, editing Wikipedia pages, and brainstorming strategies for the current resistance movement.
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Bekezela Mguni

Black Unicorn Library and Archives Project Founder, and Radical Libraries, Archives and Museums track co-coordinator
Bekezela Mguni is a radical librarian, activist, artist and abundant bodied femme. She holds an MLIS from the University of Pittsburgh and participated in the first Librarians & Archivists to Palestine delegation in June 2013. She works as the Youth Services Librarian at Sto-Rox Library... Read More →
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Celeste Â-Re, MSLIS, PhD

Radical Libraries, Archives + Museums Coordinator
Celeste Â-Re is a co-coordinator of the Radical Libraries, Archives + Museums (RadLAM) network gathering. Â-Re seeks to understand how culture, memory, and information workers use community informatics to bridge solidarity and support social justice work. They are a tecnical services... Read More →

Friday June 16, 2017 11:00am - Sunday June 18, 2017 3:00pm EDT
McGregor: Room D
  Practice Space session

12:45pm EDT

Alternative Teaching Practice: FemTechNet
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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
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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

Black Touch: A Somatic Healing Space
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Black people need the medicine of our bodies. In a society that demonizes and hypersexualizes black bodies touching, we create a container for liberatory physical dialogue to bring connection, unity, and transformation. Participants will explore somatic techniques rooted in compassion and shared presence, releasing tension and recalling our innate worth and value as beings. Together we share the wisdom of our bodies to organize and heal, to affirm that we are not alone.
Presenters
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Angela Davis Johnson

Collective Member, The Hollerin Space
Angela Davis Johnson comes from generations of healers and creators. Informed by their wisdom, she creates paintings, installations, and performances to examine and archive the technologies of black folks. Merging art into a contemplative practice she embodies Live Dreaming - a process... Read More →
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nyx zierhut

nyx zierhut is a multiracial black genderqueer performance artist, dancer, and poet. a creator of visceral aesthetic and, Alternate Roots
nyx zierhut is a multiracial black genderqueer performance artist, choreographer, dancer, and poet. a creator of visceral aesthetic and political interventions, their praxis and survival are nourished by ritual, somatic healing, and contemplative movement traditions. nyx cultivates... Read More →

Friday June 16, 2017 12:45pm - 1:45pm EDT
McGregor: Room L/M
  Hands-on Session

12:45pm EDT

Creating All-Black Spaces
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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.
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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
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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.
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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 →
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Friday June 16, 2017 12:45pm - 1:45pm EDT
Student Center: Room 020
  Mealtime Meetup

12:45pm EDT

Detroit UNESCO City of Design conversation
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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.
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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

Developing Resilient Data Infrastructures
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How do you maintain access to important public data amidst political instability and risk? While Trump's election motivated rapid data preservation efforts, we are faced with long-standing data infrastructure vulnerability. Starting with DataRescue's paths--technical preservation, community organizing, and storytelling--we will collaboratively strategize how to strengthen networks addressing this problem and envision a more resilient infrastructure for data vital to community-based activism.

This is a brown bag meetup so feel free to bring your lunch! 
Presenters
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Justin Schell

University of Michigan Library - Shapiro Design Lab
Justin Schell is the Director of the Shapiro Design Lab, a peer learning and project design community at the University of Michigan Library. Passionate about all things community and citizen science, he has helped organize Data Rescue events across the country. He is also the founder... Read More →
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Dawn Walker

Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI)
Dawn Walker facilitates community management for EDGI, co-organizers for Toronto Mesh, and is a PhD student at the Faculty of Information. Passionate about building capacity within communities, her research focuses on participation in civic technology and design practices. Her previous... Read More →

Friday June 16, 2017 12:45pm - 1:45pm EDT
State Hall: Room 131
  Mealtime Meetup

12:45pm EDT

Healers Rise Up
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Let's awaken, nurture, and support the healer, artist, and freedom fighter in each of us. With our ancestors’ guidance and collective wisdom, we will connect with our healing justice magic by strengthening, mirroring, and learning from each other's practices in community. We hope to reclaim and build a necessary healing culture in our movements.
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Friday June 16, 2017 12:45pm - 1:45pm EDT
State Hall: Room 111
  Mealtime Meetup

12:45pm EDT

Lunch Love: Parents & Child Caregivers
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How do we raise children to be the architects of a new world while we're still in this one? This space is for parents and caregivers of children to share experiences and ideas about child rearing in topic-based, small group discussions. Participants will leave feeling validated, challenged and supported by a new network of friends. Vegan lunch with gluten-free options provided as well as lunchtime childcare. Weather permitting, we will meet on the lawn outside the North entrance to McGregor.
Presenters
avatar for Robin Markle

Robin Markle

Robin Markle is an artist, organizer and revolutionary witch practicing their crafts in West Philadelphia. They often collaborate with local organizations on art pieces to aid in the group`s political work, namely Decarcerate PA and the Coalition to Abolish Death by Incarceration. When they`re not in a meeting, Robin can be found cooking up a scheme, a spell or a meal and selling queer altar candles at FlamingIdols.com., Philly Childcare Collective
Robin Markle is an artist, organizer and revolutionary witch practicing their crafts in West Philadelphia. They are a coordinator of the Philly Childcare Collective, a member of Decarcerate PA, and an instigator in their housing co-op, the Life Center Association. When they're not... Read More →
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Phuong Nguyen

M.A.R.CH. (Memphis Advocates for Radical Childcare)
Phuong is mama to Nathily, a 3 year-old who loves fixing things and the color green. Thily has transformed Phuong's world in beautiful & challenging ways, and sparked her learning of radical childcare and revolutionary mothering. The creation of M.A.R.CH. is one example of a Thily-inspired... Read More →
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Jayanni Webster

M.A.R.CH. (Memphis Advocates for Radical Childcare)
A native of the South, Jayanni finds her roots and makes home in Memphis, TN. She currently works as the West Tennessee organizer for United Campus Workers -- TN's higher education union. Her praxis pulls from the traditions of intersectionalism, Black feminism and popular education... Read More →

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

12:45pm EDT

Making Abolitionist Media
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What kind of media work will it take to imagine how we may abolish prisons and police? This lunch session will introduce abolitionist media-making and explore different tech tools and strategies for working at the intersection of media-based organizing and resistance to criminalization, imprisonment, and deportation. We'll exchange tactics for demystifying the root problems abolition seeks to address, and facilitative leadership methods to advance the needs of communities, families, and individuals most violently impacted by the carceral state (that is prisons, police, borders, and surveillance). Let's expand our ability to struggle against the ways in which these forces impact our daily lives and create spaces where we can both imagine and remake our world anew. Homemade lunch will be provided at 12:45.
Friday June 16, 2017 12:45pm - 1:45pm EDT
Student Center: Hilberry D
  Mealtime Meetup

12:45pm EDT

Pulling Strings at ArtPrize 2017
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Do you want to help organize a large-scale creative and political spectacle at ArtPrize 2017, in protest of DeVos family policies? (ArtPrize is funded partially with DeVos family money.) We will discuss how to leverage ArtPrize’s media assets to showcase artistic opposition in all of its various forms. Participants will come up with a master plan to use ArtPrize as a magnet and launchpad attracting artists worldwide for three weeks of creative public political discourse through the arts.
Presenters
avatar for Mark Tucker

Mark Tucker

YES (YpsilantiExperimentalSpace)
Prior to teaching art in the Lloyd Hall Scholars Program at the University of Michigan teaching Mark was the Art Director for the Michigan Thanksgiving Parade and worked as a free-lance scenic designer and painter. Mark is the founder of two annual public art events called FestiFools... Read More →

Friday June 16, 2017 12:45pm - 1:45pm EDT
State Hall: Room 115
  Mealtime Meetup

12:45pm EDT

Sarma: Diaspora of the Caucasus and Middle East
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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

Dreaming from the Archive
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Join us to envision a public access archive facilitated by Democracy Now! interns. The workshop will establish a conversation between the archive and media makers in order to create a project that reflects the needs of the community and provides concrete examples of how the archive can be used as an actionable tool. The workshop aims to provide answers to the following questions: What content? What format? What perspectives are underrepresented in archive-based media projects?
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Sammy Didonato

Democracy Now!
Sammy Didonato is a young, but long time organizer and media maker from Baltimore City. He is part of a collective that organized jail support during the Uprising in Baltimore and which continues to provide support for people incarcerated in the city jail. He also has spent time volunteering... Read More →
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Cristina Fontánez Rodríguez

NDSR Art Resident, Maryland Institute College of Art
Cristina Fontánez holds a Master's degree in Library and Information Science and a certificate in Archives and Preservation of Cultural Materials. Her Interests include community and digital archives, oral history and, the role of social justice in archival science. She is currently... Read More →
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Cheyenne Wyzzard-Jones

Cheyenne Wyzzard-Jones an Intern in Democracy Now!'s Education Department and Co-Founder of Women of Color in Solidarity. As a community educator, her focus is centered on disrupting colonial legacies of education within teaching curriculum and practices, specifically in communities... Read More →

Friday June 16, 2017 12:45pm - 1:45pm EDT
State Hall: Room 123
  Strategy Session

12:45pm EDT

Pro Heaux: Sex Positivity From the Ground Up
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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
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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 →

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

2:00pm EDT

The Remedy - Afrosonic Liberation Sessions
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How does sound and vibration work as an integral modality for self care and healing? The Remedy is an interactive sound session that creates an hour long audio recording using both professional equipment and the smart phones of participants. We utilize the participants voices to create and record stereophonic Om’s, chants and affirmations.The intended outcome will be a meditation and affirmation track available for individual use as a precise strategy for healing.

Friday June 16, 2017 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
Student Center: Room 285

2:00pm EDT

Police Brutality Across Borders: FTP and the Missing 43
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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.
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Friday June 16, 2017 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 128
  Film Screening-Performance

2:00pm EDT

QTIPOC are Living Mythologies
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QTIPOC are living mythologies, shifting the narratives and paradigms of our current world into a new one. Through the performances of four femmes of color – Chella Coleman, Edxie Betts, Reyna Ripper, and Jose Richard – strung together by the musical narration of Shruti Purkayastha, "Living Mythologies" creates layered truths for other Queer, Trans, Intersex People of Color, allowing us to access intuition and imagination for a new paradigm.
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Jose Richard Aviles

Jose Richard Aviles is a student at USC's School of Social Work. As a social work student, their focus is around dance therapy and working with LGBT queer youth communities. They have performed at University of Southern California, St Olaf College, University of Redlands, REDCAT Studio... Read More →
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Edxie Betts

Edxie Betts is a liberation artist, Afr@PilipinxSiksika, 2 Spirited Black Heyóka Engkantada. They hope to challenge the hubris of huMANities normalcy, Authority and static ways of being. Through threatening thunderous tongue in critique and pain-filled laughter, they aim to transform... Read More →
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Chella Coleman

Chella Coleman (Godesx) is an artist seeking to use art as a tool for liberation and healing. She helps oppressed communities find their voice.
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Shruti Purkayastha

Living Mythologies and TeAda Productions
Shruti Bala Purkayastha (Heart Oracle) is the director/curator of Living Mythologies. They are a cultural worker who creates in the intersections of theater, organizing and healing. They believe that truth-speaking is central to creating a new world. They work with TeAda Productions... Read More →
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Reyna Ripper

Reyna Ripper is an experimental harsh noise artist who explores themes of darkness, death and temptation. To hear some of Reyna's work, please see: https://soundcloud.com/reyna-the-ripper

Friday June 16, 2017 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
Student Center: Room 025
  Film Screening-Performance

2:00pm EDT

Community Archiving for Audiovisual Recordings
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Most cultural community organizations have audiovisual collections, which include legacy recordings, yet have no idea how to plan to preserve them. This workshop provides an overview of the skills and resources needed to gain intellectual and physical control over an audiovisual collection. Drawing on over six years of experience, the Community Archiving Workshop has developed a toolkit which we will share. Participants will learn how to identify various audiovisual formats and risk factors, and make preservation recommendations for audiovisual collections.
Presenters
avatar for Moriah Ulinskas

Moriah Ulinskas

Community Archiving Workshop
Moriah Ulinskas is an archivist and moving image preservationist whose work seeks out and supports collections which fall outside mainstream historical narratives and major institutions. She is the Diversity Committee Chair for the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA), has... Read More →

Friday June 16, 2017 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 123
  Hands-on Session

2:00pm EDT

Community Led Business Models
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How do we deconstruct economic cultures and shift towards sustainable models built on love, social justice and community support? In this skillshare we will examine the history of these models in South Texas, explore our shared working experiences and the challenges and solutions we have encountered. Participants will have interactive opportunities to try out social media marketing, pop-up market organizing and reflect on economic models in their home communities.
Presenters
avatar for Beto De Leon

Beto De Leon

Southwest Worker's Union
Beto De León is a queer organizer based out of San Antonio, TX. He is the co-founder of Sol Y Luna Soaps and the Queer the Cheer Annual Market which promotes Trans/LGBQ talent and art each winter as part of the SAQ Collective. He is also focused on maintaining the plant based traditions... Read More →
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Diana Lopez

Southwest Workers Union
Diana Lopez is a Xicana born and raised in San Antonio, TX. Her work with Southwest Workers Union involves linking issues around environmental justice, living wage and accountable governance. SWU works to reframe public policy to protect the community and include the voices of local... Read More →
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Cristina Martinez

Very That
Cristina Martinez is a full time artist and online hustler based in the South Side of San Antonio, TX. Born of immigrant parents, Spanish was her first language, Spanglish is her current. Today you can find Cristina in and around San Antonio setting up at events, organizing local... Read More →

Friday June 16, 2017 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 125
  Hands-on Session

2:00pm EDT

Digital Timelines for Movement Organizing
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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
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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

Expressive Electronics
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In this session we will explore how libraries can celebrate girls' intersectional identities and promote computational thinking skills through the use of low-cost, expressive electronics activities. Participants will create an expressive work using paper electronics and learn about a curriculum co-developed by librarians from Ypsilanti District Library (MI), Imperial County Free Library (CA), Tempe Public Library (AZ) and researchers from the University of Michigan’s School of Information.
Presenters
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Patricia Garcia

Assistant Professor, Feminist Data ManifestNO - School of Information, University of Michigan
Pat specializes in research on race, gender, and technology. She studies how culturally responsive practices can promote computing participation among youth of color. She leads active partnerships with various groups from Black Girls Rock! to Ypsilanti District Library.
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Laura-Ann Jacobs

University of Michigan, School of Education
Laura-Ann Jacobs is a doctoral student in the School of Education at the University of Michigan. She explores how performance and expression can be integral parts of learning.
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Jennifer Mann

Ypsilanti District Library
Jennifer Mann is the teen librarian for the Ypsilanti District Library. She has been a librarian for the past 10 years and is committed to youth advocacy and social justice issues.

Friday June 16, 2017 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 127
  Hands-on Session

2:00pm EDT

Feminist Transformative Justice Writing Workshop
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In a media landscape where "justice" means punishment, is it possible to do journalism in the service of feminist, transformative justice? Our session will focus on what it means to write toward transformative justice. We will reflect on how the media impacts "justice," particularly in relation to women of color, and will discuss articles written through a feminist transformative lens. Participants will create the opening paragraph of an op-ed.
Presenters
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claudia garcia-rojas

Claudia Garcia-Rojas is a Chicago-based anti-sexual violence advocate, educator, writer, and radio personality. Claudia is co-author of the groundbreaking media guide “Reporting on Sexual Violence: A Toolkit to Better Media Coverage” which was published by the Chicago Taskforce on Violence Against Girls & Young Women, a grassroots organization she co-directs. Claudia also organizes with Love & Protect, a grassroots organization that supports those who identify as women and gender non-conforming persons of color who are criminalized or harmed by state and interpersonal violence. Additionally, Claudia is a Chicago Public Media radio commentator, co-host, and producer and a contributing writer to different media outlets. She is currently completing a PhD in Black Studies at Northwestern University., Love & Protect, The Chicago Taskforce on Violence Against Girls & Young Women
Claudia Garcia-Rojas is a Chicago-based writer, media commentator and organizer. She is co-author of Reporting on Rape & Sexual Violence: A Media Toolkit for Journalists to Better Media Coverage, which was published through the Chicago Taskforce on Violence Against Girls & Young Women... Read More →
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Maya Schenwar

Truthout
Maya Schenwar is the author of Locked Down, Locked Out: Why Prison Doesn't Work and How We Can Do Better, and is Editor-in-Chief of Truthout. She has written about the prison-industrial complex for Truthout, The New York Times, The Guardian, The Nation, Salon, Ms. Magazine, and others... Read More →

Friday June 16, 2017 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 129
  Hands-on Session

2:00pm EDT

Holding Space Part 1: Strategies for Anti Oppressive Facilitation
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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.
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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 →
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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
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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.
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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

The Nuts and Bolts of Fundraising From Foundations
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Do you want to apply for grants but don’t know where to start? Do you want to learn about resources for groups without 501c3 status? Join Third Wave Fund for an intro to philanthropy and foundation staff relationship development. Together we’ll walk through the process of seeking funding – from research, to approval or rejection, following up and more. Bring an idea that you want funded for some interactive exercises and leave with next steps for your fundraising adventure!
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Joy Messinger

Joy Messinger is a queer, disabled, femme organizer of spreadsheets, funding, and people to build sustainability, healing, wellness, and power for reproductive justice, queer and trans liberation, and disabled, migrant, and POC communities. As Third Wave Fund`s Program Officer, she oversees Third Wave`s rapid response, multi-year general support, and capacity building grantmaking and supports its cross-sector philanthropic advocacy. When she`s not working, Joy spends time reading, cooking, gardening, and learning about herbal medicine., Third Wave Fund
Joy Messinger is a queer, disabled, femme organizer of spreadsheets, funding, and people to build sustainability, healing, wellness, and power for reproductive justice, queer and trans liberation, and disabled, migrant, and POC communities. As Third Wave Fund's Program Officer, she... Read More →

Friday June 16, 2017 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
McGregor: Room L/M
  Hands-on Session

2:00pm EDT

Your Problems Are Relevant
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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.
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Sharia Cook

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

Impact, Storytelling, and Community Archives
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The connections between impact studies, social justice, and records are gaining increasing prominence in the archival discourse. This panel will involve three researchers and professionals in this field: Wendy Duff, Samip Mallick, and Ricardo Punzalan. Panelists will use their original research to discuss the relationship between storytelling and impact in community archives, as it relates to contemporary political and social issues.
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Wendy Duff

Faculty of Information - University of Toronto
Wendy Duff is a professor and Dean in the Faculty of Information where she teaches courses in the areas of archival access and community archives. Her research and publications focus on the trustworthiness of records in analogue and digital environments, archives and archival finding... Read More →
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Samip Mallick

South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA)
Samip Mallick is the co-founder and Executive Director of the South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA). His current research concerns the “Where We Belong: Artists in the Archive" project, in which five South Asian American artists are engaging SAADA’s archives to find inspiration... Read More →
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Ricardo L. Punzalan

Assistant Professor, College of Information Studies, University of Maryland
Dr. Punzalan is an assistant professor of archives and digital curation at the University of Maryland, College Park and the current Chair of SAA's Native American Archives Section. His research examines the social impact of access to digitized ethnographic archives.

Friday June 16, 2017 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 114
  Panel-Presentation

2:00pm EDT

Meme On: BIPOC Punk Fest Organizing In The Age of Dinosaurs
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In 2009, two friends started a small DIY punk fest as an alternative to the corporatization of punk and alternative music. In 2017, organizers based in three cities – New Orleans, Oakland, and Chicago – utilized similar tactics. With organizers from Nola's Deep Cuts, Oakland's The Universe Is Lit and Chicago's Black & Brown Punk Show, let's explore collective fest organizing as a tool of collective resistance, re-memory, and money redistribution in communities of color. Bring data for an interactive timeline where participants and panels trace the diverse timelines of punk/alt musicians-of-color organizing in the U.S.
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Andres Alvarez

The Black & Brown Punk Show Collective
Andres Alvarez is a queer brown femme DIY artist who as a part of Chicago's DIY queer punk scene helps to organize benefit events that raise thousands for different orgs serving black and PoC trans and queer communities . A featured writer in Brown & Proud Press' "Deconstructing Anti-Blackness... Read More →
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Shanna Collins

Black & Brown Punk Show Collective
Shanna Collins is a graffiti artist, journalist, and hood futurist. She has written for VIBE magazine, penning articles pertaining to police abolition, colonialism, mass incarceration, queerness, hip-hop, and punk rock. She believes in the radical power of the pen, D-I-Y culture... Read More →
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Aba Essel

aba. baaba. baaba blacksheep. a blacksheep. bitch. abusive. toxic. self-destructive. misunderstood. trauma survivor. bag lady. life long student. here to learn. daydreamer. community organizer. listener. dissociating alien. self-aware. mover. shaker. musician. lover. squishy empath... Read More →
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Abraham (Token) Martinez

Black & Brown Punk Show Collective
Token is a brown artist, organizer, self taught musician, & urban farmer based in Chicago. Token has been involved with Chi's Black and Brown Punk Show since the beginning. either as a performer or its chief visual artist whose work has been exhibited in galleries across Midwest... Read More →
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Donté Oxun

Black & Brown Punk Show Collective
Donté Oxun was a founding member of the original Black & Brown Punk Show Collective in 2009, is currently a (inter)nationally acclaimed Fest Curator, Tarot Wiz, Porn Star, DJ, who is currently based in New Orleans. Named "30 LGBTQs Under 30" by WIndy City Media Group, Donté is preparing... Read More →
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Shawna Shawnté

the Universe is Lit: A Bay Area Black and Brown Punk Fest
Shawna Shawnté is a queer DJ and multi-media artist based in Oakland, CA. She has appeared in the film TattleTale Heart and in the Hanky Code Series. A self-taught musician, she's played in many bands in the Bay Area. Most currently she drums in the gospel inspired no-wave trio... Read More →

Friday June 16, 2017 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
Student Center: Hilberry A
  Panel-Presentation

2:00pm EDT

Pathways for Youth Voice in Public Media
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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.
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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
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Friday June 16, 2017 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 135
  Panel-Presentation

2:00pm EDT

Poet as Witness
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Writ Large Press presents five poets who will read their work and discuss their roles as documentarians and witnesses. Rachel Kaminer and Rocío Carlos share their collaborative project, Attendance, attending to their daily lives and the nature that surrounds them. F. Douglas Brown shares from Zero to Three and his new book Frederick Douglass. Ashaki M. Jackson's shares work from her book Surveillance, an examination of videos of police killing civilians and the public's consumption of these videos, and Jen Hofer discusses how documentary poetry impacts her work as writer, translator, and educator.
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F. Douglas Brown

F. Douglas Brown of Los Angeles is author of Zero to Three (University of Georgia 2014), the 2013 Cave Canem Poetry Prize recipient. He also co-authored with poet Geffrey Davis, Begotten (Upper Rubber Boot Books 2016). He is both a Cave Canem and Kundiman fellow. He is co-founder... Read More →
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Rocío Carlos

Rocío Carlos was born and raised in the South/East areas of Los Angeles. Rocío has been reading her work all over L.A. since 1993. In 2003 she was chosen as a recipient of PEN USA’s Emerging Voices/Rosenthal fellowship. She is a graduate of the Creative Writing MFA program at... Read More →
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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 →
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Chiwan Choi

CHIWAN CHOI is the author of 3 collections of poetry, The Flood (Tía Chucha Press, 2010), Abductions (Writ Large Press, 2012), and The Yellow House (CCM, 2017). He wrote, presented, and destroyed the novel Ghostmaker throughout the course of 2015. Chiwan is a partner at Writ Large Press, a Los Angeles based indie publisher, focused on using literary arts to resist, disrupt, and transgress., Writ Large Press
Chiwan Choi is the author of 3 collections of poetry, The Flood (Tía Chucha Press, 2010), Abductions (Writ Large Press, 2012), and The Yellow House (CCM, 2017). His work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Entropy, Spiral Orb and the anthologies Coiled Serpent, ATTN, and... Read More →
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Jen Hofer

Jen Hofer is a Los Angeles-based poet, translator, social justice interpreter, teacher, knitter, book-maker, public letter-writer, urban cyclist, and co-founder of the language justice and literary activism collaborative Antena. Her recent and forthcoming books are available from... Read More →
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Rachel McLeod Kaminer

Rachel McLeod Kaminer grew up in the Blue Ridge of the Appalachian Mountains near the French Broad River. She lives and works in the Los Ángeles River Basin. Her book of poetry As in the dark, descend was published this year with Writ Large Press; she’s currently collaborating... Read More →

Friday June 16, 2017 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
McGregor: Room F/G/H
  Panel-Presentation

2:00pm EDT

SNCC Digital: Learn from the Past, Organize for the Future
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How do you use collaborative storytelling to challenge the mainstream historical narrative? This session will explore how movement veterans, scholars, and archivists developed a vision for the SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) Digital Gateway and used digital tools to document SNCC’s history of grassroots organizing for the next generation. Participants will leave with strategies for forging meaningful community partnerships that allow us to tell more inclusive, empowering histories.
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Kaley Deal

SNCC Digital Gateway
Kaley Deal is the project coordinator for the SNCC Digital Gateway: Learn from the Past, Organize for the Future, Make Democracy Work. For the past three years she has been involved in this collaborative endeavor to tell the history of SNCC and uplift stories of grassroots organizing... Read More →
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Judy Richardson

SNCC Legacy Project
Judy Richardson is a filmmaker, author, and veteran of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). As a documentary producer, she worked on the fourteen-hour PBS series Eyes on the Prize and co-edited the book, Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC... Read More →

Friday June 16, 2017 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 106
  Panel-Presentation

2:00pm EDT

What Can a Party Change? On Party Noire and the Black Renaissance
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What is the impact of Party Noire, as a celebratory space for young, black, creative intellectuals and for black queer femme and trans artists/activists? We will explore the implications of Party Noire as a unique space situated in Black history. We will share how to drive a mission-focused collective that is celebratory and healing for Black women across the gender spectrum. Participants will leave with insights into how to think about the possibilities of Black Joy centered spaces. 
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Nick Adler

"Nickecia “Nick” Alder is creator & editor-in-chief of Black Girl Fly Mag, and co-founder of Party Noire. She is a doctoral candidate & researcher, & digital content creator & strategist, engineering online communities and digital stories that celebrate the complexities of Black... Read More →
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Lauren Ash

Founder and Executive Director, Black Girl in Om
Lauren Ash is a multifaceted creative entrepreneur and visionary most-recognized for her leadership prioritizing black women in the wellness and editorial fields. As the Founder and Creative Director of Black Girl In Om, she promotes holistic wellness for women of color through BGIO’s... Read More →
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RJ Elderidge

Party Noire. Art Institute of Chicago. Young Chicago Authors
RJ Eldridge is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and educator. A graduate of the University of South Florida’s graduate program in Africana Studies, where his studies focused on literature and critical theory, His current projects include an ongoing photographic study and documentation... Read More →
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Britt Julious

"Britt Julious is a writer whose work focuses on the intersection of music, art, race, feminism, culture and politics. She is a firm believer in the underground, the avant garde and the underdog.Britt also serves as a moderator, panelist and guest speaker for organizations, schools... Read More →
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Rae Taylor

Black Eutopia
N/A right now

Friday June 16, 2017 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 113
  Panel-Presentation

2:00pm EDT

From Growing Our Economy to Growing Our Souls Tour Part 1
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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.
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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

'WITH YOU!': A Queer Sports Rom-Com
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WITH YOU! is a queer sports rom-com about a U.S. college rugby team's love for the game and each other, brought to the stage via one person's body. A hilarious show about figuring out which team to play for, this quasi-autobiographical comedy is award-winning performer/playwright Una Aya Osato’s newest show. Based on her experiences playing college rugby for Wesleyan University, Una brings together her love of rom-coms and sports films into a hard-hitting play, equally tough on the body and the heart.
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Michi Osato

brASS: Brown RadicalAss Burlesque
Michi Ilona Osato aka sister selva’s germinated & sprouted in the concrete of NYC. Co-founder of brASS Burlesque, 2015 Queen of the Texas Burlesque Festival & Audience Choice Award winner. She’s spread her seedlings from Joe's Pub, to Sesame Street, to impassioned dance floors... Read More →
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Una Aya Osato

brASS: Brown RadicalAss Burlesque
Una Aya Osato aka exHOTic other is queer femme Japanese Jew. She’s a co-founding member of brASS: Brown RadicalAss Burlesque. Performer, writer & educator from the far far east... of NYC. Una’s also an award-winning actor & playwright who tours her work nationally & internationally... Read More →

Friday June 16, 2017 4:00pm - 5:30pm EDT
Student Center: Room 020
  Film Screening-Performance

4:00pm EDT

Vida Muertos: Critical Genre Practice
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How can genre artworks serve as sites of resistance? The stylish, allegorical short film Vida Muertos follows a "death enforcement" agent who tracks, apprehends, and deports "dead" who have crossed illegally into the realm of the living. The film touches on immigration policy through the lens of film noir and science fiction. In this screening/workshop, participants will view the film, discuss relevant examples and critical approaches to genre in film and literature, and workshop a short outline for a political, genre-oriented creative work.
Presenters
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Thomas Javier Castillo

Assistant Professor, Bowling Green State University
Thomas Javier Castillo is a film and critical media practitioner whose projects explore memory, history, geography and identity. As a filmmaker, he creates pieces that blend politics, history, space, and place with rasquache design sensibilities, humor, and a distinctly Pocho point... Read More →

Friday June 16, 2017 4:00pm - 5:30pm EDT
Student Center: Hilberry C
  Film Screening-Performance

4:00pm EDT

Care Webs
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In this workshop we'll talk about the often feminized and undervalued work of caregiving, and the ways people and communities can create care webs for disability, chronic illness and mental health needs. We'll talk about the power dynamics of giving and receiving care, what allows us to ask for and give care well, and look at models for care collectives. Participants will leave with tools and roadmaps for how to sustainably create collective care outside of state and medical systems.
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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

couch sitter, Crip Rebel Alliance, Disability and Intersectionality Summit
I'm a writer and co-editor who has done a bunch of shit. I am that disabled, sick, autistic, you name it, Burgher/Tamil Sri Lankan/ Irish/Roma 45 year old queer femme writer, aunty, freedom dreamer and mostly a regular ass person who sits on my couch.   Ejeris Dixon and I co-edited... Read More →

Friday June 16, 2017 4:00pm - 5:30pm EDT
McGregor: Room J
  Hands-on Session

4:00pm EDT

Diggin Deep: Remixing Research
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Participants will explore how music sampling promotes research skills outside of academic institutions. We will make connections between the process of sampling music and researching. Attendees will research songs, locate samples, and create deeper connections between music and culture.
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Jordan Brown

CultureConTech
Whether using samplers, records, or live instruments, sound has always influenced Jordan's creativity. Jordan now looks deeper into how creativity and culture influences our learning process. As he encounters more alternative stories, Jordan seeks to link how we can learn from and... Read More →
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Sterling Toles

Sterling Toles is a sonic and visual artist who emerged from Detroit's hip hop scene. He attended the College for Creative Studies, where he received a BFA in Illustration. Seeing the creative process as the seed of collective healing, his personal creativity has led him to work with... Read More →

Friday June 16, 2017 4:00pm - 5:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 117
  Hands-on Session

4:00pm EDT

Holding Space Part 2: Facilitating Collective Self-Governance
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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.
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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 →
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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

Recipes of Resilience: Transforming Trauma Through Food
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What are the ways in which war and mass violence shape a community’s traditional foods and those who cook it? How can food tell a community’s story of trauma and resilience in colonized and post-conflict areas? We will connect with food-based projects using traditional foods and styles of cooking as a way to create spaces for education and healing from the trauma associated with mass violence, ethnic cleansing and the legacy of colonialism. Participants will leave with ideas for tapping into their own communities’ traditional food ways to transform and organize their people.
Presenters
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Yana Gilbuena

Yana Gilbuena, a Filipino born, global nomadic chef, started Salo Series to share the vibrant food culture of The Philippines with the world. The Salo Series hosts Filipino Kamayan dinners where food is served on communal tables covered in banana leaves and guests are asked to eat... Read More →
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Kate McCabe

Éist
Kate McCabe is a writer, organizer & the director of Éist, an organization which cultivates & promotes first-person perspectives of justice & accountability in the aftermath of war. She has more than 10 years of experience working as an organizer & advocate on behalf of victims/survivors... Read More →
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Chinchakriya Un

Chinchakriya (Char) Un is an artist/chef who creates space to share personal narratives through food. She explores memories both personal and shared, familial and societal, which highlight inherited trauma within the global Cambodian community. Char's food, her mother's food and... Read More →

Friday June 16, 2017 4:00pm - 5:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 106
  Hands-on Session

4:00pm EDT

Reimagining Food Media
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In this workshop, participants will analyze mainstream food media and create their own media using basic smartphone apps (Notes, GarageBand, iPhoto, etc., both iPhone and Android equivalents).
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Melvin Parsons

Farmer Parsons is the founder of We the People Growers Association, where he grows food to create healthy social and nutritional choices in resource poor communities.
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Stephen Satterfield

Whetstone Magazine
Stephen Satterfield is an award-winning, anthropological food writer, speaker and multimedia producer based in Oakland, CA. His background as a sommelier, restaurant manager and social entrepreneur continually inform his work. He is the founder of Whetstone Magazine, a digital and... Read More →
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Shakirah Simley

Shakirah Simley is a writer and community organizer in San Francisco. She earned her organizing chops with over a decade of working on food equity, labor and youth campaigns. The daughter of a social worker, and granddaughter of a Black Panther, she graduated with honors from the University of Pennsylvania and completed master’s at Italy’s University of Gastronomic Sciences as a Fulbright Fellow. She served as the Community Director for famed local grocer, Bi-Rite and its Family of Businesses, and in 2016, she co-founded Nourish|Resist, a multiracial collaborative using food spaces and people as tools for collective resistance. Last year, she was a prestigious Fellow for the Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture. Her writing has appeared in Civil Eats, The Huffington Post, SF Chronicle, and recently published cookbook for the revolution: "Feed the Resistance". She currently serves as the executive director of community center in the Southeast sector of SF., Nourish | Resist
Shakirah Simley is a 2017 Stone Barns Exchange Fellow. Shakirah Simley was raised in Harlem, N.Y., where her limited access to fresh, healthy and affordable food was always a challenge. As a young black woman hungry for change, she decided to dedicate her professional career and... Read More →
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Tunde Wey

LA Times, Washington Post, SFChronicle, Vice, Mother Jones and Splendid Table. That’s merely page one search results for Nigerian-born chef and writer Tunde Wey. Through his prose and cross-country dinner/lecture series, he’s clearly garnered the attention of the national med... Read More →

Friday June 16, 2017 4:00pm - 5:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 128
  Hands-on Session

4:00pm EDT

Surveillance As a Primary tool of The Stalker State
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The issue of surveillance has taken center stage over the last few years. What remains missing from the conversation is the critical examination of the role of surveillance as a primary tool of social control. Participants in this workshop will collectively map their understanding of surveillance and how they think they are traced, tracked and monitored. We will share strategies and tactics toward building a culture of resistance and abolition of the national security surveillance state.
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Jamie Garcia

Jamie Garcia is an organizer with the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition., Stop LAPD Spying Coalition
Jamie Garcia is a registered nurse and is a coordinating team member of the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition. Jamie's involvement in the coalition's work began in the winter of 2011 after she became exposed to the extensive amount of surveillance, spying, and infiltration that occurred... Read More →
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Hamid Khan

Stop LAPD Spying Coalition
Hamid Khan is the coordinator of the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition. The goal of the coalition is to raise awareness, participation, mobilization, and grassroots organizing to combat and abolish the police use of surveillance, spying and infiltration against targeted communities and social... Read More →
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mariella saba

practices popular education, cultural work, and healing arts, to collectively, creatively, and healthily uproot the genocidal set-ups of our global dis-ease., Our Data Bodies Project/Stop LAPD Spying Coalition
Cultural worker, community organizer, and healing arts practitioner. Who I am today is a collective journey Born awake, guided through every breath, every step, sun n moon to end the wars on our sacred earth bodies I am reflections and intentions of our ancestors movements for... Read More →

Friday June 16, 2017 4:00pm - 5:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 123
  Hands-on Session

4:00pm EDT

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

4:00pm EDT

What's In Your Wallet?
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What’s in your wallet? What do you know about data? The Our Data Bodies Project invites you to explore how digital and non-digital information and data are collected from us and used to impact our communities and our daily lives. We will engage in a series of activities that will equip participants with popular education tools and resources so that they can begin to develop digital awareness and defense in their communities.
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Seeta Peña Gangadharan

A mother, activist researcher, and social justice optimist born in New Jersey and working in London., Our Data Bodies Project/London School of Economics and Political Science
Seeta Peña Gangadharan is a mother, activist researcher, and social justice optimist born in New Jersey and working in London.
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Friday June 16, 2017 4:00pm - 5:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 131
  Hands-on Session
  • Audience Everyone
  • Hashtag #DatawithODB

4:00pm EDT

Civic Institutions and Youth Experiences
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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.
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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

Build an Individual Giving Program from Scratch
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Come learn how People's Action Institute has grown leaps and bounds with the following programs: Fundraising Canvass, Donor Visits, Phone and Online Fundraising, Direct Mail, and Event Fundraising. This case study will walk participants through the how and why we built up these pieces and talk honestly about our strengths, weaknesses, and lessons learned. Our model can be adopted and adapted for any organization and this session will give people concrete plans to implement at home.
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Friday June 16, 2017 4:00pm - 5:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 114
  Panel-Presentation

4:00pm EDT

Engaging Interviewing and Hosting
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Want to learn interviewing skills? Join us in the People's Pop-up Media Shop Practice Space to practice and conduct interviews.
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Friday June 16, 2017 4:00pm - 5:30pm EDT
Student Center: Hilberry D
  Panel-Presentation

4:00pm EDT

Mothering the Revolution
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We will explore mothering work and practice at the intersection of the academy and community through a critical media lens. We will discuss Black and Afro-Xicana parenting and mothering as decolonizing methodologies that draw connections between activism and mothering/parenting. We will share our work as independent media producers in the fields of K-12 education, academia, nonprofits and more.
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Cecilia Caballero

Chicana M(other)work
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Friday June 16, 2017 4:00pm - 5:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 116
  Panel-Presentation

4:00pm EDT

Design Justice Network Planning Session
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The Design Justice Network works to cultivate just design practices, so that those who are most affected by design decisions have power and agency in design processes. Now that we have formalized as a network, we will use this session to reconnect with each other and set priorities for how we will work together to implement our shared principles. By the end of the session, we will have clear next steps for our committees and members. New and potential members are welcome to join us!
Presenters
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Victoria Barnett

VICTORIA BARNETT is a freelance graphic & web designer and trainer. She spends her time designing, sharing and supporting various social movements with their communication and web presence, centered in community based social and environmental justice. She is interested in web design, education and has a background in print design. Victoria is active in JFAAP. You can find her at www.victoriabarnett.com., Design Justice Network
Victoria is a freelance graphic & web designer and trainer, who designs for social & environmental justice causes. She is an avid social media user, and spends her time designing, teaching and supporting various social movements. She is interested in web design, education and has... Read More →
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Sasha Costanza-Chock

Sasha Costanza-Chock (pronouns: they/them or she/her) is a scholar, activist, and media-maker, and currently Associate Professor of Civic Media at MIT. They are a Faculty Associate at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, Faculty Affiliate with the MIT Open Documentary Lab and the MIT Center for Civic Media, and creator of the MIT Codesign Studio (codesign.mit.edu). Their work focuses on social movements, transformative media organizing, and design justice., MIT
Sasha Costanza-Chock (they/them or she/her) is Associate Professor of Civic Media at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. They’re a scholar, activist, and media-maker who works with networked social movements, transformative media organizing, and design justice. Sasha is a... Read More →
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Taylor Stewart

Design Justice Network
Taylor Stewart is a graphic artist currently residing in Metro Detroit. As a creative, Stewart seeks to find and guide others into sustainable understandings of self. Using creative expression as a tool of research, she continues to analysis, critique and educate on the complexities... Read More →
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Wes Taylor

Design Justice Network
Wes is a Detroit based graphic designer, fine artist, musician, and curator. His collective, Complex Movements, creates immersive interactive performances deeply rooted in social justice and movement building. He is co-founder of Emergence Media. He is co-founder of Talking Dolls... Read More →

Friday June 16, 2017 4:00pm - 5:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 129
  Strategy Session

4:00pm EDT

Translating Legends: Preserving Native History of the Americas
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The Prophecy of the Condor and the Eagle says that after 500 years of darkness, all the people of the Americas will come together and fly in the same sky. In this session we will share a new crowdsourced project that aims to translate old and rare books of stories, legends, and poetry from the native american peoples into Spanish. This project will create an online bibliographic collection which will help connect the stories of the indigenous peoples of the Americas.
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LINDA ARTOLA

Linda Artola is a journalist from Nicaragua who's been living in New York since 2012. After finishing school in Nicaragua, she worked with the nonprofit organization Action Against Hunger. In New York, she has worked with CaminoPR, The They Collective, Spring Break Art Show and is... Read More →
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ELIA GRAN

Elia Gran is a Spanish, New York based journalist. She has written or collaborated with numerous american publications like The Nation, DemocracyNow!, The New York Times and works as a correspondent journalist for spanish independent newspapers like Eldiario, Diagonal and Directa... Read More →
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IGOR Moreno

DEMOCRACY NOW!
Igor Moreno is a Spanish Journalist based in New York. Igor’s career began as a TV news reporter in Barcelona. He moved to New York in 2011 searching for a different approach to independent journalism. He has collaborated with different media as Radio Ambulante, The Volunteer Magazine... Read More →
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GLENDA ROSADO

Glenda Rosado is a journalist born and raised in Puerto Rico. She collaborated with the environmental magazine Atabey, and worked for Telemundo and PODER as an intern. She is also a former Democracy Now! en Español's intern and edits her own independent blog about women's topics... Read More →

Friday June 16, 2017 4:00pm - 5:30pm EDT
Student Center: Room 285
  Strategy Session

4:00pm EDT

From Growing Our Economy to Growing Our Souls Tour Part 2
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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.
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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

6:00pm EDT

Opening Ceremony
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The Detroit Film Theater is located inside the Detroit Institute of Arts. Enter through the John R entrance. There will be shuttles from all hotels and from the Wayne State campus to the theater.

“If there was ever a time to activate our organizer super powers, this is it” wrote Alicia Garza, one week after the 2017 inauguration, in a Mic article titled “Our cynicism will not build a movement. Collaboration will.” As we gather in Detroit for the 19th annual Allied Media Conference, we are recharging our trusted super powers and synthesizing new ones. We are drawing power from movement histories and ancestral technologies. We are laying mesh networks between movements, issues, and identities. We are learning our way into emergent strategies, trusting uncertainty and seeing the large-scale implications of our smallest-scale relationships.

The AMC2017 Opening Ceremony will reflect all of this. Alicia Garza of the National Domestic Workers Alliance and co-founder of #BlackLivesMatter will give a keynote, sharing her perspectives on the power of media, art, and technology in our movements today. Scott Kurashige, author of The Fifty Year Rebellion, will ground the work of AMC in the context of Detroit as an international model for survival, resistance, and solidarity. Mona Haydar, Syrian-American Flint native, will perform her viral hit “Hijabi” live for the first time alongside Al Taw’am, the twin sisters and choreographers featured in the “Hijabi” video. The opening ceremony will also feature Kristy la rAt (co-founder of DJ collectives Maracuyeah and Anthology of Booty), and will be co-hosted by adrienne maree brown, author of Emergent Strategy and co-editor of Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements.

Presenters include: Alicia Garza, Kristy la rAt, Sacramento Knoxx, Scott Kurashige, adrienne maree brown, Mona Haydar, Al Ta’wam, Jenny Lee and Morgan Willis.
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adrienne maree brown

adrienne maree brown is author of Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds and the co-editor of Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements. She is a writer, social justice facilitator, pleasure activist, healer and doula living in Detroit., How to Survive the End of the World Podcast
adrienne is a writer, facilitator, healer and pleasure activist living in Detroit. she is Co-editor of Octavia's Brood and author of the forthcoming Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds (AK Press).
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Scott Kurashige

Scott Kurashige is author of The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic LA; The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century with Grace Lee Boggs; and The Fifty-Year Rebellion: How the U.S. Political Crisis... Read More →
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Jenny Lee

Executive Director, Allied Media Projects
Jenny Lee is the executive director of Allied Media Projects, where she has worked in various capacities since 2006. Over this period she has led the healthy growth and evolution of the organization through facilitative leadership, innovative program design, and network cultivation... Read More →
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Morgan Willis

Morgan Willis is the program director of the Allied Media Conference. She is also a writer and editor of the anthology Outside the XY: Queer, Black and Brown Masculinity. She consults with projects and organizations seeking to develop their creative, community and organizational strategies... Read More →

Friday June 16, 2017 6:00pm - 7:30pm EDT
Detroit Film Theatre 5200 Woodward Ave, Detroit, MI 48202
  • Audience Everyone
  • Hashtag #OpeningCeremony

7:00pm EDT

AMC Kids Party
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Hosted by Detroit's Cumbia Poder, this dazzling event for kids and caregivers of all ages will feature Cumbia DJs, face-painting, bubble making, exciting lights and coloring stations, live silkscreening and more. Join the AMC community as we celebrate kids with the hottest party of the summer. This community event is free and open to the public followed by a screening of the animated classic “Ferngully” hosted by the New Center Park summer series.

New Parents! Detroit Mama Hub will set up a comfortable, private space where families with young children can feed their babies, change diapers, and find a bit of rest during the party Friday June 16th at New Center Park. Staff will be on hand to answer questions and provide support. 
Friday June 16, 2017 7:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
New Center Park 2998 W Grand Blvd, Detroit, MI 48202
  AMC @ Night

7:30pm EDT

Making Space for Sobriety
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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.
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Friday June 16, 2017 7:30pm - 9:30pm EDT
Cass Commons: Memorial Hall
  Mealtime Meetup

8:00pm EDT

#MediaJustice Mixer
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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. 
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Angella Bellota

Membership Organizer, Center for Media Justice
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Friday June 16, 2017 8:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
McGregor: Room F/G/H
  Mealtime Meetup

8:00pm EDT

Get Down, Stay Ready
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A night of music collaboratively co-presented by the Seraphine Collective & Sterling Toles. The Seraphine Collective is an inclusive, supportive, and active community of feminists fostering creative expression and camaraderie among marginalized musicians and artists in Detroit. Sterling Toles is an east-side-bred, Cass-Corridor-educated Detroiter who views himself as a healer using sound.

Seraphine and Sterling have come together to curate a fabulous line-up on two stages featuring performances and sets by Malik Alston & The Linwood Ensemble, Mahogany Jones, Supercoolwicked, Satomi The Red Fox, Anthology of Booty DJ Crew (D.C., NOLA), Mel Wonder, and Misha.
Friday June 16, 2017 8:00pm - Saturday June 17, 2017 2:00am EDT
The Marble Bar 1501 Holden St, Detroit, MI 48208
  AMC @ Night

8:00pm EDT

Karaoke + Bowling
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Karaoke and unlimited bowling in the Garden Bowl, all the lanes, all night long. Karaoke is hosted by Breezee. Free for registered AMC participants.
Friday June 16, 2017 8:00pm - Saturday June 17, 2017 2:00am EDT
The Garden Bowl 4120 Woodward Ave, Detroit, MI 48201
  AMC @ Night

9:00pm EDT

Thundercunts: Boom Concepts Party
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Hosted by the coordinators of the BOOM Concepts Practice Space. Join us for music, art, and elevation hosted by Pittsburgh-based AMCers. Trap! Twerk! House! Move! With special guests featuring Detroit based DJs.
Friday June 16, 2017 9:00pm - Saturday June 17, 2017 1:00am EDT
Baltimore Gallery 314 E Baltimore Ave, Detroit, MI 48202
  AMC @ Night
 
Saturday, June 17
 

9:00am EDT

Data and Power
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State surveillance, biometrics, racist algorithms, and more – it is easy to become fearful and overwhelmed when it comes to data. And yet, our communities are resilient and full of genius. Beyond the many hands-on tools of circumvention and protection we share at the AMC, we need creativity and inspiration when it comes to data too. This plenary will highlight the work of three artists who transform the fear of data and surveillance into power and healing: instagram poetry that makes security culture accessible and compelling; a father’s FBI file reclaimed and transformed into art; an open source software for surveilling the surveyors and fostering cross-movement collaborations.
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Sasha Costanza-Chock

Sasha Costanza-Chock (pronouns: they/them or she/her) is a scholar, activist, and media-maker, and currently Associate Professor of Civic Media at MIT. They are a Faculty Associate at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, Faculty Affiliate with the MIT Open Documentary Lab and the MIT Center for Civic Media, and creator of the MIT Codesign Studio (codesign.mit.edu). Their work focuses on social movements, transformative media organizing, and design justice., MIT
Sasha Costanza-Chock (they/them or she/her) is Associate Professor of Civic Media at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. They’re a scholar, activist, and media-maker who works with networked social movements, transformative media organizing, and design justice. Sasha is a... Read More →

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Burak Arikan

Burak Arikan is a New York and Istanbul based artist. He takes the obvious social, economical, and political issues as input and runs them through an abstract machinery, which generates network maps and algorithmic interfaces, results in performances, and procreates predictions to... Read More →
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Sadie Barnette

Sadie Barnette’s multimedia practice illuminates her own family history as it mirrors a collective history of repression and resistance in the United States. Her drawings, photographs, and installations collapse time and expand possibilities. Barnette holds a BFA from CalArts and... Read More →
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Micha Cárdenas

micha cárdenas is Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences and Interactive Media Design at the University of Washington Bothell. She is the director of the Poetic Operations Collaborative, a design research lab at the University of Washington Bothell applying technological... Read More →
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Frances Lee

Frances Lee is an interdisciplinary UX/UI designer and masters student in Cultural Studies at UW Bothell. They create digital media on QTPOC safety and trans futurity in the Poetic Operations Collaborative. Frances has worked in the Austin/Seattle corporate tech industry and gives... Read More →

Saturday June 17, 2017 9:00am - 10:30am EDT
DeRoy Auditorium
  Plenary

11:00am EDT

DIY Futures Through Architectural Zines
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Why must the visualization of the future be constructed by a select few? This session will explore how spatial visualization can be developed as a collaborative process. We will learn how to utilize visualization tools which communicate individual and community needs and desires to a larger audience. Participants will walk away with an ability to visualize space over time through diorama, photography, and narrative construction. We will produce a short zine to demonstrate the process.
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Aaron Jones

Architect, Web Model Dot Space
Aaron Jones is a registered architect, illustrator, and fabricator based in Detroit, MI. Aaron produces experimental theaters, pop-up structures, comic books, performance art, and critical writing in collaboration with leading creative professionals and organizations around the world... Read More →
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Saturday June 17, 2017 11:00am - 12:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 137
  Hands-on Session

11:00am EDT

From Media to Medium: Creating Revolutionary Oracles
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An oracle is a tool that brings us clarity and allows us to move forward with love and confidence instead of being stuck in reactive feedback loops! This is a time for oracles, and they are all around us. In this workshop we will explore examples of community-generated and queer Black feminist oracles and create our own oracles together. Participants will leave with new oracles and the ability to build oracles individually and with their communities.
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Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Alexis Pauline Gumbs is the author of M Archive: After the End of the World, Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity, Mobile Homecoming
Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a queer black troublemaker and a black feminist love evangelist based in Durham, NC.
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Seneca Micheal Gumbs Morin

Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind
Seneca Micheal Gumbs Morin is a dream oracle creator and emergent video game designer. He is currently studying computer science and cognitive psychology at Vanderbilt University in order to create a link between dreams, video games and possible worlds of liberation.

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

11:00am EDT

Listening is a Revolutionary Act
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How do you make sure citizens are both informed and heard? We’ll share techniques developed by the Listening Post, a media engagement project that creates conversation around local news in New Orleans. Participants will learn creative offline strategies for community engagement such as public art, SMS, public events, and more, focused on 'news you can use' topics like housing, education, jobs, and health. Participants will get a 7-step plan for implementing a media engagement strategy in their home community.
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Burgess Brown

Internews
Burgess Brown is a community media developer and native of Macon, Georgia, where he helped establish the 2nd Listening Post project. He now lives in NYC, is a graduate student at the New School, and is helping to expand the Listening Post community media engagement model around the... Read More →
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Jesse Hardman

ListeningPost/Internews
Jesse Hardman is a public radio reporter, writer, media developer, videographer, and journalism educator. He's the creator of the Listening Post, an innovative community engagement journalism project. He's been a regular contributor to NPR, Le Monde Diplomatique, Al Jazeera and other... Read More →

Saturday June 17, 2017 11:00am - 12:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 127
  Hands-on Session

11:00am EDT

Portable Network Kits
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How will your local community communicate when a disaster hits? Team members from the Resilient Communities Program will use bad theatre, hands-on activities, and pop-ed practices to share how to set up a portable local WiFi network in a pinch. Participants will leave with skills to configure and deploy a portable network kit.
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Raul Enriquez

Technology Coordinator & Training Specialist, New America / Resilient Communities
Raul Enriquez is the technology coordinator & training specialist at New America’s Resilient Communities program. As an educator, he believes a classroom should be visceral, safe, and collaborative. Enriquez also believes food is the ideal conduit for ideas to flow throughout a... Read More →
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Katherine Ortiz

New America’s Resilient Communities
Katherine Ortiz is a program associate at New America’s Resilient Communities program. In this role, she helps communities become more resilient by training them to build their own mesh network infrastructure

Saturday June 17, 2017 11:00am - 12:30pm EDT
McGregor: Room F/G/H
  Hands-on Session

11:00am EDT

Protect Ya Self Love
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What does it mean to be a young organizer and sustain your spirit along the way? This will be an interactive workshop that considers our power to heal individually and collectively from the traumas that live in our bodies. We will share resources rooted in mindfulness meditation and sensory healing for participants to integrate into their own lives and organizing. Participants will leave with the tools to support an ongoing healing practice in their lives.
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Fayise Abrahim

Voices for Racial Justice
Fayise is the Organizing and Training Director at Voices for Racial Justice, now building and coordinating our organizing training and our Rural Organizing Network. Fayise comes to Voices with a background in popular education and community based research. Outside of Voices, she loves... Read More →
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Gabriella Anais Deal-Marquez

Youth Organizing Diretor, Voices for Racial Justice
Gabriella Anais Deal-Márquez is a Minneapolis based interdisciplinary artist and community organizer who's work looks at trauma, healing, and storytelling. She is the founder of Border Voices, which uses storytelling through poetry and spoken word to create spaces for performance... Read More →
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Puma Saballos

BLMP
Scorpio. Wise Woman. Artist, organizer, healer, a member of the youth leadership team at Voices for Racial justice. Doing this work because it demands love and respect and all she wants to receive and give.

Saturday June 17, 2017 11:00am - 12:30pm EDT
McGregor: Room J
  Hands-on Session

11:00am EDT

Transp0se: Music and Mindfulness
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This is a Nada Yoga session meant to introduce people to the ability to attain mindfulness through internal/external soundwork. Our moving meditation workshop will help participants find ways to harness the power of sound as a clarifying and unifying tool in the classroom, workplace, and everyday life. Dress comfortably!
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Hugo Genes

Transp0se
Hugo Genes holds a Masters in Integrated Media Arts & Nonfiction Filmmaking from City University of New York Hunter College and a Bachelor's in Economics from Cornell University. Hugo is a Fulbright Scholar, working with the Xavante Indians of Mato Grosso Brazil, to utilize their... Read More →
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Zach Gould

Transp0se
Zach first found yoga in 2010 while living and working in Pirambú, a favela in Fortaleza, Brazil. After face to face interactions with many Buddhist monks during a fellowship in Myanmar, Zach learned of the powerful potential in Vipassana techniques and integrated a meditative element... Read More →

Saturday June 17, 2017 11:00am - 12:30pm EDT
McGregor: Room L/M
  Hands-on Session

11:00am EDT

Visual Media and Social Movements 101
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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.
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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

Words are Spells: Daily Consent for Kids
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Traditional education is designed to train kids to "behave" and follow directions. This often leaves kids confused about appropriate and respectful ways to use their personal power. This session uses media making and theatre to creatively express and interpret radical consent for kids. Youth and caregivers will be led through a series of hands-on activities and practice using their words as spells to support and protect others against daily abuses such as bullying.
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Sicily McRaven

Radically Art Infused Detroit
Sicily is an artist living in Detroit spreading the good news of radical consent

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

11:00am EDT

360-Degree Video for Activists
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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!
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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
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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.
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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

Crowdfunding for Social Justice
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Join the national crowdfunding nonprofit ioby (in our back yards) to explore how crowdfunding can be used not only to raise cash, but also to promote community buy-in, build awareness of your work, and grow a strong local base of support over time. Through real-life case studies of successfully-funded projects, this session will give attendees a firm understanding of when and how to use crowdfunding effectively to support their work.
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Rhiannon Chester

https://www.ioby.org/about/people/rhiannon-chester, ioby
Rhiannon Chester, M.A., Detroit native and social justice educator, has been involved in grassroots movements for over 10 years. She leads facilitated discussions & workshops and creates visual art -- centered around social identity, power & privilege dynamics and humanizing marginalized... Read More →
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Joe Rashid

Detroit Action Strategist, ioby
Joe has spent his career in Detroit’s nonprofit sector, primarily in Southwest Detroit and the Brightmoor neighborhoods, working to empower and provide resources to local residents. His work is driven by the belief that community development is not a career choice, but a way of... Read More →

Saturday June 17, 2017 11:00am - 12:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 115
  Panel-Presentation

11:00am EDT

Modeling the Micropress: A Publishers’ Roundtable
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Since the mimeograph revolution of the 1950s and 60s, much of the most engaging new American poetry has emerged in magazines and books made by small writer and artist-run presses. This panel brings together seven micropress, small press, and artist publishers, working in several modes and with several press models. We’ll ask: What is micropress publishing? What are its economics, models and goals? Environmental and labor politics? How do we carry it forward in a time of increasing neoliberal precarity?
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H.R. Buechler

OXBLOOD Publishing
H.R. Buechler is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher, and founder of OXBLOOD Publishing. She is the current Victor Hammer Fellow at the Wells College Book Arts Center and former Print Production Fellow for the Journal of Artists’ Books (JAB). She holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary... Read More →
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Adjua Gargi Nzinga Greaves

The Florxal Review
Adjua Gargi Nzinga Greaves (New York City, 1980) is an artist chiefly concerned with postcolonial ethnobotany working in the mediums of scholarship, diorama, corporeal wisdom, archival gesture, and language. She lives and works in New York City where she is young mother of The Florxal... Read More →
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MC Hyland

DoubleCross Press
MC Hyland is a PhD Candidate in English Literature at New York University, and holds MFAs in Poetry and Book Arts from the University of Alabama. She researches the commons as a link between spatial practice and intellectual property in UK/commonwealth poetics, and her poetic and... Read More →
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Patricia No

Publication Studio
Patricia No is an editor, publisher and writer currently living in Portland, Oregon. She co-founded and was director of Publication Studio, is the founder and an editor at Weekday, an occasional literary journal, and runs Problem Press with Megan Stockton. She founded Publication... Read More →
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Brian Teare

Albion Books
A 2015 Pew Fellow in the Arts, Brian Teare has received fellowships from the NEA, the MacDowell Colony, Headlands Center for the Arts, the Fund for Poetry, Vermont Studio Center, and the American Antiquarian Society. He is the author of five critically acclaimed books, most recently... Read More →
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Richard Wehrenberg

MonsterHouse Press
Richard Wehrenberg, Jr. is a poet, book designer, & wolf hybrid from Cleveland, Ohio living in Bloomington, Indiana. They are the author of the pamphlet Reset North America To Default Settings, the chapbook Hands, & co-author, with Ross Gay, of River. They are the co-founder of... Read More →

Saturday June 17, 2017 11:00am - 12:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 106
  Panel-Presentation

11:00am EDT

Music Journalism For the People
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We live in serious times, and serious times call for a serious soundtrack. This session will hear from music journalists who are mapping the constellations between music and revolution. Each panelist will address the role of music in struggle, the potential of media for providing platforms for revolutionary artists, and the intersections of art, music, and journalism. Participants will learn about music projects happening across North America, and leave with ideas about starting their own.
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Sundus Abdul Hadi

The Groundbreakers
Sundus Abdul Hadi is an Iraqi-Canadian multimedia artist. She was born in the UAE, raised and educated in Montreal, where she earned a BFA in Studio Arts and Art History and is currently completing her MA in Media Studies. Her work is a subversive and sensitive documentation of current... Read More →
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Krusheska

co-producer & audio editor, Suena a Revolución
Krusheska Quirós is an afro-taina from Boriken now living in the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Tsleil-Waututh, and Squamish Coast Salish people (a.k.a. Vancouver, Canada). She is the creator, audio editor and co-producer of the podcast Suena a Revolución. Krusheska has been... Read More →
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Aaron Lakoff

Aaron Lakoff is an award-winning independent journalist, media-maker, and community organizer based in Montreal, Canada. His work combines a passion for popular education, social justice, and artistic expression. He has filed radio and written reports from several countries, including Haiti, Israel/Palestine, Mexico, Bosnia & Herzegovina, and across North America. When he isn't working, Aaron is often keeping himself busy as the producer of the successful monthly podcast, The Rebel Beat, heard by thousands of people worldwide., The Rebel Beat podcast
Aaron Lakoff is an award-winning independent journalist, media-maker, and community organizer based in Montreal, Canada. His work combines a passion for popular education, social justice, and artistic expression. He has filed radio and written reports from several countries around... Read More →
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Paola Quiros

co-producer and community relations connector, Suena a Revolucion
Paola Quiros is a Colombian migrant living in the unceded Coast Salish territories in Canada. She is a trained journalist and feminist passionate about Latinamerican music and curious about the underrepresentation of Latin American womyn in the independent music industry. She is a... Read More →

Saturday June 17, 2017 11:00am - 12:30pm EDT
Student Center: Room 025
  Panel-Presentation

11:00am EDT

Teen Presence in the National Museum of Mexican Art
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How can giving teens free reign over a museum transform that institution’s culture? We will explore how the teens of Yollocalli Arts Reach are activating the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago through a new, younger lens. We will share our role within the museum, the teen-centric events we curate, and how we sustain our movement. Participants will leave with an understanding of how the development of a youth council within a museum can generate an increase in youth attendance and engagement.
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Jennifer Aguilar

Yollocalli Arts Reach/ National Museum of Mexican Art
Jenny is a junior at Curie High School in Chicago. She has been a dedicated Yollocalli student and Youth Council member for 3 years.
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Whitney Ross

Youth Advisor, Yollocalli Arts Reach, National Museum of Mexican Art
Whitney received her BFA in Industrial Design and her Masters of Education from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She currently works as the Youth Development Advisor at Yollocalli Arts Reach, assisting students in college, career, and artistic endeavors. She is also the lead... Read More →
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Gilberto Sandoval

Yollocalli Arts Reach
Gilberto Sandoval helped create the youth council in the spring of 2012. Since then, he has become an alumni of the organization and moved on to a career at the National Museum of Mexican Art.

Saturday June 17, 2017 11:00am - 12:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 111
  Panel-Presentation

11:00am EDT

We the People of Detroit Community Research Collective
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In Detroit, data visualization and mapping is often used to support gentrification by organizations that are not accountable to the community. Activists, researchers and designers from We the People of Detroit Community Research Collective will share our work to reclaim data visualization by mapping connections between water shutoffs, school closings, tax foreclosures, and other policies that impact Detroiters. We will create a map together based on participant input.
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Emily Kutil

Professor of Architecture, University of Detroit Mercy School of Architecture
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Monica Lewis-Patrick

Co-Founder & President of We The People of Detroit: Monica Lewis-Patrick (aka The Water Warrior) is an educator, entrepreneur, and human rights activist/advocate. She has served as Director of Community Outreach & Engagement since 2009. She was unanimously elected by the Board to become the President & CEO. Lewis-Patrick is actively engaged in almost every struggle on behalf of Detroit residents. She is an active member of the People’s Water Board Coalition, US Human Rights Network, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), and D-REM.org, and was named to the World Water Justice Council in October of 2015. As a former Lead Legislative Policy Analyst for Detroit City Council, Monica has authored legislation, conducted research and delivered constituency services to thousands of city residents. Lewis-Patrick attended the historic Bennett College. She is a graduate of East Tennessee State University with a Bachelors degree in Social Work and Sociology and a Masters of Arts of Liberal Studies degree wit, We The People of Detroit
Monica Lewis-Patrick (aka The Water Warrior) is an educator, entrepreneur, human rights activist/advocate, and the President and CEO of We the People of Detroit. She is an active member of the People’s Water Board Coalition, US Human Rights Network, Inter-American Commission on... Read More →

Saturday June 17, 2017 11:00am - 12:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 117
  Panel-Presentation

11:00am EDT

DIY Embroidered Patches
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The humble fabric patch can be a simple means to mending or a brave declaration of self-determination. What language do we use to mark ourselves when existing labels are too limiting? This patch-making workshop will teach basic embroidery skills and will encourage participants to create new words and meanings to better describe themselves on their own terms.
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Lucia Calderon Arrieta

Lucia learned sewing from Abuelita and learned to call it Fiber Art from academia. She is the daughter of Peruvian immig, none
Lucia learned sewing from her abuelita and learned to call it fiber art from academia
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DIYPatch Prezentation key
Saturday June 17, 2017 11:00am - 12:30pm EDT
McGregor: Room B/C
  Practice Space session

11:00am EDT

Map the Power
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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.
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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

Mitigating Evidence
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How can arts educators interrupt the stereotypes and fears of incarcerated and court-involved youth? Our session will explore the Mitigating Evidence pedagogy designed by Free Write Arts & Literacy, a Chicago-based organization with 17 years of experience engaging incarcerated and court-involved youth in Hip Hop arts programming. Participants will share strategies to help arts educators directly connect their work to reducing recidivism and dismantling the Prison Industrial Complex.
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Roger Bonair-Agard

Program Director
Roger is a native of Trinidad & Tobago, a Cave Canem fellow, co-founder of NYC’s louderARTS Project and author of 3 collections of poems; tarnish & masquerade (Cypher Books, 2006), GULLY (Cypher Books/Peepal Tree Press 2010) & Bury My Clothes (Haymarket Books, 2013) which won the... Read More →
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Mathilda De Dios

Associate Director, Free Write Arts & Literacy
Mathilda is a youth advocate, community worker, sister, daughter and mother. She co-created the Know Your Rights Curriculum with the Children and Family Justice Center at Northwestern University School of Law. She has a Bachelors of Arts in Political Science and Urban Studies from... Read More →
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Ryan Keesling

Free Write Arts & Literacy
Ryan is an artist and educator with Masters in Education from Northwestern University, and is the founder of Free Write. Since 2000, Ryan has been designing creative space with incarcerated and court involved youth in the Chicago. In addition to being a leader in the field of literacy... Read More →
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Elgin Smith

Free Write Arts & Literacy
Elgin is a visual artist, musician, and educator from St. Louis, Missouri, He discovered a passion for art in elementary school while drawing his favorite cartoon characters on his homework. In 2009, Elgin received a BFA in Graphic Illustration and Sculpture from the School of the... Read More →

Saturday June 17, 2017 11:00am - 12:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 113
  Strategy Session

11:00am EDT

Organizing for Cultural Equity
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Cultural organizations by and for communities of color are underfunded by foundations and widely misunderstood by the nonprofit industrial complex. This workshop details successful organizing efforts in New Orleans, Denver and San Antonio to hold funders and nonprofits accountable. How can we share what we have learned to make our trans-local efforts even stronger? Participants will leave with new relationships, organizing techniques and opportunities for collaboration.
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Sage Crump

National Performance Network
Sage Crump is a culture strategist who seeks to expand and deepen the work of artists, cultural workers and arts organization in social justice organizing. Based in New Orleans but working nationally, she believes in leveraging art, culture and creative practice to transform systemic... Read More →
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Jayeesha Dutta

Radical Arts and Healing Collective
Jayeesha Dutta is a tri-coastal artivist-scholar pursuing a doctorate at the University of New Orleans, focusing her work on using art, healing and relationship building for intersectional social justice movement building. She has been organizing with nearly 100 organizations across... Read More →
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Tanya Mote

Su Teatro
Tanya Mote has been with Su Teatro since 1997. She has served as a board member for the Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training (GIFT) and the National Performance Network and is a track coordinator for the Allied Media Conference (Resourcing and Sustaining Our Movements). She... Read More →
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Maria Rangel

María Cherry Galette Rangel is a dance artist, curator, cultural organizer, and development strategist. As Co-Founder/Director of Mangos With Chili (2006-16), she developed the work of over 150 QTPOC artists, launched 80+ productions via national tours and local seasons of programming... Read More →
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Graciela Sanchez

Esperanza Peace and Justice Center
Graciela Sánchez follows in the footsteps of her mother and abuelitas, strong neighborhood mestiza cultural workers. As director of the Esperanza Peace and Justice Center, Graciela works with community members to develop programs that culturally ground people of color, queer people... Read More →
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Ann-Meredith Wootton

Radical Arts and Healing Collective
Ann-Meredith Wootton - Standing in the footsteps of a long line of hard-headed rascal women who grounded me in traditions of resistance and community building through storycircles, arts-based trauma healing, & transformative justice. Co-founder of the Radical Arts & Healing Collective... Read More →

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

11:00am EDT

Read the Comments! Fostering Constructive Digital Dialogues
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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.
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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

11:00am EDT

Kreung Cooking Part 1
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Kreung experiments with traditional cooking as a way to conduct dialogue and revitalize culture in her family and the broader Cambodian diaspora. In this workshop, participants will experience cooking with the chef and her family. Participants will learn about the Cambodian historical context; the challenges and rewards involved in balancing tradition and innovation; and the opportunities that food provides as a means for building bridges, opening minds and telling your story. The food that will be prepared will be enjoyed at the Kreung community dinner in the evening.

Meet at the Campus Shuttle Stop located at Anthony Wayne at 10:45am, if you'd like to attend this field trip/cooking session.
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Chakriya Un

Kreung
same as other Kreung session

Saturday June 17, 2017 11:00am - 12:30pm EDT
Shuttle Stop: Anthony Wayne & Kirby
  Tour/Field Trip

11:00am EDT

The Dreamspace Project: Anti-Racist Pedagogy for Museum Education Part 1
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We will explore the ways in which the art museum perpetuates neocolonialism and white supremacy, and how that affects the visitor's experience, creating both visible and invisible barriers to learning and engagement. Using exercises from The Dreamspace Workbook, we will guide participants on a tour through the galleries of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Along with access to a digital copy of the workbook, participants will leave with tools to address issues of racism prevalent in museums.
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Alyssa Machida

Digital Learning Manager, The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
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Amireh Rezaei-Kamalabad

The Dreamspace Project
Amireh Rezaei-Kamalabad is a 17 year-old Aquarius exploring how to learn. At the start of the 2016-2017 school year, otherwise her junior year of high school, she became a pioneer in her own education by deciding to independently homeschool herself.

Saturday June 17, 2017 11:00am - 12:30pm EDT
Shuttle Stop: Anthony Wayne & Kirby
  Tour/Field Trip

12:30pm EDT

The Dreamspace Project: Anti-Racist Pedagogy for Museum Education Part 2
Feedback Survey
We will explore the ways in which the art museum perpetuates neocolonialism and white supremacy, and how that affects the visitor's experience, creating both visible and invisible barriers to learning and engagement. Using exercises from The Dreamspace Workbook, we will guide participants on a tour through the galleries of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Along with access to a digital copy of the workbook, participants will leave with tools to address issues of racism prevalent in museums.
Presenters
avatar for Alyssa Machida

Alyssa Machida

Digital Learning Manager, The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
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Amireh Rezaei-Kamalabad

The Dreamspace Project
Amireh Rezaei-Kamalabad is a 17 year-old Aquarius exploring how to learn. At the start of the 2016-2017 school year, otherwise her junior year of high school, she became a pioneer in her own education by deciding to independently homeschool herself.

Saturday June 17, 2017 12:30pm - 1:45pm EDT
Shuttle Stop: Anthony Wayne & Kirby
  Tour/Field Trip

12:30pm EDT

Kreung Cooking Part 2
Feedback Survey
Kreung experiments with traditional cooking as a way to conduct dialogue and revitalize culture in her family and the broader Cambodian diaspora. In this workshop, participants will experience cooking with the chef and her family. Participants will learn about the Cambodian historical context; the challenges and rewards involved in balancing tradition and innovation; and the opportunities that food provides as a means for building bridges, opening minds and telling your story. The food that will be prepared will be enjoyed at the Kreung community dinner in the evening
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CA
CM
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Chinchakriya Un

Chinchakriya (Char) Un is an artist/chef who creates space to share personal narratives through food. She explores memories both personal and shared, familial and societal, which highlight inherited trauma within the global Cambodian community. Char's food, her mother's food and... Read More →

Saturday June 17, 2017 12:30pm - 2:00pm EDT
Shuttle Stop: Anthony Wayne & Kirby
  Tour/Field Trip

12:45pm EDT

MAG-Net Media Justice Salon
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The Media Action Grassroots Network (MAG-Net), a project of the Center for Media Justice, is a movement-building network of nearly 100 social justice, media and arts organizations from across the country. Together we fight for communication rights, media/technology access, and fair representation.   MAG-Net Media Justice Salon's are interactive webinars that highlight top line media and communication policy issues that impact our communities and are a great opportunity for members and allies to connect with leaders in the field. We're excited to offer our very first LIVE Media Justice Salon at AMC's People's Pop-Up Media Shop. Make sure to follow along with us, using #MediaJustice
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Saturday June 17, 2017 12:45pm - 1:45pm EDT
Student Center: Hilberry D

12:45pm EDT

Latinx Healing from Colonialism
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Hispanic, Latinx, mestizo, Latina, Chicano – we’re a community with many names and a shared history of colonial violence. How do we heal? We will discuss the Spanish language as a tool of oppression and connection; the power and problematics of connecting to indigeneity as a source of self-discovery; and finding new tools for representation within our spectrum of mixed ancestry. Participants will leave with resources for healing in our lived experiences.
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Saturday June 17, 2017 12:45pm - 1:45pm EDT
State Hall: Room 118
  Hands-on Session

12:45pm EDT

Community Care Lunch Meet-Up
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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.
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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 →
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Saturday June 17, 2017 12:45pm - 1:45pm EDT
Student Center: Room 020
  Mealtime Meetup

12:45pm EDT

Go Big: Launching A Massive Student Movement
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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.
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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
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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.
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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

12:45pm EDT

Know Admin, Know Art: Resource Sharing Through Fiscal Sponsorship
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What if you could grow your creative practice without also needing to be your own accountant and fundraiser? Members of CultureWorks Greater Philadelphia, Fractured Atlas, and Allied Media Projects will explore how the resource-sharing model of fiscal sponsorship can meet the needs of artists and cultural workers. We will also discuss how we grow, serve and support our communities, what tools we each offer, and how we approach our work from an anti-oppression perspective. 
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Courtney Harge

Fractured Atlas
Courtney Harge is an arts administrator, director, and writer originally from Saginaw, MI who has been working in service of artists for the last fifteen years. She is the founder and Producing Artistic Director of Colloquy Collective, an emerging theater company in Brooklyn, NY... Read More →
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Toni Moceri

Toni Moceri manages AMP’s sponsored projects program, supporting over 70 sponsored projects working at the intersection of media and social justice. A lifelong metro Detroiter, Toni has nearly two decades working in the nonprofit and public service fields. Toni most recently worked... Read More →
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Jamaine Smith

As a mixed media artist, Jamaine Smith is quite comfortable with getting his hands dirty and combining traditionally distinct mediums to create meaningful work. With a background in the arts, higher education, non-profit administration and social work, Jamaine uses the same creative... Read More →
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Beth Warshaw

Beth has been working with arts, cultural and social impact organizations for 15 years, where her role has always centered around saying yes to people’s ideas, then working collaboratively to make them possible. A Philadelphia native, she recently returned from Seattle, where she was Co-Director at the Vera Project, the largest all-ages music and art space in the United States. Beth also produced the NPR music program The World Café and founded Girls Rock Philly, an organization that creates liberatory pathways for girls and women through music creation. Concurrently, she was also a writing instructor at Penn, a certified teacher, and a sound engineer. She is a sporadic mid-distance runner and a drummer in search of a surf band., CultureWorks Greater Philadelphia
Beth Warshaw has worked with arts, cultural & social impact organizations for 15 years. A Philadelphia native, she recently returned from Seattle, where she was Co-Director at The Vera Project. Before that, she was Production Director at WXPN, a noncommercial radio station. Beth also... Read More →

Saturday June 17, 2017 12:45pm - 1:45pm EDT
State Hall: Room 135
  Panel-Presentation

12:45pm EDT

Parenting for Liberation
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Because of the rampant violence against people of color, many parents of color parent their children from a place of fear and protection. This workshop will introduce "Parenting for Liberation," a hub where parents can find resources, tools, and strategies for how to raise their children to be free and whole in the face of multiple oppressions. Parent-activists will have the opportunity to strategize best practices to parent for liberation.
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Trina Greene Brown

Parenting For Liberation
Trina Greene Brown is a self-proclaimed badass Black-feminist Mama activist, raising two proud Black children. She launched Parenting for Liberation as a space for parents of Black children to envision a world where our children are free to be their most liberated selves. Previously... Read More →

Saturday June 17, 2017 12:45pm - 1:45pm EDT
Student Center: Hilberry E
  Strategy Session

2:00pm EDT

With Wings and Roots: Screening and Discussion
Feedback Survey
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
avatar for Christina Antonakos-Wallace

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

Electronic Health and Safety in the Borderlands
Feedback Survey
Let's protect our data and conversations from Trump and his draconian administration! While there are many concerned citizens’ guides to cybersecurity, activists in the borderlands (border states) need extra security precautions because their work puts them at higher risk. Participants will create a "threat model" that address the following questions: What data do you need to protect? Who do you need to protect it from? How do you protect against attacks? BYOD (bring your own device!).
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Juan Avila

OLE
Juan Avila was born in Mexico, immigrated to the U.S. at the age of 6 and has lived in New Mexico ever since. He is currently an undergrad at the University of New Mexico studying political science. He is also a tax payer and a volunteer educator at OLE.
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Miles Tokunow

OLÉ
Miles Tokunow is a community organizer and multimedia storyteller. He is passionate about building community power through media/tech literacy and storytelling. He currently works for immigrant and workers justice at OLÉ in Albuquerque, NM.

Saturday June 17, 2017 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 125
  Hands-on Session

2:00pm EDT

Fighting Islamophobia and Anti-blackness Through Youth Media
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Using the film Keep Ya Head Up, Global Action Project’s youth producers will engage participants in exploring root causes for oppressive school policies and practices and then brainstorm solutions that empowers educators and young people to fight back together. We will offer an intersectional perspective from immigrant youth of color on the ways in which they experience Islamophobia and Anti-blackness racism in and out of schools.
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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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Jesse Ehrensaft-Hawley

Global Action Project
Jesse Ehrensaft-Hawley Is the Executive Director of Global Action Project. He is an experienced social justice leader, with over two decades of experience working with community and cultural organizing groups. Jesse is a co-founder and former Executive Director of FIERCE, a community... Read More →
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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.

Saturday June 17, 2017 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 118
  Hands-on Session

2:00pm EDT

Finding Yourself in the Break: Lessons in Black Jazz Meditation
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Music and vibration have the power to guide us to self-knowing, healing, and the envisioning of new worlds. This session will engage these properties of sound through the Black radical jazz tradition. Using the techniques of Pauline Oliveros, participants will practice deep listening to pieces by artists like Alice Coltrane and Pharaoh Sanders. Participants will learn that deep sonic engagement with the world of Black sound unlocks new ways of listening and improvising for joy and survival. This session centers people of color.
Presenters
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Nicole Campbell

Nicole Campbell is a Black feminist artist and dj, currently based in Detroit by way of North Carolina. She is primarily concerned with sound as both a portal for entrancement and an entry point to past, present, and time-defying worlds. Some of her mixes and musings can be found in Mask Magazine and The Siren., n/a
Nicole Campbell is a Black feminist artist and dj, currently based in Detroit by way of North Carolina. She is primarily concerned with sound as both a portal for entrancement and an entry point to past, present, and time-defying worlds. Some of her mixes and musings can be found... Read More →

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

2:00pm EDT

Organizing for Healing Justice
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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.
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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
Feedback Survey
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.
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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 →
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Saturday June 17, 2017 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
McGregor: Room B/C
  Hands-on Session

2:00pm EDT

Remixing Archival Videos
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How can youth learn to harness the power of media to challenge conventional narratives about history, community, and public policy? We will learn about Chicago Slices, a project which trained youth in using freely accessible tools to produce videos and introduced media literacy concepts through the use of archival footage. We will share how the project began, what resources were developed for teachers and youth, and hear from youth participants.
Presenters
avatar for Sara Chapman

Sara Chapman

Executive Director, Media Burn
Sara Chapman is the executive director of the Media Burn Archive, a nonprofit which collects, restores and distributes documentary video created by artists, activists and community groups. She manages the preservation of the collection, oversees staff and interns, implements fundraising... Read More →
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Todd Diederich

Todd Diederich is a multimedia artist whose work has been featured in prominent media such as Vice Magazine and MTV. Todd has taught at Yollocalli for over 4 years.
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Gianna Lightfoot

Yollocalli Arts Reach
Gianna Lightfoot, 17 year old media maker and Yollocalli Youth Council member. Gianna has made murals, multimedia videos, zines and music since she was able to hold a crayon. Gianna was a part of the youth media makers cohort which helped develop resources on how to use archival media... Read More →
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Jaime Lopez

Yollocalli Arts Reach
Jaime Lopez, 18 year old aspiring film maker and photographer. Jaime was a part of the youth media makers cohort which helped develop resources on how to use archival media creatively in after school programs. Jaime help direct and edit a Pop Up Youth Radio tutorial video for Yollocalli... 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 →
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Paula Santos

National Museum of Mexican Art
Paula Santos is a multidisciplinary educator who has focused on creating and advocating for meaningful, equitable museum programming for family and adult audiences during her 10 years in the field. She’s currently Teacher & Student Programs Coordinator at the National Museum of... Read More →

Saturday June 17, 2017 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
Student Center: Room 384
  Hands-on Session

2:00pm EDT

Resourcing Your Work Through Residencies
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How can we utilize artist-in-residence (AIR) programs to fund our work? In this session we will explore different programs, as well as those that pair residencies with fellowship funding. We will learn how to research opportunities and evaluate program "fit" – matching short and long-term creative goals to the time, space and possible funding that an AIR can provide. Participants will leave with a research plan and proposal framework for submitting strong artist-in-residency applications.
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Mi'Jan Celie Tho-Biaz

Independent Documentarian
Mi'Jan Celie Tho-Biaz is Documentarian-In-Residence with the Institute of American Indian Arts, and founding organizer for the Black and Indigenous Convening for Social Movement Documentarians, to be hosted at Omega Institute. From 2015 to 2016, Mi'Jan Celie was a Visiting Scholar... Read More →

Saturday June 17, 2017 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 129
  Hands-on Session

2:00pm EDT

The Art of Coping
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Learn how The Art of Coping, a curriculum designed to address stigmas around anxiety, suicide and mental illness, develops resilience and coping skills in youth. We will explore how the elements of Hip Hop can be used as an outlet to elevate self-knowledge and manage everyday stress. Whether you leave with a tool to use in your personal life or learn how to incorporate emotional wellness and create safe spaces for the young people you serve, The Art of Coping is a resource for everybody.
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Shalina S. Ali

YF4J Community Manager & Co - Executive Director of TRUE Skool, TRUE Skool
Shalina S. Ali is the Director of Programs & Interim Co-Director of TRUE Skool. She is a part of the Central City Circle of Change, a social and emotional wellness consulting group and specializes in curriculum and staff development. As a mother, photographer and poet, her love for... Read More →

Saturday June 17, 2017 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 117
  Hands-on Session

2:00pm EDT

The Black Joy Project
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Black joy is an act of resistance that is necessary and integral in the journey to our collective freedom. This radical space will use portraits to blend the magic of Black life and social media to shine brightly through our joy. Participants will leave with a digital portrait featured in #TheBlackJoyProject series, as well as a growing creative community and space where we celebrate our full selves.
Presenters
avatar for Kleaver Cruz

Kleaver Cruz

Founder, The Black Joy Project
Kleaver Cruz is an Uptown native of NYC, a writer, dreamer and lover of travel. His work has been featured in La Galería, African Voices Magazine, The Journal of Negro Education as well as on Vibe.com and the Huffington Post among others. He is an alum of the VONA and Kenyon Review... Read More →
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Walter Cruz

BlackLivesMatter NYC / BCB
A native New Yorker, Walter has been exploring visual arts for as long as he can remember. He holds a B.A. in Architectural Studies with a minor in Studio Arts. Soon after graduation from college in 2011, Walter moved to Nanjing,China. Walter aspires to be a social innovator using... Read More →
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Kei Williams

Black Lives Matter NYC
Kei Williams is a queer transmasculine identified community organizer with #BlackLivesMatter, NYC Chapter. A self-taught visual artist & graphic designer, they assist small businesses and nonprofit organizations with communications, marketing, and social media. Kei centers their work... Read More →

Saturday June 17, 2017 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
Student Center: Room 285
  Hands-on Session

2:00pm EDT

Visual Resistance and Design for Our Movements
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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.
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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.
avatar for Molly Jane

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

Don't Stop! Get it, Get it: A Pan African History of Twerk
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Twerking is a Black dance tradition originating in West Africa with a rich history in the black belt region of the south. This tradition has been co-opted by white culture in ways that obscure its richness, technical virtuosity, and uses for healing. We will honor this rich cultural tradition and explore West African origins of twerk, various schools of black belt region twerking, and examples of twerk music throughout history while reflecting on its evolution within black cultures.
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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 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
Student Center: Room 020
  Panel-Presentation

2:00pm EDT

Living Your Soul's Purpose in Community
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In almost all indigenous cultures, spiritual technologies are first and foremost oriented towards helping individuals live their unique soul's purpose, in service to community. The collective supports individuals in discovering their unique gifts and finding fulfillment in service to the collective. In this presentation we will explore the concept of purpose in indigenous cultures and how we can begin to cultivate our ability to orient towards this energy in everyday life as we engage in community and co-create with each other.
Presenters
avatar for Langston Kahn

Langston Kahn

Occupy Your Heart
Langston Kahn is a black queer Brooklyn based shamanic practitioner specializing in healing trauma and radical transformation. He stands firmly at the crossroads, his practice informed by the somatic modality of Inner Relationship Focusing, initiations into traditions of the African... Read More →

Saturday June 17, 2017 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 116
  Panel-Presentation

2:00pm EDT

Soul of a Public Library
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In early 2017, five librarians were terminated from a toxic workplace and began to speak out after years of resistance to policies and misinformation we believed had a negative impact on our community. We will share our struggle to support each other, to transform working conditions for the remaining staff, and to organize locally for a new library governance structure. Join us to explore the timeline of our resistance and develop strategies for surviving and resisting a culture of fear at work.
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Kristy Cooper

Public Librarian turned library vigilante, The Library Defense Network
Kristy Cooper is an experienced public librarian. She has also worked in non-profits and has an MBA in Non-Profit Management. She has presented and published articles about starting adult literacy programs in public libraries. She also writes young adult novels.
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Katie DT

Public Librarian
Katie (she/her) is a public librarian interested in literacies, anti-racism and emergent strategy.
avatar for Andrea Perez

Andrea Perez

Public Librarian, MSW Student, Wayne State University School of Social Work
Andrea Perez was a co-coordinator of the Radical Librarianship tracks at AMC2015 and AMC2016. She is currently studying to become a social worker.
avatar for Alexis Tharp

Alexis Tharp

Librarian, Public Librarian
I'm a public librarian and occasional freelancer/volunteer doing stuff with data, communication and design. Ask me about my cat. She/her

Saturday June 17, 2017 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 114
  Panel-Presentation

2:00pm EDT

The Black Photographic Image: Future Perspectives
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This session is rooted in facilitating dialogue amongst Black photographers whose concerns are specific to Black futures. We will highlight critical connections between our practice and the need for diverse representations of blackness. We will share methods to build a visual archive that conserves Black collective narratives. Participants will leave with knowledge about utilizing these practices in their own communities.
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Zakkiyyah Najeebah

Chicago Artists Coalition and Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Zakkiyyah Najeebah is a Chicago based photographic artist, educator and documentarian. Zakkiyyah works primarily in photography to address and question the politics and aesthetic values of black representation,womanism, and collective narratives. Zakkiyyah's work has taken form beside... Read More →

Saturday June 17, 2017 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 128
  Panel-Presentation

2:00pm EDT

Decolonizing Indigenous Food and Seed
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Can you call yourselves sovereign if you can't feed yourselves? We will share and discuss the work around rebuilding Native community health through decolonizing food and seed. We will learn about methods utilized by Slow Food Turtle Island and the Upper Midwest Indigenous Seedkeepers Alliance to balance health with respecting tribal knowledge. Participants will be encouraged to share their experiences, and will leave with new ideas to decolonize their local food systems.
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Jamie Holding Eagle

Jamie is a seedkeeper and an enrolled member of the Mandan Hidatsa Arikara Nation in North Dakota. She has worked extensively with urban agriculture, seedkeeping, and ancestral foods as a means of rebuilding tribal health. She is completing a Master of Public Health, specializing... Read More →

Saturday June 17, 2017 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
Student Center: Room 137
  Strategy Session

2:00pm EDT

All Good Food Has A Story Part 1
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Do you want to take a private bus tour around Detroit exploring the people, places, and products that are transforming the city?  We will visit the markets, restaurants, juice bars, jam makers and lunch diners that are making Detroit a celebrated and controversial food city.  We promise a great day of touring and an incredible day of food while talking to local experts about what it takes to start a food business, to scaling the business to when does revitalization become gentrification. 
Presenters
avatar for Devita Davison

Devita Davison

Executive Director, FoodLab Detroit
Devita Davison is the Executive Director at FoodLab Detroit, a non-profit organization that works to provide entrepreneurs with the technical assistant, workshops, resources and the skills they need to start and grow a strong values-based food businesses.

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

2:00pm EDT

From Growing Our Economy to Growing Our Souls Tour Part 1
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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.
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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

2:00pm EDT

FireHouse Music Series Day Party
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The Firehouse Music Series, A collaborative project under the RockCityLookbook brand, is a Detroit-based, visual performance platform that highlights local talent throughout the city, state, and the nation. Our mission is to provide an extended platform and reach of audience for artists to expand their brand, bookings, new projects, collaborations, etc. 
In collaboration with the Allied Media Conference, we invite you to come and enjoy a special live session with the FireHouse Team and a few performances from the city's most talented artists, including our latest featured artist, Sienna Liggins. Sounds by DJ Stacye J. Refreshments will be served. Free. Saturday 2:00-5:30. The Commons.
https://www.baddieblair.com/firehouse-music-series/
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Saturday June 17, 2017 2:00pm - 5:30pm EDT
Cass Commons: Macalister Hall
  • Audience Everyone
  • Hashtag #firehousemusic

4:00pm EDT

Artivists' Music Video Lounge
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We will watch music videos by independent international "artivists," and discuss how their music reflects their communities while also exploring solutions to issues that are discussed in their lyrics. Participants will leave with a feel for new music and the inspiration to look for more works by artivists who create music within social movements.
Presenters
avatar for Paola Quiros

Paola Quiros

co-producer and community relations connector, Suena a Revolucion
Paola Quiros is a Colombian migrant living in the unceded Coast Salish territories in Canada. She is a trained journalist and feminist passionate about Latinamerican music and curious about the underrepresentation of Latin American womyn in the independent music industry. She is a... Read More →

Saturday June 17, 2017 4:00pm - 5:30pm EDT
Student Center: Room 285
  Film Screening-Performance

4:00pm EDT

Black x Queer x Poly: 195 Lewis
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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.
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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 →
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Saturday June 17, 2017 4:00pm - 5:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 117
  Film Screening-Performance

4:00pm EDT

Food Chains: Farmworker Rights in the 21st Century
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There's so much interest in food, but very little interest in the hands that pick that food. Come see the James Beard-award winning film Food Chains, which chronicles the battle of a small group of tomato pickers in Florida, the CIW, as they fight the multibillion-dollar companies that control the supply chain. Learn how the CIW's model can apply to numerous sectors of the food system. Participants will leave inspired and armed with new tools to approach local, regional and national labor issues.
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Sanjay Rawal

Food Chains
Sanjay Rawal has more than a decade’s experience in developing strategy for a diverse array of human rights and development projects in over forty nations. In addition to making documentary films, Sanjay is on the board of several nonprofits including the Voss Foundation. He has... Read More →

Saturday June 17, 2017 4:00pm - 5:30pm EDT
McGregor: Room F/G/H
  Film Screening-Performance

4:00pm EDT

Poetry and Publishing from Inside
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What is the role of the poetry workshop in prison activism and decarceration? This session presents a poetry reading from participants in poetry workshops in prisons in Pennsylvania, Indiana, and Michigan followed by a discussion with a previously incarcerated poet, facilitators of workshops inside, and a publisher of poems from inside strategizing how poetry workshops can serve incarcerated publics and double as space to destabilize carceral logic. We consider ways publishing can build coalition between people inside and outside and challenge public perceptions of the prison system.
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Jonathan Rajewski

Hamtramck Free School
Jonathan Rajewski is a painter who holds a degree in philosophy from Michigan State University. He runs Klinger Street Studios, is the editor of Soft Sculpture Press and is one of the founding members of the Hamtramck Free School. Since 2013 he has been facilitating a weekly creative... Read More →
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Rosie Stockton

Writer's Block Facilitator at the Women's Huron Valley Correctional Facility
Rosie Stockton is a poet based in Detroit, Michigan. They recently received their M.A. in Creative Writing at Eastern Michigan University and edited BathHouse Journal and Weekday Journal. Their writing has been published by Publication Studio, Monster House Press, BigBig Wednesday... Read More →
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James D. Thomas

James D. Thomas is a juvenile lifer sentenced to mandatory life without parole at 15 years old, released in late April after 30 years of incarceration. He writes "I am an aspiring writer and gifted speaker. My quest for freedom motivates my writing. Poetry allows me to escape my confinement... Read More →
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Richard Wehrenberg

MonsterHouse Press
Richard Wehrenberg, Jr. is a poet, book designer, & wolf hybrid from Cleveland, Ohio living in Bloomington, Indiana. They are the author of the pamphlet Reset North America To Default Settings, the chapbook Hands, & co-author, with Ross Gay, of River. They are the co-founder of... Read More →

Saturday June 17, 2017 4:00pm - 5:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 106
  Film Screening-Performance

4:00pm EDT

Create Your Own Social Justice Warrior
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Social justice warriors unite! This session explores the connections between organizing, sci-fi/fantasy, and liberation. The Social Justice Warrior Collective will present our children’s superhero comic book and outline our process for creating a superhero that transforms oppression into power. We will facilitate a hands-on workshop with participants to create their own social justice warriors. Together, these superheroes will destroy oppressive systems while building a more just world.
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Jasmine

Social Justice Warrior Collective
The Social Justice Warrior Collective consists of a storytelling and illustrating duo, Simon and Jasmine, whose aim is to create a collaborative comic book series of unconventional social justice superheroes. We have four core characters who each face intersecting forms of oppression... Read More →
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Simon

Social Justice Warrior Collective
The Social Justice Warrior Collective consists of a storytelling and illustrating duo, Simon and Jasmine, whose aim is to create a collaborative comic book series of unconventional social justice superheroes. We have four core characters who each face intersecting forms of oppression... Read More →

Saturday June 17, 2017 4:00pm - 5:30pm EDT
Student Center: Hilberry E
  Hands-on Session

4:00pm EDT

Electronically Woke
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What are the digital implications of the moment we are in, and how do we prepare for the future? Journalists, activists, organizers, and media-makers are invited to learn about how technology can be a tool for both liberation and oppression. Participants will leave with a deeper understanding of surveillance, as well as specific tools and resources for digital security self-defense.
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Roberta Rael

Roberta is the Founder and Director of Generation Justice, which is an intergenerational media making project that is co, Generation Justice
Roberta is a proud Nuevo Mexicana Chicana. She is the Founder and Director of Generation Justice, which is an intergenerational multimedia project that is committed to social change. Previously, Roberta directed the University of New Mexico’s Multi-Cultural Minority Recruitment... Read More →
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Saturday June 17, 2017 4:00pm - 5:30pm EDT
Student Center: Room 384
  Hands-on Session

4:00pm EDT

Getting Good Audio
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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.
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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

M.A.R.CH.ing Together: Childcare Collectives for Liberation!
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Curious about childcare collectives? Join M.A.R.CH. for a hands-on session where you'll learn how to create family-inclusive movement spaces by building your very own collective! We'll explore how to intentionally center the full participation of families in the struggle for liberation by providing childcare in activist spaces. Participants will gain the resources and tools needed to partner with organizations, recruit/train volunteers and engage in compassionate, safe and radical childcare.
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Shayla Lawrence

Memphis Advocates for Radical Childcare (MARCH)
Shayla has worked in maternal and child health for almost ten years & has a special interest in health disparities and social determinants of health, especially as they relate to infant mortality, breastfeeding, and maternity care. Shayla was a delegate to the Center for Health... Read More →
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Phuong Nguyen

M.A.R.CH. (Memphis Advocates for Radical Childcare)
Phuong is mama to Nathily, a 3 year-old who loves fixing things and the color green. Thily has transformed Phuong's world in beautiful & challenging ways, and sparked her learning of radical childcare and revolutionary mothering. The creation of M.A.R.CH. is one example of a Thily-inspired... Read More →
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Jayanni Webster

M.A.R.CH. (Memphis Advocates for Radical Childcare)
A native of the South, Jayanni finds her roots and makes home in Memphis, TN. She currently works as the West Tennessee organizer for United Campus Workers -- TN's higher education union. Her praxis pulls from the traditions of intersectionalism, Black feminism and popular education... Read More →

Saturday June 17, 2017 4:00pm - 5:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 113
  Hands-on Session

4:00pm EDT

NADA Ear Acupuncture and Reiki Circle
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Community-held healing is a strong and unique experience, one where we have the pleasure of being present during the care and exchange of energy for everyone in the room. Care will be offered in a safer, trauma-informed, consent-based space. NADA-trained ear acupuncture practitioners will place needles along the ear while Reiki practitioners follow with gentle placement of hands on the head and shoulders. This session allows 30+ people to be treated at once in a seated position in a circle.
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Rhiannon Chester

Healing by Choice!
Rhiannon Chester, M.A., is a Detroit native and social justice educator that has been involved in various grassroots movements for over 10 years. She holds space for individual and group processing through dialogue and activity and creates non-commercial visual art -- All centered... Read More →
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Violetta Donawa

Healing by Choice!
Violeta A. Donawa, M.A., is an applied sociologist with ten years of experience in various academic and community-based projects focused on education and intersecting identities at digital, local, and global levels. Her work as a healing justice practitioner includes Black Lives Matter... Read More →
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Adela Nieves

Homemade Healing
Adela Nieves is a new mama who needs more sleep. She is also a Traditional Health and Healing Arts Practitioner, who is deeply committed to her Taino (indigenous peoples of the Caribbean) roots. Adela supports people in their journeys to tell their own story and define health, healing... Read More →
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Sarah Sidelko

Healing Justice Track
While Detroit is home for Sarah, currently she's attending a year-long bodywork program in Albuquerque, NM. She is committed to co-creating accessible body awareness and movement spaces through an intersectional healing justice framework. She firmly practices anti-racist organizing... Read More →

Saturday June 17, 2017 4:00pm - 5:30pm EDT
McGregor: Room J
  Hands-on Session

4:00pm EDT

Rapid Accessibility Consultation
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When you built that website for your organization, or booked that space for your event, did you accidentally exclude people with a range of disabilities? In this session, professional accessibility consultants from the fields of digital media, design, and architecture will help you assess your programming, products, and online presence, and suggest more active design agendas from the perspective of disability concerns. You will leave with individualized feedback and a plan for change.
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Robert Adams

University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
Robert Adams is Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Michigan, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning; the Stamps School of Art and Design; and, Chair of the University of Michigan Initiative on Disability Studies.
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Stephanie Rosen

Accessibility Specialist, University of Michigan
Stephanie Rosen promotes the accessibility of scholarship, publishing, and teaching in her work as Accessibility Specialist at University of Michigan Library. Her background is in teaching and media organizing in the areas of queer, feminist, and disability thought. She has worked... Read More →

Saturday June 17, 2017 4:00pm - 5:30pm EDT
Student Center: Hilberry B
  Hands-on Session

4:00pm EDT

Supporting Loved Ones in Times of Crisis
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How do we give care to our people in times of emotional crisis? This workshop will help us support others to navigate altered states, depression, trauma, and more, while centering the needs and experiences of POC & LGBTQI+ people. Paying careful attention to the emotional impacts of oppression, we’ll pair resources and exercises from The Icarus Project with participants’ wisdom to explore healing strategies, emotional safety plans, and harm reduction tips for navigating the mental health mainstream.
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Maryse Mitchell-Brody

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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 →
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Natalie Yoon

The Icarus Project
Natalie Yoon is an organizer coming out of the student labor movement. While working as an organizer with different labor and student organizations, Natalie found herself struggling with severe anxiety and depression and recognized that this is a common struggle for movement leaders... Read More →

Saturday June 17, 2017 4:00pm - 5:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 131
  Hands-on Session

4:00pm EDT

The Connective Kite
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We will explore kites as a medium for critical conversation, collaborative healing and meditation. We will learn ways kites have been created and flown as peaceful resistance, and connect them to contemporary social and economic issues. We will construct and fly a modular tetrahedral kite, representing the intersectionality of contemporary struggle, the necessity of solidarity in uplifting issues and collaboration in forming solutions.
Presenters
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Arthur Bledsoe

Engineer and educator. Exited to learn about new ways and strategies for teaching and learning through art, hands on projects, and intentional conversations.
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Margo Dalal

Excutive Director, Detroit Community Wealth Fund
Margo is dedicated to creating a more equitable economy in Detroit and beyond. Raised in Virginia, Margo holds a Bachelors in Liberal Arts from Hampshire College, and an MSW from the University of Michigan. Margo has experience in supporting and growing businesses and non-profits... Read More →
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Katie Hearn

Detroit Kite Festival
Katie Hearn is a marketing and communications professional by trade, and a budding community activist, technologist, and fundraiser by trial-- living, kicking, and dreaming in Detroit.
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Zoe Minikes

Detroit Pop-Up Alliance
Zoe Minikes is a designer, community organizer, and pop-up food lady. She is a co-founder of the Detroit Pop-up Alliance, half of Peace Meal Kitchen, a co-organizer of the Detroit Kite Festival, and an occasional collaborator with The Work Department.
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Matt Tait

Detroit Kite Festival
Matt lives and works in Detroit, and is the owner of the product design company, Tait Design Co.

Saturday June 17, 2017 4:00pm - 5:30pm EDT
McGregor: Room B/C
  Hands-on Session

4:00pm EDT

Ableism, Accessibility, and Oral Histories
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Oral history, by its very format, is often inaccessible, ableist, and audist. What are the barriers to creating and sharing accessible media? This panel features producers from the Disability Visibility Project™ (DVP) who will discuss the project's inception, and its accessibility and inclusion practices. Participants will leave with a better understanding of why accessibility benefits everyone and the importance of engagement with disability communities in their work.
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Geraldine Ah-Sue

Independent Audio Producer
Geraldine Ah-Sue is an independent audio producer who uses creative media to inspire a more loving and just world. She is the producer for SFMOMA’s podcast, Raw Material, season 2: Manifest about art, community and social justice. Geraldine also produces stories for KPFA’s APEX... Read More →
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Yosmay del Mazo

Interim Regional Manager, SF StoryBooth, StoryCorps
Yosmay del Mazo is a writer, photographer, and audio producer who uses art and storytelling as tools for community resilience. He is a facilitator at StoryCorps in San Francisco and a former staff member of VONA Voices workshops for writers of color. His work can be read in the anthology... Read More →
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Alice Wong

Founder and Project Coordinator Disability Visibility Project™
Alice Wong is a sociologist, research consultant, and disability activist based in San Francisco. She is the Founder of the Disability Visibility Project (DVP), a community partnership with StoryCorps and an online community dedicated to creating, amplifying, and sharing disability... Read More →

Saturday June 17, 2017 4:00pm - 5:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 127
  Panel-Presentation

4:00pm EDT

brASS: Brown RadicalAss Burlesque
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This workshop is an intro to brASS Burlesque's work – we welcome participants into a space of exploring embodied resistance through the art form of burlesque. brASS Burlesque, through celebrations of our politicized bodies, makes politics sexy and empowers audiences to value their own stories and use their creativity towards collective action. We also explore what it means to bring performance to the streets and how to do it in a way that energizes us all. We encourage a disruption of the passive consumption of art and using performance to re-imagine our society.
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Michi Osato

brASS: Brown RadicalAss Burlesque
Michi Ilona Osato aka sister selva’s germinated & sprouted in the concrete of NYC. Co-founder of brASS Burlesque, 2015 Queen of the Texas Burlesque Festival & Audience Choice Award winner. She’s spread her seedlings from Joe's Pub, to Sesame Street, to impassioned dance floors... Read More →
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Una Aya Osato

brASS: Brown RadicalAss Burlesque
Una Aya Osato aka exHOTic other is queer femme Japanese Jew. She’s a co-founding member of brASS: Brown RadicalAss Burlesque. Performer, writer & educator from the far far east... of NYC. Una’s also an award-winning actor & playwright who tours her work nationally & internationally... Read More →

Saturday June 17, 2017 4:00pm - 5:30pm EDT
Student Center: Room 020
  Panel-Presentation

4:00pm EDT

Talk the Talk: AirGo and Dialogue as Resistance
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How can we embody radical resistance in the ways we communicate? AirGo is a radio show and podcast showcasing strong young voices reshaping culture to be more equitable and creative. This session explores how, as media makers exploring the craft and theory of conversation, we can use non-hierarchical dialogue as a space to help build creative communities and support social movements.
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Daniel Kisslinger

AirGo Cohost & Co-Exec. Producer
AirGo co-host & Co-Executive Producer Daniel Kisslinger is a Chicago-based producer, working in the worlds of radio, live events, digital interactive platforms, and community building. He does production across the city, including: Louder Than a Bomb, the world’s largest youth poetry... Read More →
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Damon Williams

AirGo Cohost & Co-Exec. Producer
Organizer, writer, host, and artist from the south side of Chicago. He is the cofounder of the #LetUsBreathe Collective, a grassroots alliance that operates the Breathing Room, a Black-led liberation space for arts, organizing, and healing on Chicago's South Side.Damon Williams is... Read More →

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

4:00pm EDT

Diversity in Youth Literature
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We all know how important it is for kids and teens to see reflections of themselves in literature, especially written by members of their communities. At this meet-up, we will discuss recent stand-out books for kids and teens, that are diverse in race, gender identity, learning and physical abilities. We’ll share tips for curating diverse and inclusive library collections and look at publishing practices and underrepresented authors. Come with your best ideas and favorite recent titles!
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Katy Kramp

Plymouth District Library
Katy Kramp traveled with Up with People after college, worked at the University of Michigan International Center, then got here MSI there. She has been a librarian at the Plymouth District Library since 2002 and serves on the board of the Plymouth-Canton Community Literacy Council... Read More →
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Nakenya Lewis- Yarbrough

Youth Librarian, Belleville Area District Library
Nakenya Lewis-Yarbrough is a youth librarian at Belleville Area District Library and has over 10 years of experience as an educator and school administrator. She has a passion to foster awareness of diverse books written by underrepresented authors which allows youth to see reflections... Read More →

Saturday June 17, 2017 4:00pm - 5:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 114
  Strategy Session

4:00pm EDT

All Good Food Has A Story Part 2
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Do you want to take a private bus tour around Detroit exploring the people, places, and products that are transforming the city?  We will visit the markets, restaurants, juice bars, jam makers and lunch diners that are making Detroit a celebrated and controversial food city.  We promise a great day of touring and an incredible day of food while talking to local experts about what it takes to start a food business, to scaling the business to when does revitalization become gentrification. 
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Devita Davison

Executive Director, FoodLab Detroit
Devita Davison is the Executive Director at FoodLab Detroit, a non-profit organization that works to provide entrepreneurs with the technical assistant, workshops, resources and the skills they need to start and grow a strong values-based food businesses.

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

4:00pm EDT

From Growing Our Economy to Growing Our Souls Tour Part 2
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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.
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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 4:00pm - 5:30pm EDT
Shuttle Stop: Anthony Wayne & Kirby
  Tour/Field Trip

6:00pm EDT

Self Care for Birthworkers
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When was the last time birth workers came together to affirm, relate and love on each other? The nature of birthwork requires us to give our energy outward but there is value in giving that same love to ourselves and each other. Through dialogue and creative expression, we will provide community birthworkers a space of personal reflection and celebration. Participants will discuss the importance of birthworker solidarity, especially as it pertains to our specific community needs.
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Angela Abiodun

Iyengar Yoga Detroit Collective
Angela Abiodun is creating her lived experience using knowledge gained through her yoga practice, doula experiences and interactions with nature. In her spare time writes, colors and dances under the moon.
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Olivia Harper

Birth Doula and Certified Lactation Counselor
Olivia Harper was born and raised in Detroit, MI. During her undergraduate studies, she came to believe that using a community-based approach to doula work can transform communities. In her work as a doula a certified lactation counselor, Olivia uses creative expression to interact... Read More →
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Ebere Oparaeke

The Neutral Zone
Ebere Oparaeke is a recent graduate from the University of Michigan-AA with a BS in Women’s Studies. During her time at the university,she was trained as a birth doula and conducted research for her honor’s thesis on black women and their conceptualization and enactment of agency... Read More →

Saturday June 17, 2017 6:00pm - 8:00pm EDT
McGregor: Room J
  Mealtime Meetup

6:00pm EDT

Toward Education Justice
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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.
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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)
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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

6:00pm EDT

Kreung Cambodia Community Dinner
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This year, the AMC is collaborating with Kreung Cambodia to create a community dinner and fundraiser. The event will include a full dinner by Chinchakriya Un, founder of Kreung. Kreung’s goals are two-fold: to raise money for a tractor for Un's family in Cambodia, and also to use the preparation of traditional foods to connect and address intergenerational trauma caused by the Khmer Rouge.

This year's community dinner will be a culmination of educational food prep workshops carried out by Kreung and AMC attendees. Organizers of the AMC Food Matters Track will also be presenting on the "True Cost of Food," using visual aids to reframe how we value prepared food and the work that goes into producing it, from farmer to server and everything in between.

Tickets are offered on a sliding scale ranging from $15-$50. Purchase tickets here.
Saturday June 17, 2017 6:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
New Center Park 2998 W Grand Blvd, Detroit, MI 48202

7:30pm EDT

The Gathering: An AMC Youth Party!
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Join The Power of Youth and the Youth Activism in Hip Hop track coordinators as they co-host a party for AMCers 25 and under! Join us as we network, share media, design and dance together. Motor City Street Dance Academy from Detroit will be hosting a Bboy/Bgirl session. Members of the Youth Fighting For Justice Mixtape project will be releasing their mixtape created in the Midwest. This will also be an opportunity to tour The Alley Project and Grace In Action Detroit. Youth from all over are welcome to this party!
Saturday June 17, 2017 7:30pm - 11:00pm EDT
Grace in Action 1725 Lawndale St, Detroit, MI 48209
  AMC @ Night

8:00pm EDT

DANCE DANCE (R)EVOLUTION
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Join us for our signature music event of the Allied Media Conference! Two stages: inside the museum and outside in Mike Kelley's Mobile Homestead. Performances and sets by: Tunde Olaniran, Rimarkable, Danni Cassette, Latasha Alcindor, Mic Write, Whodat, Ladymonix, Rick Wilhite. Hosted by Mother Cyborg. Visuals by l05. Entry is free for registered AMC participants.
Saturday June 17, 2017 8:00pm - Sunday June 18, 2017 2:00am EDT
MOCAD 4454 Woodward Ave, Detroit, MI 48201
  AMC @ Night

8:00pm EDT

Gender Blender
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Presented by FtM Detroit, Gender Blender brings transmasculine identified people in the metro Detroit area together. This is a space where everyone, regardless of their gender identity or sexual orientation, can feel safe, have fun, and build new connections. The Gender Blender is one of the biggest regular gatherings of trans and queer people and their allies in the metro Detroit area, and each one is bigger and better than the last. What is quickly becoming one of the hottest parties in Detroit, the Gender Blender is the perfect way to meet new people, listen to great music brought to you by DJ UnDcided, and win awesome prizes in our raffle! No cover.
Saturday June 17, 2017 8:00pm - Sunday June 18, 2017 2:00am EDT
Circa 1890 Saloon 5474 Cass Ave, Detroit, MI 48202
  AMC @ Night
 
Sunday, June 18
 

10:00am EDT

Live Audio Drama: Giving Voice to Our Ancestors
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How can we use our resources to give our ancestors a voice? We will listen to an audio screening of W.E.B. Dubois' "The Comet," a short story that explores race in a post apocalyptic climate. This will be followed by a discussion about utilizing what we already have to cast, produce, sound design, and live broadcast a story in the style of audio drama. We will discuss how the story was re-created with the resources and tools at our disposal in 2017.
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Sunday June 18, 2017 10:00am - 11:30am EDT
Student Center: Hilberry D
  Film Screening-Performance

10:00am EDT

Creative & free digital communication strategies
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Often movement building is done without resources for communications. We will explore free methods for creating a digital media strategy. We will look at examples from the Wilmington Wire, a community-run media hub that reaches over 100K people a month without funding. We will demonstrate how to maximize exposure on social media, how to use free design tools for posters and infographics, and how to reframe complex messages to reach your target audience.
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Lauren Valdez

Wilmington Wire
Coming from an environmentally burdened Latinx community in LA, Lauren's work focuses on shaping the built environment to improve health outcomes in low-income, communities of color. Lauren is the Co-director of the Wilmington Wire, a news media platform that builds civic engagement... Read More →

Sunday June 18, 2017 10:00am - 11:30am EDT
State Hall: Room 127
  Hands-on Session

10:00am EDT

Exploring Data as a Tool in Public Libraries
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We will share how the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh has explored data as a tool for engaged citizens. Attendees will participate in hands-on activities and group discussion surrounding data-centric concepts like personal privacy, storytelling, and visualization. This session will introduce tangible approaches to civic information and practical applications of data, all through the lens of public library services!
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Laura Calloway

Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Currently, she is a policy analysis graduate student and Public Policy and International Affairs (PPIA) Fellow at Heinz College, a Carnegie Mellon Social Innovation Fellow, and a Civic Information Designer at Carnegie Library. Right now, she is designing civic information help desk... Read More →
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Julia Petrich

Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Julia is a Master of Design candidate studying Design for Interactions at Carnegie Mellon University. Currently, she is working at the public library exploring ways civic data might be baked in to existing library services. While her interests are varied and diverse, she is most interested... Read More →
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Eleanor Tutt

Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Eleanor Tutt is the open data and knowledge manager at Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. By opening library data, connecting library measures to community impacts, and supporting residents as they build their skills and confidence using data in the civic realm, she hopes to contribute... Read More →
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Tess Wilson

Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Tess Wilson is part of the Civic Information Services team at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, and occasionally assists teens during STEAM programming at the Library Labs. She is a collector of anything from big dictionaries to small rocks, and her latest acquisition was an MFA... Read More →

Sunday June 18, 2017 10:00am - 11:30am EDT
State Hall: Room 111
  Hands-on Session

10:00am EDT

Fly Freedom Makers
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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.
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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

Game Curious: Videogame Literacy For Underserved Communities
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We will explore how games can be an expression of creativity, using Game Curious as a template for localized accessibility. We will play games previously made in the program, then use paper prototyping and free resources to learn how to make games that disseminate political knowledge and lived experiences. Participants will leave with a nuanced view of what games can do, how to make their own games and instruct others too.
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Al Donato

Hand Eye Society
Al Donato is a Toronto-based journalist and community organizer. They can be found on Twitter @Gollydrat or at aldona.to They work with the Hand Eye Society, a non-profit that promotes games as a creative and accessible form of expression. Game Curious was founded by executive director... Read More →
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Sagan Yee

Executive Director, Hand Eye Society
Sagan Yee is a Toronto-based 2D animator and occasional indie game perpetrator. Her work experience includes TV animation and storyboarding, video game concept art and design, illustration, motion graphics and even machinima. She has participated in numerous panel discussions on animation... Read More →

Sunday June 18, 2017 10:00am - 11:30am EDT
State Hall: Room 114
  Hands-on Session
  • Audience Everyone
  • Hashtag #GameCurious

10:00am EDT

Insurgent Logistics: Taking Back Supply Chains
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Logistics work to isolate local consumers from global economic violence. Under permanent threat from offshoring and automation, workers often lack the leverage to challenge wage stagnation, unsustainable production practices and labor abuses. But could we imagine a logistics that reverses this dynamic to build social power in our communities? By tracing the evolution of Just In Time logistics from Project Cybersyn, our panel will highlight practical supply chain mapping and policy tools capable of driving positive organizational change.
Presenters
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Josh Akers

Assistant Professor, UM-Dearborn
I am interested in mapping power and finding new avenues for intervention and resistance from data and tools to direct action. Short term goals are to alleviate suffering and afflict the comfortable. I like projects that do either but am particularly fond of those that do both at... Read More →
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Jessica Krcmarik

Tech Stars
an illustrator, designer, and letterer and Designer in Residence at Tech Stars.
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Elizeya Quate

Bid Ops
Edmund Zagorin is founder of Bid Ops, an acquisitions platform that drives savings on total cost of ownership. He is a LEED AG and co-author of Sustainable Procurement Playbook for Cities.

Sunday June 18, 2017 10:00am - 11:30am EDT
Student Center: Room 285
  Hands-on Session

10:00am EDT

Power, Belief, and the (word) Whore
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How is the general subjugation of women revealed and distilled in the cadences, refrains and relations at the criminal fringes of society? In this session, we will explore some theoretical, poetic and revolutionary texts and sound which convene around the sexualization of labor and the mouths of "bad" women. Through hard readings, free-writing, and elective affinity, we will conduct some live, poetic research on the unbelievably true languages of these "lips which are always kissing" (Irigaray). Participants will leave empowered as deep-readers, intuitive scholars, and/or nasty women.
Presenters
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Mel Elberg

The Poetry Project, NYC
Mel Elberg believes in "the existence an value of many different kinds of thinking and interaction, in a world in which how close you can appear to a certain one of them determines whether your seen as a real person, or an adult, or an intelligent person, and in a world in which these... Read More →

Sunday June 18, 2017 10:00am - 11:30am EDT
State Hall: Room 118
  Hands-on Session

10:00am EDT

Queer Black Sunday School Choir Practice
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In this workshop we will engage the possibility of Black Feminist collective singing using Black Feminist texts as source material and sacred text. We will engage gospel and congregational songs and think critically about the meaning we make when we sing the words. We are reclaiming the resilience tools of our ancestors and elders - in this case song - and using them to meet the needs we have now.
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Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Alexis Pauline Gumbs is the author of M Archive: After the End of the World, Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity, Mobile Homecoming
Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a queer black troublemaker and a black feminist love evangelist based in Durham, NC.
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Elijah Jordan Michael

Lost Boys Records
Elijah Jordan Michael is an emerging hip hop producer, one of the founders of Lost Boys Records and the grandchild of generations of musicians in the Black Church Tradition. Elijah lives and works in Lexington, South Carolina.
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Julia Wallace

Sangodare Akinwale (Julia Roxanne Wallace) is the co-founder of Black Feminist Film School and the writer and director of the ceremonial film "When We Free." Inventor of the form "ritual screening," Sangodare creates interactive digital and analog sonic (vibrational) and visual (aural) media in order to activate their purpose as a safe space for transformation. She is currently an artist in residence at University of Minnesota., Black Feminist Film School
Julia Roxanne Wallace (Sangodare) is a safe space for transformation and the queer result of generations of Black baptist preachers and singers in the Carolinas. Julia is the co-founder of the Mobile Homecoming project, Black Feminist Film School and the writer and director of the... Read More →

Sunday June 18, 2017 10:00am - 11:30am EDT
Student Center: Room 025
  Hands-on Session

10:00am EDT

Sampling and Sound Sourcing
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In this session we will engage with sound samples culled from mainstream media, reinterpreting them to critically explore political themes. We will then use this material to create music arranged by the group with sequencers and iPad apps, using sound collage and beatmaking methods. Participants will walk away with a deeper working knowledge of sound as a political medium.
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Michael Feld

Music Producer, PlaySpace Studios
Michael Feld is a Detroit-based producer and technologist who started creating at a young age, making films and drumming for bands, moving into music production, sound engineering and sound art. Through a Masters at NYU in education, he has fused pedagogy with these many different... Read More →

Sunday June 18, 2017 10:00am - 11:30am EDT
McGregor: Room L/M
  Hands-on Session

10:00am EDT

Transforming the Family Album
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How can narratives within the family album change the way we see others and ourselves? This session will explore various ways artists and activists can reshape the family album to empower communities for a 21st Century. Participants will investigate and share stories rooted within their own family photographic collections and archives. Participants will create and develop community photo sharing and digitizing projects tailored to their own work and organizations.
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Thomas Allen Harris

Thomas Allen Harris is a filmmaker and artist whose work across film, video, photography, and performance illuminates the human condition and the search for identity, family, and spirituality. His deeply personal films have received critical acclaim at international film festivals such as Sundance, Berlin, Toronto, FESPACO, Outfest, Flaherty, and Cape Town. His most recent feature film, Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People (2014), which looks at the ways photographs have served as tools of representation and self-representation through history, won over 7 international awards including the 2015 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Documentary Film. His latest short film, About Face: The Evolution of a Black Producer (2017) had its premiere on World AIDS Day at the Whitney Museum of American Art and over 100 institutions worldwide as part of Visual AIDS’ 28th annual Day With(out) Art. In 2009, Harris founded Digital Diaspora Family Reunion (DDFR), a socially engaged transmedia, Family Pictures USA
Thomas Allen Harris is an award-winning filmmaker, transmedia artist, curator & educator whose work illuminates the human condition and the search for identity, family & spirituality. In “Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela”, Harris examines the life of his late stepfather, part... Read More →
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Don Perry

Digital Diaspora Family Reunion, LLC
Don Perry has been a Producer & Writer on award-winning creative projects with filmmaker Thomas Allen Harris for over ten years. He is an experienced financial and management consultant with a wide ranging background in commercial finance and corporate restructuring. He has been with... Read More →

Sunday June 18, 2017 10:00am - 11:30am EDT
State Hall: Room 117
  Hands-on Session

10:00am EDT

Translation, Migration and Creative Resistance
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How can translation serve as a creative border crossing in this age of walls? We will connect translation (movement of texts) to immigration (movement of bodies) and explore using poetry to move language and ideas across borders. We will look at activist/immigrant projects that use translation as an act of critical resistance and try out simple translation exercises of our own. Participants will leave with skills to begin to engage in acts of critical translation.
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Madhu Kaza

No. 1 Gold/ Bard College
Born in Andhra Pradesh, India, Madhu Kaza is a writer, translator, educator and artist based in New York City. She has translated contemporary revolutionary and feminist Telugu writers included Vimala and Volga. She is the editor of Kitchen Table Translation: Migration, Diaspora... Read More →

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

10:00am EDT

Tools to Destigmatize Everyday Mental Health
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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
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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.
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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

Power to the Pop-Up
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Can pop-up restaurants exist as a sustainable, integral, and vibrant part of a city’s food system? The Detroit Pop-up Alliance says hell yes. DPA empowers Detroit’s pop-up food entrepreneurs to succeed by cultivating community, providing access to individual consulting, and creating opportunities for professional development at no cost to members. This panel brings together DPA members – both born Detroiters and global voices – to share their stories and explore the humble pop-up restaurant as a catalyst for positive forces.
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avatar for Harriette Brown

Harriette Brown

Sisters on a Roll
Sisters on a Roll is a ministry of willing hearts and helping hands giving you the Flavor Of Love. Seeing food as a universal gift to be shared we give you Food prepared from the heart with the soul in mind... Bringing the FLAVOR of Love one bite at a time.
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Nick George

Detroit Pop-up Alliance
Nick George is a co-founder of the Detroit Pop-up Alliance and owner of Dr. Sushi. He got his food world start working prep at Japanese market and sushi bar Noble Fish. After years of making food for friends and family on weekends he started getting gigs catering parties as a private... Read More →
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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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Dorothy Hernandez

Dorothy Hernandez is a Detroit-based freelance journalist who has contributed to NPR’s The Salt, Civil Eats, and Roads a, Freelance Journalist
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Zoe Minikes

Detroit Pop-Up Alliance
Zoe Minikes is a designer, community organizer, and pop-up food lady. She is a co-founder of the Detroit Pop-up Alliance, half of Peace Meal Kitchen, a co-organizer of the Detroit Kite Festival, and an occasional collaborator with The Work Department.
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Shaquana Robertson-Suggs

Potluck Kitchen
Serving nostalgic soul-food favs, focusing on taste, quality & freshness. Connecting with unique brands & popping up at dope venue spaces around the city.
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Emily Staugaitis

Bandhu Gardens
Bandhu Gardens recognizes existing gardening and culinary talents and efforts of Bangladeshi women in Detroit and helps amplify and expand their opportunities. We work with gardeners and restaurants to supply traditional South Asian produce, now grown locally, to the broader food... Read More →

Sunday June 18, 2017 10:00am - 11:30am EDT
State Hall: Room 106
  Panel-Presentation

10:00am EDT

Rapid Response Media
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In this panel, we will share our work on “Hate Free Zones” with Desis Rising Up and Moving (DRUM). We will facilitate dialogue with other groups that use digital media to facilitate relationship building and empower communities most impacted by injustice in the era of Trump.
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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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Karina Hurtado

Karina is a media maker and educator from Queens, New York. Her work in media production focuses on advancing the narratives of organized communities and creating art that facilitates the birth of our rebel world. As an educator, she has worked primarily to support the growth of youth organizers and young media activists. She began her work as a media producer with Global Action Project fifteen years ago as a youth producer and returned to GAP as the Coordinator for CMIA in 2016. She's equal parts air and earth signs, a member of the Justice Committee, and deals with her FOMO by creating graphics as @Karilamari, Global Action Project
Karina Hurtado-Ocampo is a media educator, producer, and Community Media in Action Coordinator at the Global Action Project.
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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.

Sunday June 18, 2017 10:00am - 11:30am EDT
State Hall: Room 135
  Panel-Presentation

10:00am EDT

The Evolution of 'The Talk'
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What exactly is “the talk”? At what age do parents discuss this uncomfortable but imperative topic? In a time where sex education in public schools is almost eradicated, how are young people obtaining these vital tools? Where do younger children fit into the conversation of sex and who decides what sex is? Join in the conversation to understand the power of comprehensive sex education for children and youth as a tool of power and a mechanism to combat child sexual abuse.
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Ignacio Rivera

The HEAL Project
Ignacio Rivera is a Queer, Trans, Two-Spirit, Black Boricua Taíno who prefers the gender-neutral pronoun “they.” Ignacio is an activist, writer, educator, filmmaker, performance artist and mother. Ignacio’s work has manifested itself through skits, one-person shows, poetry... Read More →

Sunday June 18, 2017 10:00am - 11:30am EDT
State Hall: Room 115
  Strategy Session

10:00am EDT

Twitter Responses to Police Violence
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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.
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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

We’re Our Best Resource
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Imagine a place where people share healing tools and resources, and politicize together. The Healing Justice Library (HJL) invites you to join us as we move from a physical to digital platform based in collective liberation. We’ll share our successes and failures, and pose questions like: “What could a HJL branch look like in your community?” “How do we create a digital archive?” and “How do we bring healing and disability justice into our communities, activism, and lives?”
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Rae Parnell

Healing Justice Library Central
Rae is an intergalactic space cadet with a dedication to education and knowledge. When not collecting and distributing resources for the Healing Justice Library Central, they can be found zine making, curating community events, and writing new workshops. They believe that access to... Read More →
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Sylvie Rosenkalt

Healing Justice Library Central
Sylvie is a crafty fibrofemme who loves all things learning- especially political education! She loves hanging out with her pup Chester, quilting and spending as much time outdoors as possible. Sylvie dreams of being a radical childrens’ librarian and creating a disability justice... Read More →

Sunday June 18, 2017 10:00am - 11:30am EDT
McGregor: Room J
  Strategy Session

10:00am EDT

Collecting Resistance: Histories of Social Justice in Detroit
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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.
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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 →
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Sunday June 18, 2017 10:00am - 2:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 137
  Hands-on Session

11:45am EDT

Community Care Lunch Meet-Up
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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.
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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 →
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Sunday June 18, 2017 11:45am - 12:45pm EDT
Student Center: Room 020
  Mealtime Meetup

11:45am EDT

Girl, I Got You
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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!
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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

11:45am EDT

The Building of Black Detroit Tour Part 1
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Detroit's African-American community was built on a revolutionary fight for freedom. In this tour we will learn about Detroit's history around the issue of race, and how Black activists, organizations and businesses fought faith, freedom and financial self-determination to control their own reality and environment.
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Jamon Jordan

BIO: Jamon Jordan is an educator, writer & historian. Also known as Baba Jamon, he has been a teacher of African & African American history for 20 years and a researcher of Black history for decades . He taught at the African centered Nsoroma Institute in Detroit for 10 years. He now runs Black Scroll Network History & Tours, where he leads tours and presentations dealing with African & African American history in the Detroit area, and throughout Michigan and the United States. He has given over 100 tours and presentations for Detroit Public Schools, Walled Lake Public Schools, and numerous charter schools, as well as university class groups from Wayne State, Michigan State, Georgetown, New York University & the University of Michigan. He has given hundreds of lectures and presentations for schools, churches, and organizations, including the Detroit Historical Society, the Historical Society of Michigan, the Jewish Historical Society, and the Underground Railroad National Conference. He has presented, Black Scroll Network History & Tours

Sunday June 18, 2017 11:45am - 12:45pm EDT
Shuttle Stop: Anthony Wayne & Kirby
  Tour/Field Trip

1:00pm EDT

Getting Schooled: Detroit Public Schools on Stage
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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)
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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

360 Degrees of Dance
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How do you create performances offsite or in unorthodox locations? Participants will learn methods for creating three dimensional performance. This workshop is for dancers, movers, artists, or individuals who would like to use movement in their works or learn different techniques. We will begin with a brief presentation, warm-up, individual/partner work and creating a movement phrase. Later, we will present the phrase in a new location. Modifications can be made due to injuries or disabilities.
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Erika 'RED' Stowall

Big Red Danke Productions
Erika ‘Red’ Stowall is a choreographer and educator residing in Detroit, MI. Red attended University of Michigan, receiving a BFA in Dance and Choreography.Currently, Red is teaching at Detroit Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2015 Red received the Applebaum Emerging Artist Award... Read More →

Sunday June 18, 2017 1:00pm - 2:30pm EDT
Student Center: Room 020
  Hands-on Session

1:00pm EDT

Build it Strong: Collective Governance for Collective Liberation
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As infrastructure erodes, we are tasked with building something new! Worker-owned coops are a great model for innovative collaboration that centers shared governance and democracy in motion. Join co-op thinkers to learn about the nuts and bolts of how to democratically govern a group. Bring questions, explore challenges and possibilities, and leave with best practices and tools for democratic practices guided by our shared commitment to topple systems of oppression and repression.
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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 →
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Jenna Peters-Golden

AORTA
Jenna is a founding member of AORTA, an organizer, sometimes visual artist, and a parent to an amazing small kid. Passionate about transformative justice, community solutions to preventing violence, just climate transition, and solidarity economics, Jenna finds home in collective... Read More →

Sunday June 18, 2017 1:00pm - 2:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 135
  Hands-on Session

1:00pm EDT

Building Tech to Hold Police Accountable
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We can build our own tech to empower community-based solutions! Help develop a tool that would read police badges and provide data on police in real time and add your own reviews (think: “Yelp” for cops). We will host a community hack-a-thon to dive into the concept, improve the design together, and take next steps. Participants will leave with a deeper understanding of how police try to limit accountability and how innovative tech can change the power dynamic between the public and the police.
Presenters
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Raquel De Anda

http://www.raqueldeanda.org
RAQUEL DE ANDA is an independent curator and cultural producer who began her career as Associate Curator at Galería de la Raza, a contemporary Latino arts organization in San Francisco, CA (2003-2010) and has continued to support the production of socially engaged artwork in both... Read More →
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Gan Golan

http://gangolan.com
GAN GOLAN is an artist, activist, and NY Times bestselling author. His work combines grassroots community organizing with high-profile, media-genic public spectacles that shift popular narratives and mobilize communities. He recieved an "Artist as Activist" Fellowship from the Robert... Read More →
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Ronald Morrison

http://www.designculturelab.com/ron-m/
RON MORRISON is a designer, researcher, and social practitioner who works to create strategies using art and design that help people understand how urban systems work and how to work within them. With a strong background in community development and social advocacy, he believes that... Read More →
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Ayodomola Okunseinde

http://www.ayo.io
AYODAMOLA TANIMOWO OKUSEINDE is an artist and interactive designer living and working in New York.earned his B.A at the State University of New Jersey. His works range from painting and speculative design to physically interactive works, wearable technology and explorations of Afrofuturism... Read More →

Sunday June 18, 2017 1:00pm - 2:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 118
  Hands-on Session

1:00pm EDT

Embodied Twitter
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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

Healing with Tai Chi
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Tai Chi Ch'uan is a Chinese martial art. The main principle is to learn to relax through understanding our own bodies. During the session, we will practice tai chi. I will share some simple movements that you can do at home.
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Sunday June 18, 2017 1:00pm - 2:30pm EDT
McGregor: Room J
  Hands-on Session

1:00pm EDT

Radical Visibility: QueerCrip Fashion and Performance
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How do you hack your wardrobe to make it fully celebrate the intersection of all of your identities? We will explore the idea of Radical Visibility, a QueerCrip movement based on highlighting the parts of us that society typically shuns. We will discuss designing for disability, gender, race, size, sexuality, and how to run your own line. We will engage in hands-on dress up time and body movement work, which will culminate in a fashion performance and mini dance party.
Presenters
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Sky Cubacub

Rebirth Garments
Sky Cubacub is a non-binary Filipinx human from Chicago, IL. Rebirth Garments is their line of wearables for the full spectrum of gender, size, and ability. They maintain the notion of Radical Visibility, a movement based on claiming our bodies and, through the use of bright colors... Read More →
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Compton Quashie

Compton Q and Rebirth Garments
Several forces fuel Compton Quashie as a Chicago based designer and artist. Through exploration and research they focus on issues surrounding cultural history and appropriation. Themes of Afrofuturism, gender fluidity, popular and material culture, historical narratives, and the rapidly... Read More →

Sunday June 18, 2017 1:00pm - 2:30pm EDT
Student Center: Hilberry C
  Hands-on Session

1:00pm EDT

Tendings: Sustainable Artful Lives
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Disability culture poets and performance artists Stephanie Heit and Petra Kuppers will lead short meditation exercises combining experiential anatomy and writing, followed by an open salon. Participants will come away from this session with practical exercises for sustainable, responsible, artful living.
Presenters
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Stephanie Heit

Independent/Interdependent Artist, Turtle Disco
Stephanie Heit is a poet, dancer, and teacher of somatic writing, Contemplative Dance Practice, and Kundalini Yoga. She lives with bipolar disorder and is a member of the Olimpias, an international disability performance collective. Her debut poetry collection, The Color She Gave... Read More →
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Petra Kuppers

Disability/Surrealism/Feminism/Land-Based Work, The Olimpias/Turtle Disco/University of Michigan
Petra Kuppers is a queercrip disability culture activist and a community performance artist who teaches at the University of Michigan and Goddard College. She is the Artistic Director of The Olimpias, an international disability culture collective (www.olimipias.org). In 2016/17... Read More →

Sunday June 18, 2017 1:00pm - 2:30pm EDT
Student Center: Room 025
  Hands-on Session

1:00pm EDT

The Free Black Women's Library
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The Free Black Women's Library is an interactive mobile library that features a collection of 650 books written by Black women, as well as readings, film screenings, performance, visual art, writing circles, and critical conversation. The library centers the brilliance and imagination of Black women while nurturing space for creativity and connection. In this session we will explore themes in Black women's literature and examine how they provide a platform for healing and liberation. We will examine the power of books as portals towards self discovery and radical thinking.
Presenters
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OlaRonke Akinmowo

Creator + Director, The Free Black Women's Library
olaronke akinmowo is an interdisciplinary artist, set decorator, yoga teacher, cultural worker, and mom from Brooklyn, New York. She is also the Creator & Director of The Free Black Women's Library, a public art project that centers and celebrates the voices of Black women in literature... Read More →

Sunday June 18, 2017 1:00pm - 2:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 137
  Hands-on Session

1:00pm EDT

The Vision Archive: Picturing the World We Want to Live In
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How can open source, community-owned archives help us build the world we want to live in? What if community members could easily access, use, remix and re-catalog the contents of those archives? In this session, we'll share lessons from the development of Visionarchive.io, an open source library of visionary icons co-created by artists and activists. We'll whip up some icons, tinker with the catalog and remix icons into posters, inspiring new ideas about archives and new collaborations. 
Presenters
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Gracen Brilmyer

Doctoral Student, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
Gracen Brilmyer is a PhD student in Information Studies at UCLA. Their research lies at the intersection of disability studies, sexuality studies, and archival studies, centering on the history of colonialism, toxicity, and disability within natural history museums. Through this work... Read More →
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Una Lee

Una Lee is a graphic designer, community-led design facilitator, and community organizer. She is the creative director o, Design Justice Network / And Also Too
Una Lee is a graphic designer and collaborative design facilitator. Starting with the belief that those who stand to be most impacted by design must be centered in design processes, she works with and within communities on tools and campaigns for a more just and beautiful world. Una... Read More →

Sunday June 18, 2017 1:00pm - 2:30pm EDT
McGregor: Room L/M
  Hands-on Session

1:00pm EDT

Artists and Organizers Shifting Culture
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Our communities need visionary solutions, and artists will lead the way. In this session, we’ll explore how artists and organizers produce transformative work through collaborative, not transactional, relationships. Using stories from the Trans Day of Resilience art project, Echoing Ida writing program, and more, we’ll share how to center the radical imaginations of culture workers. Participants will leave with tried and true principles designed to shift culture and fuel any movement.
Presenters
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Kemi Alabi

Cultural Strategy Director, Forward Together
Kemi Alabi is a Chicago-based poet and cultural strategist.
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Micah Bazant

Forward Together
Micah Bazant is a trans visual artist who makes work inspired by struggles to decolonize ourselves from white supremacy, patriarchy, ableism, and the gender binary. They co-founded the national Trans Day of Resilience art project (tdor.co) and the Trans Life and Liberation Art S... Read More →
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Taja Lindley

Taja Lindley is a writer and artist based in Brooklyn, New York. She is the founder and Managing Member of Colored Girls Hustle, and a member of Echoing Ida and Harriet's Apothecary. Lindley considers herself a healer and an activist, creating socially engaged artwork that reflects... Read More →
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Bishakh Som

Bishakh’s comics have appeared in The Other Side: An Anthology of Queer Paranormal Romance, The Boston Review, Black Warrior Review, Drunken Boat, The Brooklyn Rail, Buzzfeed, Ink Brick, The Huffington Post, The Graphic Canon and the Eisner and Harvey-winning anthology Little... Read More →

Sunday June 18, 2017 1:00pm - 2:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 131
  Panel-Presentation

1:00pm EDT

Get Ready Stay Ready Panel Discussion
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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
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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

Real Talk with Major Donors
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How do you navigate power dynamics, stay grounded in grassroots fundraising values, and meet your fundraising goals while having the relationships you want with your donors? A panel of major donors will discuss their experiences in giving and share fundraising strategies. Attendees will have time to think through and practice major donor fundraising strategies.
Presenters
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Kirin

National Organzier, Resource Generation
she/her femmepremacy
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Adam Roberts

Resource Generation
Adam is a National Organizer with Resource Generation, which organizes young people with wealth & class privilege ages 18-35 to become transformative leaders working toward the equitable distribution of wealth, land & power. As a white guy from a wealthy family, he's forever grateful... Read More →

Sunday June 18, 2017 1:00pm - 2:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 123
  Panel-Presentation

1:00pm EDT

Riverwise: Writing Our History, Writing Our Future
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Riverwise joins a tradition of publications dedicated to truth telling. We will explore how to combine print and digital media to create a powerful alternative voice to challenge the dominant narratives told by mainstream media. Collective members will share our experience, encouraging participants to tell their stories of Detroit. Participants are encouraged to contribute ideas, stories, and imagination to future issues.
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Eric Campbell

Managing editor Riverwise, Riverwise
Eric Campbell is the coordinator of Riverwise magazine. He is a journalist formerly with the Michigan Citizen. He is a lifelong Detroiter, father of two.
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Gloria Aneb House

Editor, Riverwise collective
Dr. Gloria (Aneb) House was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) activist and part of Mississippi Freedom Summer where she helped initiate Freedom Schools. She is an internationally acknowledged human rights activists, poet, organizer, writer and educator.
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Shea Howell

National Council of Elders
Shea Howell is a Detroit based activist and writer with the Boggs Center, Detroit Independent Freedom Schools, and Riverwise Magazine. She is a member of the National Council of Elders and is a professor of communication at Oakland University.

Sunday June 18, 2017 1:00pm - 2:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 129
  Panel-Presentation

1:00pm EDT

Graphic Designers, Printers and Programmers Resist
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What does it look like for graphic designers, printers, and programmers to resist in the current political climate? We know that resistance at the local level is critical, and that effective visual language can help communicate information. In this session we will share our experience as part of a loose network in Detroit called What Is To Be Done?. As a group we will discuss methods for working, outline best practices, and extend our networks.
Presenters
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Danielle Aubert

Danielle Aubert is a graphic designer interested in the intersection of graphic design, labor, materials, and software. She is currently researching the output of Fredy Perlman and the Detroit Printing Co-op (1969-1980). She participated in the Design Justice Network Gathering in 2016 and organized a session with Bianca Ibarlucea and Kikko Paradela at the 2017 AMC. She teaches at Wayne State University., Design Justice Network
Danielle Aubert is a graphic designer interested in the intersection of graphic design, labor, materials, and software. She is currently researching the output of Fredy Perlman and the Detroit Printing Co-op (1969-1980). Since January she has been working with What Is To Be Done... Read More →
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Paul Goodrich

What Is To Be Done?
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Bianca Ibarlucea

What Is To Be Done?
What Is To Be Done? is a loose coalition of graphic designers, printers and allies united against fascism. WITBD emerged out of a gathering of designers and printers who came together following the general election seeking ways to think through the present moment. Following that initial... Read More →
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Kikko Paradela

What Is To Be Done?
Kikko is an independent designer based in Detroit. He teaches Interaction Design in the Graphic Design department at the College for Creative Studies. He is also a member of OmniCorpDetroit.

Sunday June 18, 2017 1:00pm - 2:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 113
  Strategy Session

1:00pm EDT

The Building of Black Detroit Tour Part 2
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Detroit's African-American community was built on a revolutionary fight for freedom. In this tour we will learn about Detroit's history around the issue of race, and how Black activists, organizations and businesses fought faith, freedom and financial self-determination to control their own reality and environment.
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Jamon Jordan

BIO: Jamon Jordan is an educator, writer & historian. Also known as Baba Jamon, he has been a teacher of African & African American history for 20 years and a researcher of Black history for decades . He taught at the African centered Nsoroma Institute in Detroit for 10 years. He now runs Black Scroll Network History & Tours, where he leads tours and presentations dealing with African & African American history in the Detroit area, and throughout Michigan and the United States. He has given over 100 tours and presentations for Detroit Public Schools, Walled Lake Public Schools, and numerous charter schools, as well as university class groups from Wayne State, Michigan State, Georgetown, New York University & the University of Michigan. He has given hundreds of lectures and presentations for schools, churches, and organizations, including the Detroit Historical Society, the Historical Society of Michigan, the Jewish Historical Society, and the Underground Railroad National Conference. He has presented, Black Scroll Network History & Tours

Sunday June 18, 2017 1:00pm - 2:30pm EDT
Shuttle Stop: Anthony Wayne & Kirby
  Tour/Field Trip
  • Track Disrupting Mainstream History
  • Audience Everyone
  • Hashtag #BuildBlackDetroit
  • View Track Info Detroit's African-American community was built on a revolutionary fight for freedom. In this tour we will learn about Detroit's history around the issue of race, and how Black activists, organizations and businesses fought faith, freedom and financial self-determination to control their own reality and environment.

3:00pm EDT

Closing Plenary: Popular Cultures for New Worlds
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Pop culture is often code for mainstream media’s representation of the status quo. In many cases, it intentionally omits our voices, identities, bodies, ideas, art, media and cultural organizing. It also relies on our brilliance to function. Our closing AMC plenary brings together some of the most dynamic leaders of culture and creativity to explore what it means to use avenues of popular culture to build new worlds. These panelists continue to subvert, critique, make noise and challenge spaces and institutions to rethink their definitions of who pop culture is created by and for, and what it can do. (Shuttles will be offered from WSU campus and hotels to closing plenary.)
Moderators
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Morgan Willis

Morgan Willis is the program director of the Allied Media Conference. She is also a writer and editor of the anthology Outside the XY: Queer, Black and Brown Masculinity. She consults with projects and organizations seeking to develop their creative, community and organizational strategies... Read More →

Presenters
avatar for Kimberly Drew

Kimberly Drew

Kimberly Drew (a.k.a. @museummammy) is a writer and curator with a passion for innovation in art, fashion, and cultural studies. Drew received her B.A. from Smith College in Art History and African-American Studies, with a concentration in Museum Studies. An avid lover and proponent... Read More →
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Sameer Gardezi

Sameer is an international award-winning screenwriter who has written for several networks including Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, The CW, FOX, ABC and NBC. He has worked on such critically acclaimed shows as the Peabody Award-winning Aliens in America, Matthew Perry’s Mr. Sunshine... Read More →
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Crissle West

Crissle West is a media personality and writer currently based in Harlem. She is co-host of the critically acclaimed comedy podcast The Read, which she and her friend Kid Fury have hosted since 2013. Crissle was raised in Oklahoma and moved to NYC in 2012 in search of neighbors who... Read More →

Sunday June 18, 2017 3:00pm - 4:30pm EDT
DeRoy Auditorium
  Plenary

4:45pm EDT

Closing Celebration
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What are the seeds we intend to carry back home with us from AMC2017? How will we continue to get ready and stay ready in all the days between now and AMC2018? Join Detroit activists and artists Halima Cassells, B. Anthony Holley, ill Weaver, Britney Stoney, Onyx Ashanti, Ahya Simone, and the Church of the Messiah Drumline, as we come together for song, reflection, and celebration to conclude the 19th annual Allied Media Conference.  

Sunday June 18, 2017 4:45pm - 5:30pm EDT
DeRoy Auditorium

6:00pm EDT

Kicking Literacy Kickball Game
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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.
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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

6:00pm EDT

Black Independence Celebration
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What does freedom look like? What stories will and should be told about black history? Chicago space cultivators will commemorate Juneteenth through an evening of art, film, music, dance and storytelling. This program will engage storytellers, visual artists, filmmakers and musicians from Detroit, Chicago and more. Hosted by AMFM, Black Eutopia and Party Noire.

"Nosh Pit" food truck will be serving vegetarian food options from 6pm-10pm. 
Sunday June 18, 2017 6:00pm - 10:00pm EDT
Baltimore Gallery 314 E Baltimore Ave, Detroit, MI 48202
  AMC @ Night

8:00pm EDT

Allied Ever After
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The AMC is over! Come get down with your AMC friends. Sets by: the Anthology of Booty DJ Crew (DC, NOLA), DJ Mike Meow, BEIGE, and (____) STACKS.
Sunday June 18, 2017 8:00pm - Monday June 19, 2017 2:00am EDT
Cass Cafe 4620 Cass Ave, Detroit, MI 48201
  AMC @ Night
 
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