National authors like Ruha Benjamin, Clint Smith, Autumn Brown, Kimberly Brazwell and Susan Raffo will be featured at the upcoming YWCA Racial Justice Summit. Registration is now open for the annual Summit that will take place Oct. 3-5.
“The Summit is both a unique professional development opportunity for staff across organizations while also offering opportunities for multiracial and intergenerational dialogue and collective visioning across areas of intersectional racial justice such as: restorative justice, gender justice, healing justice, immigration justice, disability justice, climate justice, economic justice, organizational change for equity, and more,” YWCA Madison said in a statement.
The YWCA Racial Justice Summit will also feature local racial justice and restorative justice practitioners, educators, artists, facilitators, and community organizers, to curate a combination of inspiring virtual keynotes, small group in-person sessions and gatherings, moving art, music and more.
“This year’s summit is really centered around creating new possibilities,” Vanessa McDowell, CEO of YWCA Madison, said in a statement. “We are creating a world that we want to see, but each of us has to take our part in making this a reality. Join us in creating these new possibilities together.”
The first two days of the Summit, Tuesday, Oct. 3, and Wednesday, Oct. 4, will be virtual, and the third day, Thursday, Oct. 5, will be in-person.
This year, the Summit will feature a selection of curated virtual sessions and in-person experiences by local and regional racial justice practitioners as well as in-person institutes by featured keynotes Autumn Brown, Kim Brazwell and Susan Raffo. The in-person day will also feature an art exhibition, a pop-up market with BIPOC creators and Justice Initiatives, and will end with a Rooftop Party at the Monona Terrace Convention Center.
YWCA Madison’s holistic model will guide attendees in understanding the role that their personal racial justice learning, unlearning, healing and practice has in shaping relationships and cultures in all areas of their lives as well as their role in transforming structural inequities for justice and liberation, YWCA Madison said in a statement.
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