Registration is now open for YWCA Madison’s Hybrid Racial Justice Summit which will be held Sept. 28-30 this year.
“2020 has shown and taught us so much about what we do not want to return to. There is no greater time than the present to reimagine us, who we are, and who we want to be,” Vanessa McDowell, CEO of YWCA Madison, said in a statement.
YWCA Madison’s 20th Racial Justice Summit theme will be “Reimagining Us: Unapologetic Love, Transformative Justice, and Radical Imagination.”
“Our invitation this year is the continuation of co-creating a legacy of racial justice and collective liberation for future generations by deliberately seeding who we need to be as whole people in relationship with each other and nature,” YWCA Madison said in a statement announcing the summit. “In this common imperative of Reimagining Us, we offer the practices of unapologetic love, transformative justice, and radical imagination as compasses for our journey towards co-liberation.
“In the face of the violence of racialized hate, bias, and oppression, we will invite people and organizations to practice unapologetic love as we uproot systems of oppression from within and around us while seeding and nurturing ways of being, practices, and systems that center humanity, community, growth, and restoration,” the organization added.
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The YWCA Madison 2021 Racial Justice Summit will offer a combination of virtual keynotes and online community spaces throughout the day on Tuesday, Sept. 28 to Thursday, Sept. 30 as well as a limited selection of curated in-person offerings on Wednesday, Sept. 29 at the Monona Terrace Convention Center and other locations in Wisconsin. Some of the featured keynote speakers for the 20th Summit will be Valarie Kaur, Mariame Kaba, Darnell Moore, Mia Mingus, Tokata Iron Eyes, adrienne maree brown, and Parker J. Palmer. More speakers will be announced in the coming weeks.
To register or learn more about the summit, click here.
