Pre-Conference: Collective Thriving: Reclaiming Our Spiritual, Healing and Ancestral Wisdom in Social Justice Movements
| 7:45 AM – 8:30 AM | Registration and Breakfast |
| 8:30 AM – 10:30 AM | Opening Session | Welcoming Ceremony and Plenary (Jordan Ballroom) |
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| 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM |
Beyond Edification: Anti-Racist Work that Heals – Ijeoma Oluo, Author, So You Want To Talk About Race? |
| A discussion on how anti-racist work has often traditionally been done at the expense of people of color and how we can envision new pathways rooted in the healing and humanity of people of color. | |
| 10:30 AM – 10:45 AM | Break |
| 10:45 AM – 12:00 PM |
Morning Workshops |
Thriving Individuals: Reclaiming Our Spirituality, Healing, Resilience, and Ancestral WisdomSurviving & Thriving in a Culture of Violence: Building a Movement Rooted in Love and Resilience, Christina Castro, PhD, Three Sisters Collective Thriving Families: Anti-oppression & Social Equity for Indigenous, Latinx, and Resettled Families“I’ll See You at Sweat: Understanding Ceremony, Healing, & Sovereignty in Indigenous Domestic Violence Work”, Melanie Fillmore, Boise State University & Tai Simpson, Idaho Coalition Against Sexual & Domestic Violence Responding with RAHMA: A movement to institutionalize sexual violence prevention in Muslim American communities, Nadiah Mohajir & Navila Rashid, HEART Women & Girls Thriving Communities: Safety & Community AccountabilityAnti-Racist Brainstorming for Work and Life, Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want To Talk About Race? Forced Marriage and Child Marriage in America – How identifying and responding to individuals at risk can prevent future violence, Casey Swegman & Hellitz Villegas, Tahirih Justice Center Thriving Societies: Transformative Cultural StrategiesTowards Wholeness and Connection: Transcending Ideology and Moving Beyond our Brains to Show up for Healing and Liberation, Ed Heisler, Men As Peacemakers & Kelly Miller & Bryan Lyda, Idaho Coalition Against Sexual & Domestic Violence Creating Our Future with Cultural Strategy, Aparna Shah, Power California |
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| 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM | Luncheon |
| Time Travelers, Healers, Freedom Dreamers: An Introduction to Resonance Network – Alexis Flanagan, Resonance Network | |
| Idaho Book signing by Ijeoma Oluo (12:00 PM – 12:20 PM) | |
| 1:15 PM – 1:30 PM | Break |
| 1:30 PM – 2:45 PM |
Afternoon Workshops |
Thriving Individuals: Reclaiming Our Spirituality, Healing, and Ancestral WisdomIt’s Complicated: Changing Our Relationship to Spirituality in Social Justice Movements, ML Daniel, Spiritual Alchemy Thriving Families: Anti-oppression & Social equity for Indigenous, Latinx, and Resettled families & ChildrenResponding with RAHMA: A movement to institutionalize sexual violence prevention in Muslim American communities, Nadiah Mohajir & Navila Rashid, HEART Women & Girls Inheriting our Mother’s Garden: Exploring the Idaho Thriving Families Latinx Campaign through an Indigenous Method Perspective, Nivea Castañeda, PhD, Boise State University, Micaela Ríos Anguiano, Idaho Coalition Against Sexual & Domestic Violence Indigenous Thriving Includes YOU! What Pieces of the Puzzle Are You Holding? Cristine Davidson, Minnesota Indian Women’s Sexual Assault Coalition Thriving Communities: Safety & Community AccountabilityThe Silent Epidemic: Responding to sexual assault among people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, Erica McFadden & Maureen Casey Child Marriage in Idaho – Identifying & Closing Protection Gaps that Put Girls At Risk of Lifelong Harm, Casey Swegman, Hellitz Villegas, Tahirih Justice Center Thriving Societies: Transformative Cultural StrategiesReproduce & Revolt: A Social Justice Poster Workshop, Favianna Rodriguez, Culture Strike Intergenerational Wisdom Sharing for Healing the Past and Creating the Future, Aparna Shah, Power California & Rebeka Ndosi, Youth Healing Justice Network |
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| 2:45 PM – 3:00 PM | Break |
| 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM |
Plenary: Cultural Strategy Towards Collective Thriving- Favianna Rodriguez, CultureArt is always a reflection, a testament, and a record of our human condition. Cultural strategy is rooted in a deep history of artistic leadership within and alongside social movements, from the Mexican mural tradition to the art of the Black Panther newspapers – the power of art as a movement in and of itself. Cultural strategy centers artists, storytellers, and cultural influencers as agents of social change and speaks to our broadest visions and highest hopes towards collective thriving. Over the long arc, cultural strategy cracks open, reimagines and rewrites fiercely-held narratives, transforming our shared spaces and norms that make up culture. Mini-Plenary: Cultural Strategy In Action- Aparna Shah, Power CaliforniaKey movement, network, organizational, and individual impacts and learnings about cultural strategy from the Until We Are All Free initiative as well as electoral and grassroots organizing campaigns with multiracial and intergenerational communities. |
| 7:45 AM – 8:30 AM | Registration and Breakfast |
| 8:10 AM – 8:30 AM | Music by Ramona Awes, Angela Luckey, Damian Rodriguez Sponsored by the Idaho Commission on the Arts: Fieldwork for the Folk & Traditional Arts Program’s Mexican Music Project. Ramona Awes and Angela Luckey from Pocatello have been singing and playing music together since 1969. With family histories from San Antonio, Texas, the Rio Grande Country of Colorado, New Mexico, and the Mexican state of Durango, the musical styles of Mariachi, boleros, and rancheras are held close to their hearts. |
| 8:30 AM – 10:30 AM | Opening Session | Welcoming Ceremony and Plenary (Jordan Ballroom) |
| 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM |
Plenary: Building an Inclusive Society Starting from the Margins, Monica Ramirez, Founder and President, Justice for Migrant Women |
| Marginalized communities are often not at the table when decisions are being made about and for their lives. Instead, experts who have studied their lives or think they know best make recommendations, draw conclusions, implement plans and take action that is meant to serve society, including the most visible. Ms. Ramirez will discuss the importance of beginning at the margins and moving to the center in order to create a more just society that is inclusive of diverse perspectives, circumstances and lived experiences. She will use this framing to also address the trauma inflicted on marginalized communities by current immigration policies and practices, how said policies and practices greatly impede Latinx women and girls from seeking help for abuse and sexual assault, and the work she is now doing through the #MeToo movement to address these barriers. | |
| 10:30 AM – 10:45 AM | Break |
| 10:45 AM – 12:00 PM |
Morning Workshops |
Thriving Individuals: Reclaiming Our Spirituality, Healing, and Ancestral WisdomMind, Body, Breath Connection, Bonnie Fairbanks Thriving While Healing: The Interdependent Healing Process of LGBTQ+ Survivors of Sexual Assault, Elizabeth Bringier Thriving Families: Anti-oppression & Social equity for Indigenous, Latinx, and Resettled families & ChildrenHow to Build an Inclusive Society Starting from the Margins, Monica Ramirez, Founder and President, Justice for Migrant Women Thriving Communities: Safety & Community AccountabilityStrategies for Collective Resilience in an Age of White Nationalism, Amy Herzfeld-Copple and Zakir Khan, Western States Center The Silent Epidemic: Responding to sexual assault among people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, Erica McFadden & Maureen Casey How The National Maternal Mortality and Abortion Access Crisis is Impacting GBV Survivors, Farah Tanis, Founder & Executive Director, Black Women’s Blueprint Thriving Societies: Transformative Cultural StrategiesChisme as Survival: Unpacking “Chisme” As Weapon, Joke, and Record-Keeping Tool, Ruben Angel, Queer Xicano Chisme |
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| 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM | Luncheon |
| Idaho Coalition Against Sexual & Domestic Violence – Transformation Toward Collective Thriving – Kelly Miller, Executive Director, Idaho Coalition Against Sexual & Domestic Violence We Choose All of Us Story Circles – Malia Collins, Assistant Professor of English & Creative Writing, College of Western Idaho & Toni Brinegar, Board Member, Idaho Coalition Against Sexual & Domestic Violence |
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| 1:15 PM – 1:30 PM | Break |
| 1:30 PM – 2:45 PM |
Afternoon Workshops |
Thriving Individuals: Reclaiming Our Spirituality, Healing, and Ancestral WisdomSurviving & Thriving in a Culture of Violence: Building a Movement Rooted in Love and Resilience, Christina Castro, PhD, Three Sisters Collective Mind, Body & Breath Connection, Bonnie Fairbanks Thriving Families: Anti-oppression & Social equity for Indigenous, Latinx, and Resettled families & ChildrenChisme as Survival: Unpacking “Chisme” As Weapon, Joke, and Record-Keeping Tool, Ruben Angel, Queer Xicano Chisme Thriving Communities: Safety & Community AccountabilityStrategies for Collective Resilience in an Age of White Nationalism, Amy Herzfeld-Copple and Zakir Khan, Western States Center Queering the Narrative: Elevating the Resiliency of Queer and Trans Survivors, Fatima Arain and Maya Perez, Northwest Network Thriving Societies: Transformative Cultural StrategiesWeaving Communities Through Story, Malia Collins, College of Western Idaho & Kristen Zimmerman, co-founder, Movement Strategy Center |
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| 2:45 PM – 3:00 PM | Break |
| 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM |
Mini-Plenary: A Conversation on Indigenous FuturismTai Simpson, Nimiipuu (Nez Perce Tribe of Idaho), Idaho Coalition Against Sexual & Domestic Violence, Cristine Davidson, White Earth Anishinaabe, Minnesota Indian Women’s Sexual Assault Coalition, & Sarah Curtiss, Anishinaabe, Co-Executive Director, Men As Peacemakers |
| 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM |
Plenary: Collective Thriving: Reclaiming our Spiritual, Healing and Ancestral Wisdoms in Social Justice Movements, Farah Tanis, Founder & Executive Director, Black Women’s Blueprint & ML Daniel, Spiritual AlchemyImagine what would be possible for social justice movements if we as advocates, activists, and allies reclaimed, named, and operated out of our spiritual, healing, and ancestral wisdoms. If we created space to listen deeply to and draw from the deep reservoir of wisdom and knowledge within our own beings, the difference it would mean to our health, well-being and wholeness – both individually and collectively – could change the trajectory of social justice movements and usher in a new world reality where thriving for all is the given. Imagine what is possible when we show up in movement space in an embodied way; spiritually alive; emotionally and physically attuned to our bodies; and generationally connected! |
