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C’S 30th AR FACING RACE A NATIONAL CONFERENCE Define Justice. Make Change. November 15-17, 2012 BALTIMORE HILTON BALTIMORE, MD

30/.3/2%$ "9 4(% !00,)%$ 2%3%!2#( #%.4%2 s !2#/2' THE APPLIED RESEARCH CENTER’S (ARC) MISSION IS TO BUILD AWARENESS, SOLUTIONS, AND LEADERSHIP FOR RACIAL JUSTICE BY GENERATING TRANSFORMATIVE IDEAS, INFORMATION AND EXPERIENCES. ABOUT ARC

The Applied Research Center (ARC) is a thirty-year-old, national racial justice organization. ARC envisions a vibrant world in which people of all races create, share and enjoy resources and relationships equitably, unleashing individual potential, embracing collective responsibility and generating global prosperity. We strive to be a leading values-driven social justice enterprise where the culture and commitment created by our multi-racial and diverse staff supports individual and organizational excellence and sustainability.

ARC’s mission is to build awareness, solutions and leadership for racial justice by generating transformative ideas, information and experiences. We define racial justice as the systematic fair treatment of people of all races, resulting in equal opportunities and outcomes for all and we work to advance racial justice through media, research, and leadership development. s MEDIA: ARC is the publisher of Colorlines.com, an award-winning, daily news site where race matters. Colorlines brings a critical racial lens and analysis to breaking news stories, as well as in-depth investigations. In 2012, Colorlines’ Shattered Families investigation was awarded the Hillman Prize in Web Journalism and Colorlines partnered with The Nation on the Voting Rights Watch series. In addition to promoting racial justice through our own media, ARC staff is sought after as experts on current race issues, with regular media appearances on MSNBC, NPR, and other national and local broadcast, print, and online outlets. s RESEARCH: ARC conducts cutting-edge, original research on current racial justice issues. ARC’s research and public policy agenda is built around the concept of “Race and …” – highlighting the intersection and compounding effects of race and key societal issues as demonstrated by our original and follow-up reports on Millennials, Activism, and Race and Good Food, Good Jobs For All. ARC research also provides insights into the best ways to strengthen social change practice by offering policy solutions that address the ways in which racism interacts with other forms of contemporary oppressions. s LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT: ARC supports activism on complex racial justice issues in several ways, including action mobilization, skill-building and leadership development, organization and alliance building, issue framing and messaging, and advancing solutions. A key example is our Drop the I-Word Campaign, which seeks to eliminate the widespread usage of the inhumane and racially derogatory word “illegal” in reference to immigrants as a way to prevent further punitive and racist public policies. In addition, ARC hosts the Facing Race National Conference, the largest national, multi-racial gathering on racial justice and provides targeted online and offline training and consulting services through our Racial Justice Leadership Action Network.

ARC’s work to advance racial justice is grounded in the following core values: s PEOPLE OF COLOR: We value the voices, experiences, cultures, intellect and multi-dimensionality of people of color. s JUSTICE: We value fairness, the best foundation for unity among all people. To learn more s TRANSFORMATION: We value the ability of individuals and systems to change in ways that make about our work, racial justice possible. We recognize the importance of struggle in fueling transformation. please visit us at www.arc.org s BRIDGING: We value the insights, relationships and holistic understandings that are deepened and follow us on when divergent paths come together. Facebook at www. s EXPRESSION: We value voicing and sharing our viewpoints with integrity even when it is facebook.com/arc. difficult, unpopular or risky. org and on Twitter @racialjustice. s ADAPTABILITY: We value relevance and resourcefulness in the face of changing social, To support our work economic, political and ideological environments. with a donation, s DELIGHT: We value making space for laughter, beauty, and joy in the work of social change. please visit www. arc.org/donate.

DEFINE JUSTICE. MAKE CHANGE. 1 Welcome.

Welcome to Facing Race 2012! Looking back 30 years to the time of our founding, it’s easy to see the events and trends that I couldn’t have imagined then. I didn’t imagine we’d have a President of color, in spite of all the nice lessons my immigrant child mind had absorbed about the land of opportunity. I didn’t imagine the widespread return of the death penalty, and a determined movement arising to outlaw it. I didn’t imagine that Asian and Latino voters would become political power blocks that couldn’t be ignored.

I didn’t see these things coming 30 years ago, but someone did —many someones— and it’s the fruit of their labor we are eating now.

We’ve made a lot of progress as a people and as a movement, but it isn’t enough. The other side, which is perfectly happy exploiting racial histories and hierarchies for profit and power, has been busy too. Someone imagined sideswiping a law against banking discrimination with new unregulated mortgage “products” that stripped millions of families of their hard-earned homes. Someone else imagined what could be done to Rinku Sen (L) and Melinda Weekes (R) immigration policy on the heels of a massive terrorist attack. Yet others imagined ways Photo by: Nina Duncan to turn back the clock on voting rights, birth control, and worker protection.

Taking the long view can generate complacency or fatalism, and we need to be vigilant against those emotions that slow us down. It matters how urgently we press toward new victories. People are losing their homes, their chance at an education—indeed, their very lives—every day that we fail to do better as a society.

During the next two days, you’ll engage in a lot of future prediction, discussion of big ideas, pulling up of lessons learned. I hope you’ll keep your mind and heart open, because the beauty of our movement lies in our ability to go past self-interest and division. I hope you’ll learn and teach, because the whole is better when we all participate. I hope you’ll take up a crazy idea or two, make a new friend or two, and cook up an activity or two, because ideas, people, and action are the things that make our goal of achieving racial justice possible. Thirty years from now, someone will be glad that you did.

Rinku Sen President and Publisher, Applied Research Center/Colorlines.com

2 FACING RACE: A National Conference DEAR FRIENDS,

We made it! You made it! On behalf of the entire staff at the Applied Research Center/ Colorlines.com, I want to join our President and Publisher, Rinku Sen, in welcoming 5 Agenda you to Facing Race 2012 and this most charming of cities – Baltimore, U.S.A. It’s been Overview two years since many of us were together, and if you’re like me, it’s been two years of longing to return to this remarkable gathering of hearts, minds, spirits and personalities all directed towards deepening our practice of and push for racial justice. We want to 8 Keynote/ extend a particularly warm welcome to those of you who are joining us for the first time, Plenary Descriptions those who are new to this issue, our youngers and elders, and the several attendees who are joining us from outside of the contiguous United States. 9 Breakout Session Your investment of precious time and treasure during a season when resources are Descriptions few and distractions are many is a spectacular gift. Friends, let’s behold and engage each other’s brilliance and beauty knowing that with each encounter, we fashion the better world many of us still believe is possible, and divest from the Conference-as- 17 Race Flicks usual mentality that too often leaves us unaffected, exhausted and lonely in what is the Film Festival necessarily communal work of living out our values. Arts and The racialized signs of present (and previous) time—coded language, legislated 18 disenfranchisement, pitting groups against each other, and outright attacks—propels Culture us well beyond the claim of “colorblindness” our country is so obsessed with. In this vein, we come together not only to exhale among friends who “get it;” we seize this Media Sponsors as an opportunity to re-commit ourselves and our institutions to serious study, self- 23 examination, strategy, prayer, experimentation and every other resource worthy of our ambitious goal of a racially just society. 24 Speaker Bios In this time, in this place, we could think of no better way to celebrate ARC’s 30th Anniversary than with all of you as we embark upon the next thirty years of building 33 30th Anniversary awareness, leadership and solutions for racial justice. Please do not hesitate to let us know how we can make your engagement at Facing Race 2012 its very best. 34 Foundations+Donors

All my best, 35 Acknowledgements

36 Colorlines.com Melinda Weekes Managing Director, Applied Research Center/Colorlines.com

DEFINE JUSTICE. MAKE CHANGE. 3 We’re proud to host such a vibrantly diverse racial justice community at Facing Race and we’re fully committed to creating an inclusive and respectful space. We ask Creating each attendee to help make this aspiration a reality. Here are some helpful tips: an Inclusive s Be mindful of our wonderful diversity: Talk at a slower pace to help reduce language barriers. Accommodate people with different physical abilities. Let people decide for themselves which bathroom they belong in. Be aware of your privilege so that and you share the verbal space.

s Listen well and be open-minded: We come to this gathering at different points in Respectful our journeys—some as first-timers, others as seasoned social justice veterans. Be willing to learn—and to teach—with compassion, humility and patience. When mistakes are made, strive to be forthright and forgiving, and open rather than Space defensive.

s Engage rather than avoid: Our commonalities and our differences are an asset. for Rather than avoid difficult conversations, engage in them. Remember the power of Everyone using “I” statements and sharing stories from your own life experience. s Allow people to self-identify. If you’re unsure how someone wants to be identified, simply ask them rather than make assumptions based on appearance. You can ask, “How do you identify?” or “What gender pronoun/racial identifier do you prefer? “People of color” or “queer” can be positive unifying terms, but people may still prefer their specific and chosen identities to be named. No term works for everyone, and language and meaning are continually changing.

Here are a few of the linguistic habits we’ve cultivated at ARC, to give you a sense of how we navigate some specific things. There won’t be a quiz at the end of the conference.

— We call ourselves People of Color. We never use the word “minority.” People of color, is a politicized term of self-identification. It has a long, rich history of building solidarity in our communities, and we value its ability to speak to our experiences.

— We use both black and African American, and both American Indian and Native American. We also use Latino rather than Hispanic, and note that South Asians (from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka) are often confused with SouthEast Asians (from Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand).

— We use LGBT for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender, and sometimes we also use queer. The word transgender does not have ‘ed’ at the end.

— We don’t use the I-word. The word ‘illegal’ dehumanizes immigrants by relegating them to a permanent status, even though the word itself is flawed in terms of accuracy. For more information, visit our Drop the I-word Campaign site at www. droptheiword.com or stop by the Applied Research Center information table.

Thank you for helping us cultivate an environment of shared respect, learning and support at Facing Race.

4 FACING RACE: A National Conference SCHEDULE 2012 National AT A GLANCE FACING RACE CONFERENCE

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 15, 2012

12:30pm – 5:45pm – EAST BALTIMORE TOUR 5:00pm- 7:00pm – REGISTRATION OPENS In partnership with the Baltimore Racial Justice Alliance. Tour of East Baltimore will explore the impact of racism on 7:00pm- 9:00pm – FACING RACE OPENING RECEPTION: community development, disinvestment, and the environment CELEBRATING 30 YEARS OF THE APPLIED RESEARCH CENTER in a historically African American urban community. Holiday Ballroom 1 – East Building, 2nd Floor Presenters: Marisela B. Gomez, M.D., Ph.D., author of Race, Emcee: Melinda Weekes, ARC Managing Director Class, Power and Organizing in East Baltimore: Rebuilding Guest Speaker: Benjamin Todd Jealous, CEO of the NAACP Abandoned Communities in America; Glenn Ross, East Baltimore community advocate for over forty years and creator Please enjoy the Live Screen Printing demonstration by Dignidad of “The TOXIC TOUR of East Baltimore” Rebelde in the entry way.

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DEFINE JUSTICE. MAKE CHANGE. 5 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2012

7:30am – A Space To Be s .O *USTICE .O 0EAS 'OOD &OOD 'OOD *OBS Meditative Space open (Stone, 3rd Floor—West Building) (Peale C, 1st Floor—East Building) Art Gallery open (Key Ballroom 9, 2nd Floor—West Building) s $EFENDING $EMOCRACY (OW TO &IGHT /FF 6OTER )$ 0URGES and Other Attacks (Carroll A, 3rd Floor—West Building) 8:00am – REGISTRATION/CHILDCARE REGISTRATION OPENS (East Foyer, 2nd Floor—West Building) 1:00pm – 3:15pm – Lunch +Self-Organized Sessions 8:00am – 10:00am – Continental Breakfast 3:30pm – 5:00pm – BREAKOUT SESSION 2 ° Page 11 (South Foyer, 2nd Floor—West Building) Arts, Culture & Media Track: 8:30am – 9:00am – WELCOME AND OPENING, DAY ONE s !DDRESSING 2ACISM 5SING 4HEATER OF THE /PPRESSED Emcees: Deanna Zandt and W. Kamau Bell (Key Ballroom 12, 2nd Floor—West Building) s 4ALKING !BOUT 2ACE 2ACIAL *USTICE 4HROUGH &ILM #OLLABORATION  WELCOME TO BALTIMORE: Diane Bell-McKoy, President and Community Conversation (Blake, 2nd Floor—East Building) CEO of Associated Black Charities s &ROM THE 4RENCHES 3TORIES ON 2ACE $ATING  ,OVE (Paca, 3rd Floor—West Building) PRESIDENT’S REMARKS: Rinku Sen, President of the Applied s 7E 7EAR THE -ASS1 /NE !RTISTS $IS COVERY OF &ACE 2ACE AND Research Center (ARC) and the publisher of Colorlines.com. Ritual in a Digital Age (Key Ballroom 10, 2nd Floor—West Building) s 2ACE&LICKS 3ERIES  (ARVEST OF %MPIRE 9:00am – 11:00am – OPENING PLENARY ° Page 8 (Brent, 3rd Floor—West Building) ° Page 17 Now What? Debriefing the Election and Talking Governance (Key Ballroom, 2nd Floor—West Building) Organizing & Skill Building Track: s )NTERNALIZING 2ACIAL %QUITY )NSTITUTIONALLY Gary Delgado, PH.D, Film Presentation (Carroll B, 3rd Floor—West Building) s $2%!-ERS AND &REEDOM 2IDERS 2ACIAL *USTICE !CROSS 'ENERATIONS 11:00am – 11:15am – Morning Break (Peale C, 1st Floor—East Building) s /RGANIZING 2ACIAL *USTICE 0HILANTHROPY (Carroll A, 3rd Floor—West Building) 11:15am – 12:45pm – BREAKOUT SESSION 1 ° Page 9 s 2ACIAL 0ROlLING %VERY 7HICH 7AY "UT ,OOSE (Douglass, 3rd Floor—West Building) Arts, Culture & Media Track s #ONSUMER "ASED 3TRATEGIES FOR !DVANCING 2ACIAL *USTICE s #AN 9OU (EAR -E .OW (OW !CTIVISTS AND !RTISTS ARE 2EBUILDING (Calloway A/B, 2nd Floor—East Building) the Media (Tubman A, 3rd Floor—West Building) s 2AISING &UNDS FOR 2ACIAL *USTICE (Tubman B, 3rd Floor—West Building) s #HANGING THE #ONVERSATION ON 2ACE (Key Ballroom 10, 2nd Floor—West Building) Research & Policy Track: s 4HE 2OOTS OF 2ACISM 3AY 7HAT (Calloway A/B, 2nd Floor—East Building) s %NERGY $EMOCRACY FOR !LL (Key Ballroom 11, 2nd Floor—West Building) s 2ACE AND -ASCULINITY 0ERILS 0RIDE AND 0USHING THE "OUNDARIES s 3YSTEMS #HANGE )NSIDE AND /UTSIDE 3TRATEGIES of Perception (Paca, 3rd Floor—West Building) (Hopkins, 3rd Floor-West Building) s 2ACE&LICKS 3ERIES  -IDDLE OF .OWHERE s .ATIONAL 3TUDENT "ILL OF 2IGHTS (Tilghman, 3rd Floor—West Building) (Brent, 3rd Floor—West Building) ° Page 17 s !DVANCING (EALTH %QUITY 5SING (EALTH )MPACT !SSESSMENT Community Organizing and Advocacy Organizing & Skill Building Track: (Tubman A, 3rd Floor—West Building) s 3TRUCTURAL 2ACISM  #RITICAL #ONCEPTS FOR 'ETTING TO 2ACIAL Justice (Key Ballroom 11, 2nd Floor—West Building) 5:00pm – 7:00pm – Dinner on your Own s &ROM "ROOKLYN TO "ALTIMORE THE &IGHT FOR &AIR $EVELOPMENT (Blake, 2rd Floor—East Building) 6:00pm – 7:00pm – MASSQ-ING s 2ACE  #LASS 7HY AN )NTERSECTIONAL !PPROACH IS #RITICAL IN Key 10, 2nd Floor—West Building Undoing Structural Racism (Tilghman, 3rd Floor—West Building) s %NTREPRENEURSHIP AND 2ACIAL *USTICE 7:00pm – 9:30pm – KEYNOTE EVENT ° Page 8 (Douglass, 3rd Floor—West Building) s )NNOVATIONS IN /RGANIZING IN #OMMUNITIES OF #OLOR JUNOT DÍAZ – THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE HER (Tubman B, 3rd Floor—West Building) 2ACE 4ALK 3EXUALITY  4EACHABLE -OMENTS FOR THE -ASSES Featuring Remarks by Junot Diaz and a conversation with Research & Policy Track: Rinku Sen (Key Ballroom, 2nd Floor—West Building) s 4HE #OLOR ,INE AND #AMPUS !DMISSIONS 4HE 0AST Present and Uncertain Future of Affirmative Action 9:30pm – 1:00am – JUNOT DÍAZ BOOK-SIGNING (until 10:15pm) (Marshall, 3rd Floor—West Building) & “RACE IN YO FACE” MASQUERADE PARTY s &ACING 2ACE ON 8ENOPHOBIC (ATE #RIMES Hosted by Bobbito Garcia aka Kool Bob Love (Carroll B, 3rd Floor—West Building) (Holiday Ballroom 1, 2nd Floor—East Building) s 3HATTERED &AMILIES 2ACIAL *USTICE AND 0ROSPECTS FOR 3YSTEMIC Change (Poe A/B, 2nd Floor—East Building) LIVE SCREEN PRINTING (West Foyer, 2nd Floor—East Building)

6 FACING RACE: A National Conference SATURDAY NOVEMBER 17, 2012

7:30am – A Space To Be s .EW 2ULES /RGANIZING TO %ND THE 0USH OUT #RISIS WITH 3OLUTIONS Meditative Space open (Stone, 3rd Floor—West Building) Not Suspensions (Blake, 2nd Floor, East Building) Art Gallery Space open (Key Ballroom 9, 2nd Floor—West Building) 12:30pm – 1:30pm – Collaboration Lunch 8:00am – REGISTRATION/CHILDCARE REGISTRATION OPENS (East Foyer – 2nd Floor—West Building) 1:30pm- 1:45pm – Afternoon Break 8:00am – 10:00am – Continental Breakfast 1:45pm – 3:15pm – BREAKOUT SESSION 4 ° Page 14 (South Foyer – 2nd Floor—West Building)

8:30am – 9:00am – WELCOME AND OPENING DAY TWO Arts, Culture & Media Track: Emcees: $EANNA :ANDT  7 +AMAU "ELL s !RT  !GITATION /N THE 0OWER OF #ULTURAL 3TRATEGY Remarks by Dr. Marvin Cheatham, National Action Network (Key Ballroom 10, 2nd Floor—West Building) (Key Ballroom, 2nd Floor—West Building) s 3TORYTELLING FOR 2ACIAL *USTICE (Tubman A Room, 3rd Floor—West Building) 9:00am – 10:45am – OPENING PLENARY ° Page 8 s .O "UDGET .O 0ROBLEM
S .EW 4OOLS &OR #REATING #ONTENT Race and Gender in the 21st Century and Telling Your Story (Tilghman, 3rd Floor—West Building) (Key Ballroom, 2nd Floor—West Building) s 7HATS &AITH 'OT 4O $O 7ITH )T (Paca, 3rd Floor—West Building) s 2ACE&LICKS 3ERIES  7ILDNESS “We’re Muslim, Don’t Panic” Performed by Amirah Sackett, (Brent Room, 3rd Floor—West Building) ° Page 17 Khadijah Sifterllah-Griffin, Iman Sifterllah-Griffin Organizing & Skill Building Track: 10:45am – 11:00am – Morning Break s (OW TO 4ALK !BOUT 2ACE IN THE #LASSROOM (Carroll B, 3rd Floor—West Building) 11:00am – 12:30pm – BREAKOUT SESSION 3 ° Page 13 s 7ORDS -ATTER /RGANIZING !GAINST "ULLY ,ANGUAGE (Carroll A, 3rd Floor—West Building) Arts, Culture & Media Track: s 7HATS THE &UTURE OF #OLLEGE FOR 3TUDENTS OF #OLOR s 4ELL 9OUR 3TORY -OVE 9OUR #AMPAIGN (Tubman B, 3rd Floor—West Building) (Douglass, 3rd Floor—West Building) s 'IRL&UTURE 9OUTH !CTIVISM AND %NDING 'ENDERED 6IOLENCE s 5SING 3OCIAL -EDIA TO #ONNECT #OMMUNITIES AND -AKE AN (Marshall, 3rd Floor—West Building) Impact—and Measure It! (Carroll A, 3rd Floor—West Building) s &ROM #OLORBLINDNESS TO %QUITY -INDEDNESS "REAKING 4HROUGH "IAS s ,IKE 2ACISM "UT &UNNIER 3OCIAL #HANGE 4HROUGH )NTERNET *OKES to Build Racial Justice (Key Ballroom 11, 2nd Floor—West Building) (Key Ballroom 10, 2nd Floor—West Building) s 2ACE&LICKS 3ERIES  .EW ,ENS 9OUTH 0RODUCED -EDIA Research & Policy Track: (Brent, 3rd Floor—West Building) ° Page 17 s -AKE 4HEM 0AY 7AYS TO (OLD )NSURANCE #OMPANIES !CCOUNTABLE to Addressing Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities Organizing & Skill Building Track: (Calloway A/B, 2nd Floor—East Building) s #ROSS 2ACIAL !LLIANCE "UILDING FOR 3OCIAL *USTICE AND )MMIGRANT s #AMPAIGN 7EAVING AND -OVEMENT "UILDING #HALLENGING THE Rights (Tubman B, 3rd Floor—West Building) Incarceration Nation through Creative Action s "ETTER 4OGETHER "RIDGING ,'"41 2IGHTS  2ACIAL *USTICE (Douglass Room, 3rd Floor—West Building) (Key Ballroom 11, 2nd Floor—West Building) s #RIMINALIZING 9OUTH IN "ALTIMORE 2ACE #LASS AND 'ENDER s 352* 3TRATEGIES FOR %NGAGING 7HITE 0EOPLE IN 2ACIAL *USTICE in Public Space (Blake, 2nd Floor—East Building) (Carroll B, 3rd Floor—West Building) s 2EPRODUCTIVE 2IGHTS AT THE )NTERSECTION OF #LASS 2ACE AND s 7OLVES IN 3HEEPS #LOTHING 3EXUAL (EALTH AS 7EDGE )SSUES IN Immigration Status (Key Ballroom 12, 2nd Floor—West Building) Communities of Color and Among Young People s 4HE &ACES OF $EVELOPMENT -OVING &ROM 2ACIAL AND #LASS )NEQUITY (Tilghman, 3rd Floor—West Building) (Hopkins, 3rd Floor—West Building) s "UILDING A ST #ENTURY ,ABOR -OVEMENT (Key Ballroom 12, 2nd Floor—West Building) 3:15pm – 3:30pm– Afternoon Break Research & Policy Track: 3:30pm – 5:30pm – CLOSING PLENARY ° Page 8 s &ROM 4ROY $AVIS TO -UMIA ! -ULTIRACIAL &IGHT TO %ND THE $EATH Culture Trumps Politics: Or Does It? Penalty (Calloway A/B, 2nd Floor—East Building) (Key Ballroom, 2nd Floor—West Building) s ,AUNCHING 0ROACTIVE 0OLICY !GENDAS FOR 2ACIAL %QUITY “Back Lash Blues” Performed by Muse 360 Inc (Hopkins, 3rd Floor—West Building) s 7HERE IS THE #OLOR IN /CCUPY 2ACE #LASS AND 'ENDER IN THE 5:30pm – SURPRISE CLOSING PERFORMANCE Occupy Movement (Paca, 3rd Floor—West Building) You won’t want to miss! s $ISMANTLING THE 3CHOOL TO 0RISON 0IPELINE (Marshall, 3rd Floor—West Building) s #ARING !CROSS 'ENERATIONS /RGANIZING !CROSS ,INES OF 2ACE Join us on Twitter: @colorlines #LASS 'ENERATION !BILITY ,ANGUAGE  #OMMUNICATIONS @racialjustice #facingrace (Tubman A, 3rd Floor—West Building) And on Facebook: facebook.com/arc.org and facebook.com/colorlines

DEFINE JUSTICE. MAKE CHANGE. 7 KEYNOTE

Junot Díaz was born and raised in Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic. His work has appeared in: The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Time Out, Glimmer Train, Story, African Voices, Best American Fiction `96 (ed. John Edgar Wideman); Best American Fiction `97 (ed. Annie Proulx); Best American Fiction `99 (ed. Amy Tan); Best American Fiction `00 (ed. E.L. Doctorow) and The O. Henry Prize Stories anthology, 2009; Díaz was included in the ‘20 Writers for the 21st Century’ issue of The New Yorker (June ‘99). He received a Pushcart Prize XXII, for his story “Invierno” which was later also selected for The Pushcart Book of Short Stories, a compilation of the BEST lCTION FROM THE lRST  YEARS OF THE 0USHCART 0RIZE

Díaz edited The Beacon Best of 2001: Great Writing by Women and Men of All Colors and Cultures. He co-wrote the screenplay for Washington Heights directed by Alfredo de Villa. He is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Díaz’s story collection, Drown was published by Riverhead in `96 (pbk, July `97), it IS IN ITS RD PRINTING AND WAS SOLD IN  COUNTRIES 4HE STORY COLLECTION WAS ALSO published in Spanish in the US, by Vintage Español, under the title Negocios.)

His first novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (September 2007, Riverhead) won the Pulitzer Prize and remained on the New York Times and independent Junot Díaz bookstore bestseller lists for two years – in hardback and paperback. It has been Friday November 16 SOLD IN  LANGUAGES WHERE IT HIT BESTSELLER LISTS AROUND THE WORLD

  PM Díaz’s next story collection, This Is How You Lose Her was published by Riverhead, Key Ballroom September 11th 2012, and was a New York Times bestseller in the first week of publication. He was the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation ‘Genius’ Grant in 2012.

PLENARIES

Welcome & Opening Plenary NOW WHAT? DEBRIEFING THE ELECTION RACE AND GENDER IN THE 21ST CENTURY Closing Plenary AND TALKING GOVERNANCE 3ATURDAY .OVEMBER   AM CULTURE TRUMPS POLITICS: OR DOES IT? Friday November 16 , 9:00-11am Key Ballroom  P Key Ballroom Key Ballroom Things are changing fast as new ideas, This session features political luminaries technology and community assertions When political times get hard, creative reflecting on lessons from the 2012 change the landscape of racial and people turn to influencing the way race election and the agenda we need to gender identities. In this plenary, is lived instead of the way it is legislated. set for policymakers in the coming leading thinkers and activists will share This session will focus on the relationship years. Includes the racial dimensions predictions for these changes and between cultural and political change, of electoral turnout, voting rights, the thoughts on their strategic implications. from the perspective of the nation’s economy, immigration and more. leading artists. Moderator: Maya Wiley, Center for Social Moderator: Carolina Gonzalez, Futuro Inclusion. Panelists: Jessica Gonzalez- Moderator: Rinku Sen, Applied Research Media Group. Panelists: Kai Wright, Rojas, National Latina Institute for Center. Paneliests: Jose Antonio Vargas, Colorlines.com; Sally Kohn, Salon, Fox Reproductive Health, Michael Omi, Define American; Negin Farsad, News; Jacqueline Pata, National Congress University of California, Berkeley, Janet Comedian; Jeff Chang, Writer on American Indians (NCAI); Judith Mock, Writer; Christian Sundquist, Lolis Eric Elie, HBO Treme Browne Dianis, The Advancement Project; Albany Law School Jesus Gonzalez, Make the Road New York

8 FACING RACE: A National Conference BREAKOUT SESSIONS

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16 CHANGING THE CONVERSATION ON RACE Organizing &Skillbuilding Track BREAKOUT SESSION 1 | 11:15-12:45P With Rinku Sen, Applied Research Center; Tim Wise, Writer; Maya Wiley, Center for Social RACE & CLASS: WHY AN INTERSECTIONAL Inclusion; Milly Hawk Daniel, PolicyLink APPROACH IS CRITICAL IN UNDOING Arts, Culture & Media Track Key Ballroom10, 2nd Floor West Building STRUCTURAL RACISM With Nitika Raj, Resource Generation; Mijo H Racial justice groups have to fight Lee, Social Justice Fund NW CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW? HOW ACTIVISTS the dominant narratives about race Tilghman, 3rd Floor, West Building AND ARTISTS ARE REBUILDING THE MEDIA that currently exist in society and the With Jamilah King, Applied Research Center and Colorlines.com; Chancellar Williams, media. These groups have moved beyond H Although intersectional approaches Free Press; amalia deloney, Center for Media defining racism as individual, overt, and to movement work are increasingly Justice; Adriel Luis, iLL-Literacy; Josh Begley intentional to help people understand popular, we often overlook classism Tubman A, 3rd Floor West Building how it works structurally and to hold while working on structural racism. decision makers accountable. This Social Justice Fund NW and Resource H The Internet was once seen as a workshop will offer an overview of diverse Generation have successfully collaborated revolutionary platform that would help approaches to framing racial problems on a multiracial cross-class giving circle even the playing field for artists of color. and communicating effectively, both for model, developing strategies and tools to It has fundamentally transformed how the short and the long term. integrate a class lens into racial justice people communicate to one another - and work. Participants will leave this workshop the world. But in an age when Facebook with a foundational analysis of the is king and even Social Security offices RACE FLICKS FILM FESTIVAL intersection of race and class, tools and require applicants to apply online, not Brent, 3rd Floor West Building materials for bringing an intersectional everything on the Internet is created race and class lens into existing racial H equally. People of color generally Race Flicks, the Facing Race Film justice work, and critical questions to pay more for fewer services and are Festival, brings you a diverse array of bring back to their own organizations. sometimes left on the sidelines of some new racial justice films. From shorts of today’s biggest tech innovations. This created by local Baltimore youth, to session will focus on how people of color feature-length films about incarceration, ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND RACIAL JUSTICE are using public policy and art to push immigration and Latina transgender With Chris Rabb, Temple University’s forward a new media framework. What are culture in LA, these films illustrate the )NNOVATION  %NTREPRENEURSHIP )NSTITUTE !NDY the promises—and the pitfalls —of today’s complexities and controversies of how Shallal, Busboys and Poets, Jennifer Gordon do-it-yourself ethos? What organizing race, sexuality, and the state shape the Nembhard, John Jay College, CUNY strategies yield the most effective results? lives of people of color in the US. Middle Douglass, 3rd Floor, West Building of Nowhere will screen during this session. And how are communities responding? H This inventive workshop delves into innovation, business and social impact in the context of race and structural RACE AND MASCULINITY: PERILS, PRIDE AND THE ROOTS OF RACISM: SAY WHAT? inequality. Led by Chris Rabb, author, PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES OF PERCEPTION With Soyinka Rahim, Our Thing Performance teacher and social entrepreneur in With Dominique Appollon, Applied Research Company; Sheila K. Collins, InterPlay #ENTER "AYETÏ 2OSS 3MITH 1UESTION "RIDGE Pittsburgh residence at Temple University, this Black Males; Jack DeJesus, Forward Together; Calloway A/B, 2nd Floor, East Building fast-paced session will feature lively Alan Jenkins, The Opportunity Agenda; Salem discussion, self-organized break-outs, Acuña, Southerners on New Ground (SONG) H Got something to say about racism? engaging exercises, and a visually- Paca, 3rd Floor-West Building Tired of the talking head mode of oriented primer on the state of social communication? Help yourself and others entrepreneurship through the lens of H This interactive workshop explores mine their personal stories to craft their racial justice. the perspectives and work of those who messages about race and social justice are taking innovative approaches to in this fun, action-oriented workshop. We the challenges created when race and will use the games and interactive tools masculinity meet in our society. Speakers of InterPlay, which are designed to put us will reflect on a wide range of issues and in touch with “body wisdom,” the things platforms, including how masculinity and we know inside even if we haven’t written race are represented in entertainment or spoken them yet. InterPlay is a global and journalism, and how community social movement connecting people, dialogues on these issues are influencing noble purposes, communities, and lives. (CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE) institutions.

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INNOVATIONS IN ORGANIZING IN awareness of systemic inequality. Learn about The Advancement Project; Brentin Mock, COMMUNITIES OF COLOR the different types of racism—internalized, Colorlines.com; Aura Bogado, Colorlines.com; With Francis Calpotura, Transnational Institute interpersonal, institutional and structural— Arisha Hatch, Campaign Director on Voter Engagement, Color of Change for Grassroots Research and Action (TIGRA); and how they operate simultaneously in Kohl Gill, LaborVoices, Ana Perez, Presente.org; Carroll A, 3rd Floor, West Building everyday situations. Explore ways to address Ana Garcia-Ashley, Gamaliel the system, rather than the symptoms of Tubman B, 3rd Floor, West Building H This year the Tea Party put the inequality, with strategies that emphasize right to vote on their list of things to H The impact of new technology and equity, inclusion and unity. abolish. Voter ID laws, restricting voter social media has forced a re-calibration registration, and harassment at the polls of traditional organizing practice. In what are all part of their strategy. This session ways do these enhance or supplant the Research & Policy Track will help you understand where the key commitments of traditional organizing attacks are coming from and what we can to constituency building, collective action, THE COLORLINE AND CAMPUS ADMISSIONS: do about it over the short and long term. and leadership development? In what THE PAST, PRESENT AND UNCERTAIN FUTURE ways do organizing groups have to adjust OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION their tactics and strategies in order to With Victor Goode, Associate Professor of NO JUSTICE, NO PEAS: GOOD FOOD, GOOD JOBS more fully realize the potential that these Law, City University School of Law; Wade With Diana Robinson, Food Chain Workers Henderson, CEO The Leadership Conference Alliance; Suguet Lopez, Líderes Campesinas; innovations bring? This workshop will on Civil and Human Rights tackle these questions with experienced Navina Khanna, Live Real/Movement Marshall, 3rd Floor, West Building Strategy Center; Saru Jayaraman, Restaurant “offline” and “online” organizers working Opportunities Centers United H This fall the US Supreme Court will in communities of color. Peale C, 1st Floor, East Building hear the case of Fisher v. University of Texas. This case may be the case H A growing movement is concerned FROM BROOKLYN TO BALTIMORE: where the court declares that affirmative about access to sustainable food as well as THE FIGHT FOR FAIR DEVELOPMENT action for students of color is an democratic control over food production. With Luis Larin of United Workers; unconstitutional discrimination against Globally, this is the food sovereignty Maisha Morales and Lucas Shapiro, Families white students. This workshop will briefly movement; here in the US, it is known United for Racial and Economic Equality; review the history of affirmative action Michael Premo and Rachel Falcone, as food justice. Innovative organizers Housing is a Human Right and chronicle the milestones that have are bridging the worlds of good food Blake, 2nd Floor, East Building brought us to this current conflict. It will and workers’ rights to create innovative discuss the issues in the Fisher case and solutions that will both transform our food H In the name of economic progress, low- analyze the possible outcomes and their system and provide sustainable livelihoods income communities of color —including implications for the future educational for food chain workers. workers, residents and small business opportunities for people of color. owners—often pay for “urban revitalization” with the loss of their livelihoods, their SHATTERED FAMILIES: RACIAL JUSTICE AND homes and the affordability of their FACING RACE ON XENOPHOBIC HATE CRIMES PROSPECTS FOR SYSTEMIC CHANGE neighborhoods. In a highly unequal racial With Deepa Iyer, Executive Director, South With Seth Freed Wessler, Applied Research and economic terrain, how can we reclaim Asian Americans Leading Together; Linda Center; Yvonne Gilgrist, Black Administrators development that is fair and accountable Sarsour, National Network for Arab American in Child Welfare; Jovanna Frieson, Child Communities; Rajdeep Singh, Sikh Coalition Welfare Organizing Project; Center on Children for all people? Grassroots organizers from Carroll B, 3rd Floor, West Building and Families; Terry Cross, National Indian Baltimore and New York share stories, Child Welfare Association lessons and winnable strategies from H Over the past decade, hate crimes Poe A/B, 2nd Floor-East Building innovative movements, being led largely have been on the rise, affecting people by the poor and people of color, who are OF COLOR ,'"4)1 COMMUNITIES AND H The child welfare system is tasked taking on gentrification, displacement and immigrants. What explains this rise in with protecting children from harm, yet poverty wages. hate violence? What are the various it targets families of color in unfair ways. ways in which community members are Hundreds of thousands of children in impacted by this climate? And, what foster care are there because the child STRUCTURAL RACISM 101: CRITICAL solutions need to be put into place? Join welfare system feeds off of the effects CONCEPTS FOR GETTING TO RACIAL JUSTICE this panel for a forward-looking discussion of poverty and of structural racism With Terry Keleher, Applied Research Center; of policies and practices that prevent hate embedded in other places like criminal Nayantara Sen, Applied Research Center; crimes and address their effects. justice and immigration, as well as the Key Ballroom 11, 2nd Floor, West Building inequity embedded in tribal relationships H A major challenge of racial justice to the U.S. government. This panel advocates is to move the popular DEFENDING DEMOCRACY: HOW TO FIGHT OFF will explore child welfare practices in understanding of racism from the narrow VOTER ID, PURGES AND OTHER ATTACKS communities of color, solutions for notion of personal prejudice to a broader With Richard Kim, The Nation; Katherine more equitable policy and strategies for Culliton Gonzalez, Voter Protection Project, protecting families.

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16 H Join multimedia artist Daniel Papers, No Fear, Undocubus Rider BREAKOUT SESSION 2 | 3:30-5:00P #ALLAHAN AS HE PRESENTS THE -ASS1 A Peale C, 1st Floor East Building ritual art-form that uses the face as a H Members of the Freedom Riders canvas to express one’s inner state of group, civil rights activists who Arts, Culture & Media Track being. While a mask is something used challenged segregation in the US to disguise, distort and/or conceal one’s ADDRESSING RACISM USING THEATER OF THE South in 1961, will join in discussion identity, or to assume the identity of OPPRESSED with DREAMers, activists working to ANOTHER THE PURPOSE OF A -ASS1 IS NOT TO With Nayantara Sen, Applied Research Center; pass the federal DREAM Act about conceal or assume, but reveal one’s own S. Leigh Thompson, The Forum Project history and organizing for a progressive unique identity. Come see and hear how Key Ballroom 12, 2nd Floor West Building future. Session participants will view a this incredible art-form came to be and partial screening of the Stanley Nelson H Through Theatre of the Oppressed how it challenges each and every one of film Freedom Riders and engage in (TO) games and activities, participants us to see ourselves and our world in a conversation with panelists. The session will sharpen their skills in recognizing different way. structural racism, and learn ways to is multi-ethnic, crosses generations, and break thought patterns that perpetuate links activist movements. oppression. This highly interactive TALKING ABOUT RACE: RACIAL JUSTICE workshop is fun, fast-paced and playful, THROUGH FILM, COLLABORATION AND INTERNALIZING RACIAL EQUITY and has a participatory approach that COMMUNITY CONVERSATION enables activists, educators, and racial With Robert Gray, Innovation in Learning INSTITUTIONALLY With Maggie Potapchuk, MP Associates; justice advocates to grow their toolbox for Center, University of Southern Alabama; Gita Gultanti-Partee, Open Source Leadership affecting social change. Theatre of the Joél Lewis, University of South Alabama; Lisa Abbott, World Trust Education Strategies, Inc. Oppressed facilitates a centrally shared Carroll B, 3rd Floor, West Building experience of dialogue, critique and Blake, 2nd Floor, East Building self-reflective learning around the nature H How can you use videos to foster H Countless social change agents start of oppression. Games and conversations public conversation and deeper and lead nonprofit organizations with the will revolve around issues of structural awareness of race issues? Can we move intention of making the world more just inequities, intersectionality and allyship, mainstream and politically diverse and equitable. But then they discover intentionality and impact, and systems audiences? We’ll look at different that it is hard to change a system, analysis on levels of racism. No previous models for using the power of stories, steeped in white culture and supremacy, TO experience necessary. interviews and images to engage different while trying to succeed in it at the same communities in understanding the time. In this highly participatory session, complexities of racism. participants will construct visions for FROM THE TRENCHES: STORIES ON RACE, nonprofit organizations that embody and DATING AND LOVE advance racial equity. We’ll assess and With Samhita Mukhopadhyay, Feministing. RACE FLICKS FILM FESTIVAL analyze current institutional policies, com; Deanna Zandt, Author and Technologist; Brent, 3rd Floor West Building practices, and cultural norms, and Jamia Wilson, Women’s Media Center; Malkia identify the ways that we perpetuate or Cyril, Center for Media Democracy H Race Flicks, the Facing Race Film interrupt racism and white privilege in Paca, 3rd Floor-West Building Festival, brings you a diverse array of and through our nonprofit organizations. H We talk about the way race impacts new racial justice films. From shorts We’ll close the session with a dialogue to almost every part of our life, but one created by local Baltimore youth, to uncover catalyzing strategies and actions place where it is always scary to talk feature-length films about incarceration, that will pave the road to our desired about race is in our intimate personal immigration and Latina transgender transformation. lives. It’s one thing to recognize how race culture in LA, these films illustrate the plays out in politics, culture and policy, complexities and controversies of how but another in who we date, love and race, sexuality, and the state shape the ORGANIZING RACIAL JUSTICE PHILANTHROPY sometimes marry. Join us, as we share lives of people of color in the US. With Lori Villarosa, Philanthropic Initiative FOR 2ACIAL %QUITY 02%  $ENNIS 1UIRIN 2ACE a series of stories from a variety of folks Harvest of Empire will screen during this session. and Equity Collaborative, Proteus Fund; Lisa that are funny, scary, sad and awesome Ranghelli, National Committee for Responsive about the intersection of love and race. Philanthropy (NCRP); Susan Batten, Association Organizing &Skillbuilding Track of Black Foundation Executives (ABFE) Carroll A, 3rd Floor, West Building WE WEAR THE MASSQ: ONE ARTIST’S DIS- DREAMers AND FREEDOM RIDERS: RACIAL COVERY OF FACE, RACE AND RITUAL IN A JUSTICE ACROSS GENERATIONSS H Four intermediaries working to DIGITAL AGE With Sam Fulwood, Center for American move funders will share current tools With Daniel Callahan, Multimedia Artist; Progress; Lenora Tait-Magubane, Freedom and efforts to strengthen racial justice Melinda Weekes, Applied Research Center Rider; Moses Newson, Freedom Rider; Loan grantmaking. This interactive session will 4RAN 5NITED  THE $REAM . 3OL )RERI 5NZUETA Key Ballroom 10, 2nd Floor, West Building also engage nonprofits in strategizing Carrasco, Immigrant Youth Justice League, No about their role in organizing racial

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justice philanthropy. How can the racial RAISING FUNDS FOR RACIAL JUSTICE education, housing, and transportation – justice field and other social justice With Aimee Walker, Applied Research Center; promotes health in these communities. activists push or support change, and Marjorie Fine; Saru Jayaraman, Restaurant This workshop will highlight how how can we all be more strategic about Opportunities Centers United advocates can use HIA in campaigns by the levers of power in an arena that has Tubman B, 3rd Floor- West Building introducing HIA, describing two case far more privilege than accountability? H The workshop will offer an overview studies, and conducting an exercise to of fundraising for social justice causes, brainstorm ideas for HIAs. particularly racial justice. We will cover RACIAL PROFILING: EVERY WHICH the basics of grassroots fundraising WAY BUT LOOSE among individuals, as well as grant ENERGY DEMOCRACY FOR ALL With Kung Li; Sian Miranda Singh ÓFaoláin, research and writing. With Antony Giancatarino, Center for Rights Working Group; Linda Sarsour, National Social Inclusion; Emily Kirsch, Solar for Network for Arab American Communities; Jose Universal Need Cube (SfunCube); Shannon Lopez, Make the Road Bade, Alliance to Develop Power; Andrew Douglass, 3rd Floor, West Building Research & Policy Track Curley, Commission on Navajo Government Development, Navajo Nation H This interactive workshop considers SYSTEMS CHANGE: INSIDE AND OUTSIDE Key Ballroom 11, 2nd Floor, West Building racial profiling within the criminal STRATEGIES justice, immigration enforcement, and With Glenn Harris, City of Seattle Race H The green economy hasn’t delivered national security systems. Race has and Social Justice Initiative; Nicole Porter, on its promise, so far, to recreate a played a powerful, yet often hidden, role Sentencing Project; Nashira Baril, Boston manufacturing base to employ workers in the expansion of each of these three Public Health Commission of color. And, the economic downturn is systems, and in justifying their fusion Hopkins, 3rd Floor-West Building unrelenting: millions of people of color are still out of work and the wealth gap with one another. In addition to working H Equity-driven change strategies can is increasing. Communities across the collectively to develop a framework and be initiated from inside the public sector, nation are generating solutions to the analysis in this workshop, we will identify from the outside, or both. Learn about economic crises by creating community- opportunities for multiracial organizing how the City of Seattle’s Race and Social owned and operated renewable energy and coalition-building. Justice Initiative has sparked community solutions. Learn from community leaders collaboration to address institutional from the Navajo Nation to Baltimore racism in the public school system, how about how this community-scale solution CONSUMER BASED STRATEGIES FOR the Sentencing Project is working several may be the answer, to be replicated. ADVANCING RACIAL JUSTICE fronts in the policy arena to eliminate With Francis Calpotura, Transnational Institute racial disparities in the criminal justice for Grassroots Research and Action (TIGRA); system and how the Boston Public Lisa Castellanos, Transnational Institute for NATIONAL STUDENT BILL OF RIGHTS Health Commission is using a health and Grassroots Research and Action (TIGRA); With Magda Phillips, Baltimore Algebra Jamal Watkins, Center for Social Inclusion; race equity framework to address racial Project; Niqua Douglass, Project South Tracy Van Slyke, New Bottom Line disparities in public health. Tilghman, 3rd Floor, West Building Calloway A/B, 2nd Floor-East Building

H The use of consumer boycotts and H We will engage participants in a ADVANCING HEALTH EQUITY USING HEALTH documented (video) dialogue about the providing alternatives (“buy-cotts”) are IMPACT ASSESSMENT, COMMUNITY signature strategies of racial justice state of youth in the United States in ORGANIZING AND ADVOCACY 2012, discussing what we think the projects of the past. This workshop With Lili Farhang, Human Impact Partners; will highlight current campaigns and Alexi Nunn-Freeman, Advancement Project; US will look like in five years with these initiatives that employ these strategies in Ruth Lindberg, National Center for rights being provided to our youth. Video advancing racial justice in the present. Healthy Housing documentation of participants from How are these current-day examples Tubman A, 3rd Floor, West Building across the US would accompany the similar to and/or improve upon the clips that we have already obtained from H Today’s political climate poses strategies of the past? The workshop will youth in our cities to build on to our significant threats to health and to tease out lessons from these initiatives campaign for national recognition of the the social, economic and political and how they can be instructive in bill of rights. This workshop will generate resources necessary for health and crafting racial justice strategies in the a living work as we continue to gain local, well-being, especially for lower income age of globalization. state, and national support. communities and communities of color. In this context, the practice of Health Impact Assessment (HIA) has taken off nationally as a research and community engagement tool to ensure that decision-making related to a wide range of factors—including employment,

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17 to keep you on track and measure CROSS RACIAL ALLIANCE BUILDING FOR BREAKOUT SESSION 3 | 11:00-12:30P your success. We’ll assume a basic SOCIAL JUSTICE AND IMMIGRANT RIGHTS understanding of tools like Facebook With Opal Tometi, Black Alliance for Just and Twitter, and will focus on how to Immigration (BAJI); Gustavo Andrade, Community Organizing Director, CASA de Arts, Culture & Media Track incorporate new tools into participants’ Maryland; Abraham Paulos, Families for work. This crash course will prove that LIKE RACISM, BUT FUNNIER: SOCIAL CHANGE Freedom; Erika Almiron, Juntos you don’t need a full-on communications THROUGH INTERNET JOKES Tubman B, 3rd Flood, West Building With Channing Kennedy, Applied Research staff to start taking advantage of these Center; Samhita Mukhopadhyay, Feministing. social media tools today. H Leading advocates and organizers com; W. Kamau Bell, Comedian; Negin will share about building cross-racial Farsad, Comedian and ethnic alliances for immigrant rights Key Ballroom 10, 2nd Floor, West Building TELL YOUR STORY, MOVE YOUR CAMPAIGN and racial justice fights in communities With Julianne Hing, Colorlines.com, across the country. We’ll be speaking H Jokes are the original “viral” medium, Babatunde Salaam, New Lens; Neomara about key areas and best practices we’ve changing minds and sneaking in new Serges, Illinois Safe School Alliance; found in our collaborative work amongst Doyle Canning, smartMeme ideas since the invention of language. African American, Latino, Chinese, Afro- Douglass, 3rd Floor, West Building But our era’s jokes are often at the Diasporic, and Caribbean communities expense of people of color and other H Stories, well-crafted and honestly as well as offering examples of our work. disenfranchised folks — and they’re told, have the ability to move people The workshop will be interactive and we being made by people who should know to action. But they can be tricky for will offer take-home tools and materials better. How do we reclaim comedy progressives, who often get hung up on for people who are interested in doing from the status quo? In this no-holds- facts and complicated dynamics, and the work. barred workshop, four of your favorite as a result, it can be harder to share social justice joke scientists lay out solutions and reach possible allies. case studies and strategies for making Learn strategies from organizers who BUILDING A 21ST CENTURY people laugh (and think), for putting have developed a strong narrative as a LABOR MOVEMENT dehumanizing comedy on blast, and core component to their campaigns, With Dorian Warren, Columbia University; for turning the inevitable backlash into Ai-jen Poo, National Domestic Workers and are using new media strategies positive change. United; Kim Fellner, Working America; Saket to communicate with more people Soni, New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial because of it. Justice; James Thindwa, American Federation of Teachers. RACE FLICKS FILM FESTIVAL Key Ballroom 12, 2nd Floor, West Building Brent, 3rd Floor West Building Organizing &Skillbuilding Track H This panel will take a wide look at H Race Flicks, the Facing Race Film BETTER TOGETHER: BRIDGING LGBTQ RIGHTS what is required to build real and lasting Festival, brings you a diverse array of & RACIAL JUSTICE worker power in this country. Panelists new racial justice films. From shorts With Nayantara Sen, Applied Research will address the ways in which labor created by local Baltimore youth, to Center; Aisha Moodie Mills, Center for organizing is growing and declining, feature-length films about incarceration, American Progress; Paulina Helm-Hernandez, discuss what we’ve learned from the last immigration and Latina transgender in Southerners on New Ground; Robert Espinoza, decade of work by community worker LA, these films illustrate the complexities Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders centers and labor unions, and consider (SAGE); CJ Frosch, Charm City Kitty Club and controversies of how race, sexuality, the effect of race and gender lenses on and the state shape the lives of people Key Ballroom11, 2nd Floor, West Building organizing strategy. of color in the US. Youth produced shorts by H This workshop builds off ARC’s Baltimore based group, New Lens, will screen Better Together project, and looks at the during this session. strategic impetus for bridge-building and SURJ: STRATEGIES FOR ENGAGING WHITE CROSS SECTORAL INNOVATION BETWEEN ,'"41 PEOPLE IN RACIAL JUSTICE and people of color communities. We will With Dara Silverman, SURJ: Showing Up for Racial Justice; Carla Wallace, Louisville SURJ, USING SOCIAL MEDIA TO CONNECT discuss the imperatives for intersectional COMMUNITIES AND MAKE AN IMPACT— Fairness Campaign; Dottye Burt-Markowitz, lenses in research, advocacy, policy, White Anti-Racism Network, Baltimore Racial AND MEASURE IT organizing and activism. At the heart Justice Action Network 7ITH $EANNA :ANDT 4ECHNOLOGIST  !UTHOR of this workshop is the question – what Carroll B, 3rd Floor West Building Carroll A, 3rd Floor, West Building does true unity, intersectionality and H H This introductory workshop will equity look like? Panelists will be lifting The economic recession and run the gamut from the culture and up stories and case studies from their Obama’s presidency have triggered a politics of social media, to strategies own work, and sharing lessons and best largely white racist backlash by the Tea necessary for starting a social media PRACTICES FOR THE ,'"41 AND RACIAL Party, anti-immigrant organizations and campaign. There will be a heavy focus on justice movements. conservative political commentators. understanding the metrics and analytics More white people are needed to show

DEFINE JUSTICE. MAKE CHANGE. 13 BREAKOUT SESSIONS (continued) up and speak out against racism. DISMANTLING THE SCHOOL introducing an equity-focused framework Presenters will share experiences for TO PRISON PIPELINE into the policy-making arena. recruiting and engaging white people With Scott Roberts, The Advancement Project; in racial justice efforts and working in Laura Carolina Leumus, Labor/Community Strategy Center; Barbara Anne Flory, Labor/ alliance with organizations of color. WHERE IS THE COLOR IN OCCUPY? Community Strategy Center; Ralikh Hayes, Baltimore Algebra Project RACE, CLASS AND GENDER IN THE Marshall 3rd Floor, West Building OCCUPY MOVEMENT WOLVES IN SHEEPS’ CLOTHING: SEXUAL With Yvonne Yen Liu, Applied Research HEALTH AS WEDGE ISSUES IN COMMUNITIES H This workshop is intended to assist Center; Christine Schweidler, Data Center; Carmen Pittman, Occupy Atlanta; Kate Khatib, OF COLOR AND AMONG YOUNG PEOPLE participants in addressing educational AKPress; Maria Poblet, Causa Justa/Just Cause; With Aimee Thorne Thomsen, Advocates for pushout and the criminalization of K-12 Janee Woods Weber, Everyday Democracy Youth; Pamela Merritt; Miriam Yeung, National students in their respective communities. Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum Paca, 3rd Floor, West Building We will begin with a brief overview of Tilghman, 3rd Floor, West Building the relevant issues, their causes, and H When a Canadian magazine, H The Far Right has long used their impact followed by case studies Adbusters, issued the call last summer to reproductive health and rights issues of resistance, involving an interactive Occupy Wall Street, no one could predict as wedges targeting communities of discussion around actual examples of the response that would follow. Many color and young people. Cloaked in the local and state organizing campaigns, have pointed to the lack of race-explicit language of feminism, civil rights and and the lessons learned from them. analysis by the Occupy movement human rights, these attacks intend to Finally, participants will work in small and the domination of white middle weaken support among people of color groups to develop policy agendas and class participation. Organizers of color for progressive policies. Panelists will strategies for addressing the issue in involved with Occupy discuss how race is share examples of how this strategy is their communities. manifested in their city and how Occupy playing out across the country, and what can lead with a race-explicit analysis. activists are doing to fight back. FROM TROY DAVIS TO MUMIA: A MULTIRACIAL FIGHT TO END THE DEATH PENALTY NEW RULES: ORGANIZING TO END THE With Liliana Segura, The Nation; Lawrence PUSH-OUT CRISIS WITH SOLUTIONS Research & Policy Track Hayes; Barbara Lewis; Sandra Jones, Rowan NOT SUSPENSIONS University; Call in from Mumia Abu-Jamal With Tina Dove, National Opportunity to Learn CARING ACROSS GENERATIONS: ORGANIZING Calloway A/B, 2nd Floor, East Building Campaign; Maisie Chin, CADRE ACROSS LINES OF RACE, CLASS, GENERATION, Blake, 2nd Floor, East Building ABILITY, LANGUAGE AND COMMUNITIES H As the execution of Troy Davis With Sarita Gupta, Jobs With Justice; Jessica showed, racism remains a central H A report from The Civil Rights Brill Ortiz, Direct Care Alliance; Trishala Deb, factor in deciding who lives and who Project at UCLA highlights the shocking Caring Across Generations dies in our criminal justice system. Yet disparities in out-of-school suspensions Tubman, A 3rd Floor, West Building the abolitionist movement is largely for students of color and students with H Caring Across Generations is a white. How can such activism involve special needs. An advocacy initiative national campaign that builds across the communities most affected by the called Solutions Not Suspensions brings race, generation, class and ability to death penalty? together students, educators, parents, bring together workers, seniors, people and community members in calling with disabilities and communities for a moratorium on out-of-school around a federal Job Creation and LAUNCHING PROACTIVE POLICY suspensions and advocating for policies Affordable Care agenda. In our first AGENDAS FOR RACIAL EQUITY that support evidence-based approaches year as a campaign we’ve introduced With Jermaine Toney, Applied Research to school discipline and restorative Center; Vina Kay, Organizing Apprenticeship justice practices. This workshop will resolutions into the House and Senate, Program; Ben Chin, Maine People’s Alliance; ENGAGED   SENIOR VOTERS AND Alhelí Herrera, Enlace Chicago discuss local and national organizing BUILT A GRASSROOTS ADVOCACY BASE IN  Hopkins, 3rd Floor, West Building efforts and how to produce similar states across the country with over 200 efforts where you live. participating organizations. Join us to H How do we move from reacting to hear lessons and challenges from our racial disparities to proactively addressing work to build a movement across sectors, racial equity? In this workshop, the issues, silos and demographics. Organizing Apprenticeship Project (OAP) in Minnesota, Enlace Chicago in Illinois and Maine People’s Alliance (MPA) will share their experience using legislative report cards, policy guides and proactive agendas that highlight racial equity issues. These organizations are using innovative tools and strategies for

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SATURDAY NOVEMBER 17 H So you want to share your work with H Record numbers of students of BREAKOUT SESSION 4 | 1:45-3:15P the world but aren’t sure where to start. color are headed to college, but is a Video and audio experts will discuss degree still worth it? College is getting Arts, Culture & Media Track their best practices, what tools they’re harder and harder to pay for, and young using and what platforms you should be people are graduating with dismal job ART & AGITATION: ON THE POWER OF considering. And don’t be intimidated; prospects and heavy loan debt. Even still, CULTURAL STRATEGY this workshop will cover resources that will record numbers of students of color are 7ITH &AVIANNA 2ODRIGUEZ #ULTURE3TRIKE  HELP YOU WHETHER YOU HAVE  OR  graduating from for-profit colleges. What Presente.org; Jose Antonio Vargas, Define does this change mean for communities American; Julio Salgado, CultureStrike; of color? Kalima Young, Maryland Institute College of Art; Melanie Cervantes, Akonadi Foundation STORYTELLING FOR RACIAL JUSTICE and Dignidad Rebelde With Rebekah Spicuglia, Applied Research Center; Rinku Sen, Applied Research Center; Key Ballroom 10, 2nd Floor, West Building WORDS MATTER: ORGANIZING AGAINST john powell, University of California, Berkley BULLY LANGUAGE H Culture is the realm of ideas, images Tubman A, 3rd Floor, West Building With Selene Medina, United for the Dream; and stories; it is where people make Drop the I-Word, Charlotte, NC; Jennifer H To advance our racial justice efforts, Pozner, Women in News and Media; Lamont sense of the world and where they we need to connect our audience find meaning and forge community. Carey, Tiffani Sykhammountry, Gay, Lesbian to the issues in a meaningful way and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) History shows that when the cultures that helps them to see things from Carroll A, 3rd Floor, West Building change, politics follow. While the another perspective. An essential media is laced with myths, stereotypes tool in reframing the conversation on H Throughout history, bullying language and misrepresentation of grassroots race is story-telling that pulls at the has been used to dehumanize, hurt and movements, cultural interventions can heart-strings, appeals to deeply held marginalize groups of people based on play a key role in pushing forward stories values, and leads audiences through ethnic background, gender, queer that help shift the public debate. A a day in someone else’s shoes. In this identity, disabilities and other reasons. growing movement of artists around workshop participants will develop vivid, Organizers will discuss their work to build the country are using cultural tools to compelling stories that include the key awareness about harmful language and fight economic inequality, corporations, elements of narrative, and learn how to the efforts to defeat it. Come learn about banks and anti-migrant hate. In this use stories to effect change. ARC’s Drop the I-Word campaign, the session, artist-activists, writers, cultural work young people at The Gay, Lesbian leaders and creative institutions will and Straight Education Network are discuss models for connecting artists to WHAT’S FAITH GOT TO DO WITH IT? TAKING ON TO COMBAT ',"41 BULLYING movements for social change. With Melinda Weekes, Applied Research Center as well as playground bullying and how Paca, 3rd Floor, West Building escalation to violence is prevented.

RACE FLICKS FILM FESTIVAL H In an interactive set of small and Brent, 3rd Floor West Building large group conversations, our inclusive GIRL/FUTURE: YOUTH ACTIVISM and diverse gathering will explore how AND ENDING GENDERED VIOLENCE H Race Flicks, the Facing Race Film faithful, spiritually committed change With Sangeetha Ravichandran, A Long Walk Festival, brings you a diverse array of agents navigate the quest for social Home; Larrinita Starks, Youth Leader, A Long new racial justice films. From shorts justice in a contemporary context. How Walk Home; Teana Gamill, Youth Leader, A created by local Baltimore youth, to does your commitment to a religious Long Walk Home feature-length films about incarceration, tradition or spiritual practice fuel and Marshall, 3rd Floor, West Building immigration and Latina transgender in inform your work for change? In what H While African American girls are LA, these films illustrate the complexities ways does it frustrate or complicate that heavily represented in the victim and controversies of how race, sexuality, work? In the quest for racial justice in quadrant of sexual assault, they are and the state shape the lives of people particular, how can the values, behaviors severely underrepresented in the solution of color in the US. Wildness will screen and practices we hold dear propel our quadrant. A Long Walk Home formed the during this session. communities and nation towards a Girl/Friends Leadership Institute, a year- racially just society? round program, in the under-resourced neighborhood of North Lawndale, NO BUDGET? NO PROBLEM! 2013’S NEW Chicago, in response to the epidemic of TOOLS FOR CREATING CONTENT AND TELLING Organizing &Skillbuilding Track sexual assault and to arrive at sustainable YOUR STORY With Jorge Rivas, Colorlines.com, Will Coley, solutions. Girl/Friends values those most WHAT’S THE FUTURE OF COLLEGE FOR Aquifer Media; Franchesca Ramsey, Actress, affected by a racialized gender-based Comedian, Blogger STUDENTS OF COLOR? violence and empowers them to be sexual With Julianne Hing, Colorlines.com; Tiffany Tilghman, 3rd Floor, West Building and dating violence prevention advocates Dena Loftin, United States Student Association, Tressie McMillan Cottom, Emory University and social justice leaders in their schools Tubman B, 3rd Floor, West Building and communities.

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HOW TO TALK ABOUT RACE and food deserts are but a few of the status affect the debate on reproductive IN THE CLASSROOM causes. Limited access to quality, rights and justice. Panelists will With Jaime-Jin Lewis, Border Crossers; affordable medical care exacerbates the highlight the impact of draconian J’nelle Chelune, Border Crossers problem. Fortunately, the affirmation policies and harmful rhetoric on women Carroll B, 3rd Floor, West Building of the Affordable Care Act by the of color, immigrant women and low- H What do you say when a child asks Supreme Court cemented a framework income women. you an unexpected question about race? for health care reform that empowers How might that question become a states to hold private health insurance teachable race moment? Border Crossers companies accountable to addressing CAMPAIGN WEAVING AND MOVEMENT BUILDING: CHALLENGING THE invites you to participate in an exciting racial and ethnic health disparities. This INCARCERATION NATION THROUGH workshop for educators seeking tools to workshop will examine policy options CREATIVE ACTION talk about race and equity with children. and organizing opportunities for the With Steven Renderos, Center for Media This is not a lecture or a presentation implementation of health reform that promotes health equity. Justice; Silky Shah, Detention Watch – we use adult learning techniques Network; Zachary Norris, Justice for Families; and participatory theater to collectively Cherrele Brown, Equal Justice USA; discuss race’s role in our lives, share Jessica Sandoval, Director of National Field personal experiences of critical moments, THE FACES OF DEVELOPMENT: Operations, Center for Youth Justice develop strategies for confidently and MOVING FROM RACIAL AND CLASS INEQUITY Douglass 3rd Floor, West Building With Marisela Gomez; Lea Keal, Sustainable effectively entering into conversations Environmental Enterprises, LLC; Lester H Across the country organizers and about race in the classroom and practice Spence, Johns Hopkins; Luis Larin, United advocates are leading campaigns what to say when tough situations arise. Workers; Reginald Fitzgerald, Community to challenge the impacts of mass Housing and Relocation Working Group detention/incarceration. From death Hopkins 3rd Floor, West Buidling penalty abolition to ending the high FROM COLORBLINDNESS TO EQUITY– cost of phone calls, and mandatory MINDEDNESS: BREAKING THROUGH BIAS H Since Urban Renewal in the mid detention—these organizations are TO BUILD RACIAL JUSTICE 1900’s there have been consistent using creative actions, first voice media With Nayantara Sen, Applied Research patterns of unfair redevelopment Center; Terry Keleher, Applied Research in our urban communities. This and innovative policy advocacy to bring Center panel brings together organizers and the media policy, immigrant rights and Key Ballroom 11, 2nd Floor, West Building researchers looking at the ways in criminal justice sectors together to fight which communities of color in cities the profiteering in mass incarceration. H Most racism is replicated routinely like Baltimore, Detroit, Oakland and and unconsciously, without racist intent. New Orleans are being affected by How can we become more aware redevelopment patterns that put profit CRIMINALIZING YOUTH IN BALTIMORE: RACE, of unconscious bias our political, before people, especially people of color. CLASS AND GENDER IN PUBLIC SPACE professional and personal work? How do With Dayvon Love, Leaders of a Beautiful By identifying and changing these unfair we move from critiquing institutional Struggle; Bakari Jones, Bois of Baltimore; practices, we can plan and carry out racism to creating institutional equity? Diamond Sampson, Inner Harbor Project more equitable development practices in Learn about some innovative steps and Blake, 2nd Floor, East Building the present and future. strategies for counteracting bias and H This workshop takes a deep dive preventing racism. into the racialized landscape of REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS AT THE development, gentrification, policing INTERSECTION OF CLASS, RACE and criminalization of young people in Research & Policy Track AND IMMIGRATION STATUS Baltimore. Baltimore is a city struggling With Akiba Solomon, Colorlines.com; Jessica with economic divestment and distress, MAKE THEM PAY: WAYS TO HOLD INSURANCE Gonzalez, National Latina Institute for rapid gentrification and problematic COMPANIES ACCOUNTABLE TO ADDRESSING Reproductive Health; Miriam Yeung, National zoning. How do these complicated RACIAL AND ETHNIC HEALTH DISPARITIES Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum, With Jill Reese, Alliance for a Just Society; Mariaelena Hincapié, National Immigration dynamics impact millennials of color Danisha Christian, Alliance for a Just Society; Law Center in Baltimore? Come hear stories and Ron Williams, Oregon Action Key Ballroom 12, 2nd Floor, West Building analysis from three local organizations Calloway A/B 2nd Floor, East Building that are mobilizing young people H In 2011 and 2012, the nation has around issues of race, gender, sexuality, H People of color in the United States seen a record number of restrictions on criminalization and public space. suffer notoriously poor health outcomes women’s reproductive health and rights- compared to their white counterparts. from efforts to restrict access to abortion These disparities arise from many to deny coverage of contraception. In things: poverty, unequal access to this workshop, participants will learn quality education, unsafe housing, and discuss the ways in which factors toxic hazards in the environment, such as class, race and immigration

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Race Flicks Brent, 3rd Floor, West Building

Race Flicks, the Facing Race Film MIDDLE OF NOWHERE Festival, brings you a diverse array Friday November 16, 11:15am-12:45pm of new racial justice films. From What happens when love takes you places you never thought you would go? When her husband, Derek, is sentenced to eight years in a California prison, Ruby drops shorts created by local Baltimore out of medical school to maintain her marriage and focus on ensuring Derek’s youth, to feature-length films survival in his violent new environment. Driven by love, loyalty, and hope, Ruby about incarceration, immigration, learns to sustain the shame, separation, guilt, and grief that a prison wife must bear. Her new life challenges her to the very core of her identity, and her turbulent and Latina transgender culture path propels her in new, often frightening directions of self-discovery. in LA, these films illustrate the complexities and controversies of HARVEST OF EMPIRE how race, sexuality, and the state Directed by Eduardo López and Peter Getzels shape the lives of people of color Friday November 16, 3:30-5:30pm in the US. Based on the groundbreaking book by award-winning journalist Juan González, Harvest of Empire takes an unflinching look at the role that U.S. economic and military interests played in triggering an unprecedented wave of migration that is transforming our nation’s cultural and economic landscape. From the wars for territorial expansion that gave the U.S. control of Puerto Rico, Cuba and more than half of Mexico, to the covert operations that imposed oppressive military regimes in the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Nicaragua and El Salvador, Harvest of Empire unveils a moving human story that is largely unknown to the great majority of citizens in the U.S.

YOUTH-PRODUCED SHORT FILMS Saturday November 17, 11:00am-12:30pm Hear young people’s stories and perspectives on social justice issues connected to race through youth-produced short films. Topics range from police/youth relations, public education, housing discrimination, the history of slavery and the civil rights movement to how young people overcome challenges they face in their daily lives. Films are produced by youth from Kids on the Hill, an after school art program, and New Lens, a youth-driven organization that uses art and media to create social change.

WILDNESS Directed by Wu Tsang Saturday November 17, 1:45-3:15pm

Rooted in the tropical underground of Los Angeles nightlife, WILDNESS is a documentary portrait of the Silver Platter, a historic bar in the MacArthur Park area that has been home for Latina queer and transgender immigrant communities SINCE  7ITH A MAGICAL REALIST mOURISH THE BAR ITSELF BECOMES A CHARACTER narrating what happens when a weekly party called Wildness explodes into creativity and conflict. What does “safe space” mean? Who needs it? And how does it differ among us? At the Silver Platter, the search for answers creates coalitions across generations.

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Welcome to Baltimore and Facing Race 2012 GALLERY ARC 30TH ANNIVERSARY AND FACING RACE KICK OFF CELEBRATION FACING RACE 2012 VISUAL ARTS 4HURSDAY .OVEMBER   n PM GALLERY AND SCREEN PRINTING Holiday Ballroom 1, 2nd Floor, East Building Key 9, 2nd FL, West Bldg Emcees: Melinda Weekes, Applied Research Center Guest Speaker: Benjamin Todd Jealous, NAACP President Fiber Artists for Hope - National group Featured Baltimore Artists: Moonroot Collective and Baltimore Mixtape Project Ashley Milburn - Baltimore, MD Oletha DeVane - Baltimore, MD Favianna Rodriguez - Oakland, CA ARTISTS AND PERFORMERS Pete Yankhe - Albuquerque, NM Baltimore Mixtape Project Felipe Baeza - New York, NY Nora Howell Ernesto Yerena - Texas Amy Dewan, Moonroot Collective Julio Salgado - Berkeley, CA Sine Hwang Jensen, Moonroot Collective Tessa Pompa - California Monna Wang, Moonroot Collective Meredith Stern - Providence, RI Sun Hashmi, Moonroot Collective Bashi Rose, Nommo Theatre Video Laurel Fish - California Falisha Massey, -53% !RT Melanie Cervantes - Dignidad Rebelde, Nia Baker, -53% !RT Oakland, CA Samora Moore, -53% !RT Jesus Barraza - Dignidad Rebelde, Tony Hawks, -53% !RT Oakland, CA S. Christmas-Rose, -53% !RT Fred Pincus - Baltimore, MD Amirah Sackett, “We’re Muslim Don’t Panic” Natalie Sokoloff - Baltimore, MD Khadijah Sifterllah-Griffin, “We’re Muslim, Don’t Panic” Rachel Falcone - New York, NY Iman Sifterllah-Griffin, “We’re Muslim, Don’t Panic” Michael Premo - New York, NY

Race in Yo Face MASQUERADE PARTY &RIDAY .OVEMBER  PM n AM Holiday Ballroom 1, 2nd Floor, East Building Host: Bobbito aka Kool Bob Love, Emcee: Deanna Zandt

Live Screen Printing by Dignidad Rebelde (Outside of Holiday Ballroom1, 2nd FL-East Bldg): Dignidad Rebelde is a graphic arts collaboration between Oakland-based artist-activists Jesus Barraza and Melanie Cervantes, who believe that art can be an empowering reflection of community struggles, dreams and visions. Following principles of Xicanisma and Zapatismo, they create work that translates people’s stories into art that can be put back into the hands of the communities who inspire it. In line with their purpose, Dignidad Rebelde will be screen printing during the party and giving away prints on Friday night. dignidadrebelde.com

DJ Bobbito Garcia a.k.a. Kool Bob Love is the co-founder of Bounce Magazine and the critically acclaimed author of Where’d You Get Those? NYC’s Sneaker Culture: 1960-1987 (Testify Books). He also recently co-directed the documentary, Doin It In The Park: Pickup Basketball, NYC (www.doinitinthepark.com) and has been touring the world spinning records at various events.

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LISA ABBOTT is Executive Director of World resistance in a struggle to create a new world. Dianis has litigated voting rights cases against Trust, an educational nonprofit rooted in Barraza has worked closely with numerous the States of Florida, Virginia and Maryland. love and justice. World Trust uses framing, community organizations to create prints that Through Advancement Project’s Voter Protection lLM  COMMUNITY DIALOGUE AS A CATALYST FOR visualize struggles for immigration rights, Program, she continues to eliminate barriers racial equity. World Trust’s latest film project housing, education, and international solidarity. to voting. A prominent media commentator, directed by Shakti Butler, Cracking the Codes Dianis makes regular appearances on (www.crackingthecodes.org) asks America to SUSAN BATTEN is the President of the MSNBC’s Hardball, on PoliticsNation with talk about the causes and consequences of Association of Black Foundation Executives. Rev. Al Sharpton, and on other major news systemic inequity. Prior to joining ABFE, she was a Senior outlets. Dianis is a graduate of Columbia Associate for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion with University School of Law and a recipient of the SALEM ACUÑA is a queer, feminist Latino the Annie E. Casey Foundation. She is a co- distinguished Skadden Fellowship. She joined currently residing in the city of Richmond, founder of the Race and Equity in Philanthropy Advancement Project at its inception in 1999, Virginia and the Virginia Field Organizer Group and has served on several councils on after serving as the Managing Attorney in the for Southerners on New Ground (SONG). issues of diversity in the field of philanthropy. Washington, D.C. office of the NAACP Legal Since working and loving with SONG, he has $EFENSE  %DUCATIONAL &UND )NC DEVELOPED AN ONGOING CRUSH FOR ,'"41 0/# JOSH BEGLEY is a web artist studying Interactive organizing/organizers in the South and feels Telecommunications at NYU. DOTTYE BURT-MARKOWITZ is a co-founder of closely connected to the legacy and resiliency Baltimore Racial Justice Action and has been an of the region. W. KAMAU BELL is one of the fastest rising socio- independent trainer and consultant on issues of political comics in the United States. He stars racial justice and organizational development for ERIKA ALMIRON is the Executive Director of in his own series on FX, Totally Biased with W. over 20 years. Juntos, a Latino immigrant led organization in Kamau Bell, executive produced by Chris Rock. Philadelphia fighting on issues of immigration A founding member of the comedy collective DANIEL CALLAHAN is a multimedia artist and reform, education, and worker rights. She was “Laughter Against the Machine,” Kamau is also designer living in Roxbury MA. In his artwork born in Philadelphia to immigrant parents from CO HOST OF 4HE &IELD .EGRO 'UIDE TO !RTS  #ULTURE Daniel merges various disciplines including Paraguay and has worked on issues ranging from podcast. Kamau is a board member of ARC. but not limited to painting, music, video, women’s health, gentrification, media justice, drawing, collage, animation, photography, and prison reform, poverty, and youth organizing. DIANE BELL-MCKOY is Pres./ CEO of Associated performance to create immersive experiences Black Charities, Maryland’s leading African- that blur the line between artist, subject and GUSTAVO ANDRADE is the Organizing Director for American philanthropic organization. Its viewer and exist outside of genre or period. CASA de Maryland, the state’s largest immigrant signature strategy, More in the Middle, RIGHTS ORGANIZATION WITH OVER   INDIVIDUAL expands opportunities/access for people of FRANCIS CALPOTURA is the Founder and Director dues-paying members. Mr. Andrade leads all color, counteracting the detrimental impact of the Transnational Institute for Grassroots aspects of CASA’s community organizing work, of structural racism on economic and health Research and Action (TIGRA), a movement including the campaign to win the Maryland outcomes. She lectures nationally about center for transnational organizing that promotes DREAM Act, workers’ rights and the permanent linkages of structural racism on economic and global justice through the economic power of struggle against the separation of families. other development of communities, workers, and immigrants. Francis has spent the past twenty- businesses of color. nine years as a community organizer, trainer, DOMINIQUE APOLLON serves as ARC Research administrator, and writer. Director in Oakland, CA. Born and raised in AURA BOGADO is the community journalism the Baltimore-area, Dom completed his PhD coordinator and blogger for Colorlines.com on DOYLE CANNING is a creative and strategist in political science at Stanford University in Voting Rights. Aura has worked as a national dedicated to using the power of narrative to  AND HAS BEEN AT !2# SINCE  -OST host and producer for the Pacifica Radio build movements for racial justice and an recently, he has authored ARC’s reports on the network, reporting on politics internationally ecological future. As co-director of smartMeme. racial attitudes of Millennials, and on what in Spanish and English. Her work has been org, she serves social justice alliances as a motivates young progressives toward action. published in The Nation, Mother Jones, trainer, direct action tactician and narrative Follow Dom at @arc_dom. Newsweek Argentina, AlterNet, among others. strategist. She is co-author of Re:Imagining Follow Aura at @zapallita. Change – How to Use Story-based Strategy to SHANNON BADE is the Director of Organizing at Win Campaigns, Build Movements, and Change the Alliance to Develop Power located in western JESSICA BRILL ORTIZ is the National Advocacy the World (PM Press, 2010). MA. Bade began her career in 1997 organizing Coordinator with Direct Care Alliance, the around welfare rights and food security in national advocacy voice of direct care workers. LAMONT CAREY, former bully, former prisoner Pittsburgh. In 2000, Bade joined National Previously, Jessica led consumer education and now an internationally known and award winning People’s Action organizing on job/ job training advocacy programs with the National Consumer spokenword artist, author, motivational speaker, issues and as the Training Director from 2002- 6OICE FOR 1UALITY ,ONG 4ERM #ARE *ESSICA HOLDS filmmaker and playwright. He uses his platform  3HE HAS EXPERIENCE ORGANIZING AROUND an MPA, an MA in political science from the to address social issues that affect the lives of affordable housing and the green economy. Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs young people. at Syracuse University. NASHIRA BARIL is Co-Director of the Center LISA CASTELLANOS HAS OVER  YEARS OF for Health Equity and Social Justice at the CHERRELL BROWN is Organizing Coordinator experience working in and with social justice Boston Public Health Commission and works with Equal Justice USA, a national, grassroots organizations on issues affecting immigrant to support BPHC’s vision to advance equity organization working to build a criminal justice families and youth, and other low-income through sustainable community, policy, and system that is fair, effective, and humane communities. Currently, Lisa works on TIGRA systems change. Nashira is a member of starting with repeal of the death penalty and economic and consumer justice organizing several local and national boards and is a increased services to families of homicide initiatives and programs. graduate of the University of Massachusetts victims. She is currently working to abolish the and Boston University. Death Penalty in Maryland. MELANIE CERVANTES is a Program Officer for Akonadi Foundation that supports powerful JESUS BARRAZA is an activist printmaker based JUDITH BROWNE-DIANIS is the Co-Director of social change movements to eliminate the in San Leandro, California. Using bold colors Advancement Project. She has an extensive structural racism that lies at the heart of social and high contrast images, his prints reflect background in civil rights litigation in the areas inequity in the U.S. Melanie also co-founded both his local and global community and their of voting, education, housing, employment. Dignidad Rebelde a graphic arts collaborative

24 FACING RACE: A National Conference dedicated to translating people’s stories into SHEILA K. COLLINS, PHD. directs InterPlay He is most passionate about cultivating a art that can be put back into the hands of the Pittsburgh, and the improvisational performance community of men that have a transformative communities who initially inspire it. troupe, Wing & a Prayer Pittsburgh Players. She analysis and concrete tools to dismantle is a “dancing social worker” using the arts for patriarchy and challenge male supremacy and JEFF CHANG is the Executive Director of the social change and community transformation. heterosexism. Institute for Diversity in the Arts at Stanford Books include, Stillpoint: The Dance of University and an organizer with CultureStrike. Selfcaring, Selfhealing, and Warrior Mother, the GARY DELGADO, PH.D., is the founder and former He is the author of Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: story of accompanying two of her children on Executive Director of the Applied Research A History of the Hip-Hop Generation and journeys through illness, treatment, and death. Center (ARC), the Center for Third World the forthcoming Who We Be: The Colorization Organizing (CTWO), and one of the original of America. TRESSIE MCMILLAN COTTOM is a PhD Student organizers of ACORN. His most recent work in Sociology at Emory University and a includes the initiation of a racial equity initiative DR. MARVIN L. ‘DOC’ CHEATHAM, SR. is a recently Researcher for the Racial Network for Ethnic for SEIU, a recent article on racial framing retired U.S. Federal Governnment employee after and Racial Inequality at Duke University. She entitled “Kill the Messengers” in the 2012 OVER  YEARS OF SERVICE 0AST LOCAL PRESIDENT OF researches education, labor, stratification and anthology Racial Formation in the Twenty First the local chapter of three of this nations’ most for-profit colleges. Century, and the production of short films on prominent civil rights organizations: Greater race and public policy. ary is a board member Baltimore Chapter of the National Action TERRY CROSS is an enrolled member of the of ARC. Network; Baltimore City Branch NAACP and Seneca Nation of Indians and is the developer, Baltimore Chapter of the Southern Christian founder, and executive director of the National AMALIA DELONEY coordinates the media policy Leadership Conference. Since 1971 has Indian Child Welfare Association. He is the initiatives of the Center for Media Justice and registered more voters in Maryland than anyone. author of the Heritage and Helping curriculum, the Media Action Grassroots Network (MAG- the Positive Indian Parenting curriculum, as .ET  3HE HAS OVER  YEARS OF EXPERIENCE J’NELLE CHELUNE is a performing artist, educator well as Cross-Cultural Skills in Indian Child in community and cultural organizing, with a and Program Director at Border Crossers. Her 7ELFARE 4ERRY HAS  YEARS OF EXPERIENCE IN specific interest in human rights, cultural rights WORK HAS TAKEN HER FROM 1UEENS TO 2WANDA child welfare. and traditional knowledge. At CMJ, amalia from North Carolina to Ecuador, a startling uses her extensive experience for field-building, way to see and understand race and its global KATHERINE CULLITON-GONZÁLEZ leads a highly- community-building, and policy advocacy. effects. Her experiences have offered a unique qualified team in litigation, policy, voter perspective, which she uses when facilitating education and community empowerment NIQUA DOUGLASS is working with the Education racial justice and education equity workshops strategies to protect fundamental voting rights. Justice for Atlanta research project and the with Border Crossers. A former Fulbright Scholar, she taught human National Student Bill of Rights to coordinate rights law in Chile, and authored a series of law a southeast agenda. As an aspiring hip hop BEN CHIN is the Political Director of Maine review articles on civil and human rights in the artist, student of black southern movements and People’s Alliance. He authored Maine’s first Americas. Atlanta history. Niqua has been a part of the Racial Justice Policy Guide. For six years, Project South movement building community for he has staffed the Maine Immigrant Rights ANDREW CURLEY, a member of the Navajo OVER  YEARS Coalition. In 2011, he led the field team that Nation (located in Arizona, New Mexico, and GATHERED OVER   SIGNATURES IN  DAYS TO Utah), studies attitudes toward coal mining, TINA DOVE, M.ED., a former high school teacher block the repeal of same day voter registration. economic development, and climate change and Capitol Hill staffer is the Director of within the Navajo reservation. Programs for the National Opportunity to Learn MAISIE CHIN is Co-Founder and Executive (OTL) Campaign at the Schott Foundation. Director of CADRE – Community Asset MALKIA AMALA CYRIL is the founder and The OTL Campaign seeks systemic reform to Development Re-defining Education. CADRE’s Executive Director of the Center for Media ensure all children have access to high quality mission is to advance parent leadership to *USTICE LAUNCHED IN  TO STRENGTHEN THE early childhood education; well-prepared, ensure that all children are rightfully educated media activism and communications capacity highly effective teachers; college preparatory regardless of where they live. Maisie is also of grassroots social justice movements. For curricula; and equitable instructional resources an independent consultant and serves on the THE PAST  YEARS -ALKIAS AWARD WINNING WORK and policies. Boards of Directors of Justice Matters and the has empowered local social justice leaders and Schott Foundation for Public Education. organizations with the skills and strategies they LOLIS ERIC ELIE is a writer and documentary need to navigate a complex media environment. filmmaker. He’s written about food, music and, DANISHA CHRISTIAN began her career in most recently has worked on the HBO show COMMUNITY ORGANIZING IN  3HE HAS WORKED MILLY HAWK DANIEL is Vice President for “Treme.” on a wide array of issues, including school Communications at PolicyLink. A speechwriter, curriculum reform, police misconduct, tribal editor, and author, she has directed ROBERT ESPINOZA is the Senior Director for sovereignty, health care reform, and health communications activities in several nonprofit Public Policy and Communications at SAGE, equity. She joined the Alliance for A Just Society organizations and provided consulting services the country’s largest organization focused on IN  WHERE SHE IS CURRENTLY A .ATIONAL &IELD for many others. Daniel has led communications improving the lives of LGBT older people. He Organizer. Danisha is also an alternative health efforts related to affordable housing, transit- has held leadership positions at Funders for care provider. oriented development, equitable rebuilding in ,'"41 )SSUES 3%)5 AND THE 'ILL &OUNDATIONˆ New Orleans, and revitalizing older core cities. and is a regular commentator for The Huffington WILL COLEY is a latte-drinking, bike-riding, taco- Post and Aging Today. loving, media-making social justice do-gooder TRISHALA DEB is the Director of Strategic originally from North Carolina now living in Los Partnerships with Caring Across Generations. RACHEL FALCONE is a NY-based multimedia Angeles. Will has been an advocate/organizer Caring Across Generations is bringing together producer and cultural organizer. She is for American Friends Service Committee and the stories of seniors, people with disabilities, Co-Director of the creative storytelling Jesuit Refugee Service, among others. With working families, and direct care workers into one project Housing is a Human Right, and has Aquifer Media, Will designs social media content campaign to ensure freedom and dignity for the worked as a producer with EarSay Inc., None strategy for clients such as Detention Watch workers who provide care and those they support. on Record, StoryCorps, Incite Pictures and Network and Rights Working Group and Public more. She organizes with Organizing for InterestProjects. JACK DEJESUS is the Young Men’s Program Occupation and Occupy Homes. Organizer at Forward Together in Oakland, CA.

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LILI FARHANG is Co-Director with Human Impact through their own Family Court cases. Jovonna KOHL S. GILL, Ph.D., is the CEO of LaborVoices, Partners, a non-profit in Oakland, CA. Guided by politically organizes for community-centered Inc., which crowdsources supply chain her long-standing belief that health is a product reform within the child welfare system through transparency directly from factory workers, of social, economic and political forces, Lili her work with East Harlem’s 16-year-old Child worldwide. Kohl served in the State works with organizations to re-conceptualize how Welfare Organizing Project. Department, as the South Asia and Middle East health is understood and, through the use of Labor Officer. He previously volunteered in innovative research and community engagement CJ FROSCH is a biracial, genderqueer, queer Delhi, fighting both petty and grand corruption. tools, how we can collectively improve health by collective member of the Charm City Kitty Kohl is a Mississippi-born physicist from Caltech targeting non-health policies. Club, a thrice-yearly Baltimore-based cabaret and U.C. Santa Barbara. whose mission is to celebrate artistic expression NEGIN FARSAD WAS RECENTLY NAMED ONE OF THE  AMONG LESBIAN DYKE TRANS  GENDERQUEER MARISELA B. GOMEZ is a community organizer/ Funniest Women by the Huffington Post. She individuals, as well as their allies. The activist, scholar, and author. has written for/appeared on Comedy Central, organization makes a commitment to create MTV, PBS, IFC, AOL, and Nickelodeon among and maintain an atmosphere free from racism, CAROLINA GONZÁLEZ is an award-winning others. She is also director/producer of current classism, biphobia, transphobia, misogyny, and journalist and scholar with over two decades of feature film release “Nerdcore Rising” and the cultural appropriation. experience in print and radio. She served as an upcoming “The Muslims Are Coming!” featuring editorial writer at the New York Daily News, and Jon Stewart, Lewis Black, Rachel Maddow, SAM FULWOOD III is a Senior Fellow at the Center has covered education, immigration, politics, Janeane Garofalo, and David Cross. for American Progress and Director of the CAP music and Latino culture in various alternative Leadership Institute. His work with the Center’s and mainstream media outlets. KIM FELLNER is associate director of Working 0ROGRESS  PROJECT EXAMINES THE IMPACT America, the community affiliate of the AFL- of policies on the nation when there will be no JESUS GONZALEZ is the Political Director and a CIO. Starting out at SEIU in the 1970s, she CLEAR RACIAL OR ETHNIC MAJORITY BY THE YEAR  founding member of Make the Road New York. worked at the Screen Actors Guild and directed the National Writers Union, before helping TEANA GAMILL is a high school senior at North JESSICA GONZÁLEZ-ROJAS is the Executive to found and direct the National Organizers Lawndale College Prep Charter high school. Her Director at the National Latina Institute Alliance. She wrote a book about Starbucks and artistic focus lies in percussion, performance, for Reproductive Health, the only national believes organizing is improved by chocolate. photography and poetry through which she reproductive justice organization that expresses her commitment to ending violence specifically works to advance reproductive MARJORIE FINE is a consultant to national against girls and women. She sees herself as a health and rights for over 20 million Latinas in organizing and funder networks on social justice feminist activist and uses her arts for advocacy the United States. philanthropy and fundraising. She served for in her community and school. more than a decade as Executive Director of the VICTOR GOODE, Associate Professor at CUNY Law Unitarian Universalist Veatch Program at Shelter DJ BOBBITO GARCIA is the co-founder of Bounce School, has practiced in the areas of affirmative Rock, and before that as Executive Director of Magazine and the critically acclaimed author of action, housing, and other civil rights fields. the North Star Fund. She serves on the board Where’d You Get Those? NYC’s Sneaker Culture: Before joining the Law School faculty, he served of the National Committee for Responsive 1960-1987 (Testify Books). He also recently co- as Associate Director and later the National Philanthropy. directed the documentary, Doin It In The Park: Director of the National Conference of Black Pickup Basketball, NYC (www.doinitinthepark. Lawyers. Victor is a board member of ARC REGINALD FITZGERALD is resident and com) and has been touring the world spinning vice-president of Community Housing records at various events. JESSICA GORDON NEMBHARD is the Associate and Relocation Working Group (CHRWG). Professor of Community Justice and Social CHRWG represents residents, churches, and ANA GARCIA-ASHLEY, born in the Dominican Economic Development in the Department businesses in the East Baltimore community Republic is the first woman of color to lead a of Africana Studies, John Jay College, CUNY. affected by EBDI’s redevelopment plan. national community organizing network. Garcia- She is a political economist specializing CHRWG grassroots organization building a !SHLEY WON  MILLION IN COMMITMENTS FROM in community economic development, coalition to support a Community Benefits local banks to invest in affordable housing. As a cooperatives and worker ownership, and Black Agreement to assure equity for affected result, 7,000 low income families in Milwaukee Political Economy. residents, churches, and businesses. were able to buy homes. Garcia-Ashley also founded Gamaliel’s statewide Wisconsin ROBERT GRAY manages faculty development TEKOAH FLORY IS A 1UEER BLACK "OI BASED IN affiliates, WISDOM. and teaches English at the University of Los Angeles who has seen their family, South Alabama. community and city constantly wrestling with ANTHONY GIANCATARINO is Coordinator of the amount of racial tension. Tekoah believes Research and Advocacy at The Center for Social GITA GULATI-PARTEE is the founder and that we need a multigenerational movement to Inclusion (CSI). CSI is a national nonprofit chief strategist of OpenSource Leadership really make effective changes in this country’s policy, strategy and advocacy organization that Strategies. She has published and presented systems of power. works with communities of color on transforming on racial equity, philanthropy, organization barriers into opportunities through policy and network development, adaptive leadership ALEXI FREEMAN, staff attorney at Advancement change. Anthony currently manages the Energy and change, organizational and movement Project, provides legal, policy, and Democracy and Food Equity programs at CSI. strategy, and systems change advocacy. She communications support to grassroots groups consults regularly to the National Committee nationwide on educational justice and inclusive YVONNE GILCHRIST HAS OVER  YEARS DIRECTING for Responsive Philanthropy, Community Food development campaigns. She has co-authored child welfare and human service agencies. Security Coalition, and National Gay and many reports and revised policies/laws that She has served as the Director of the Lesbian Task Force. are now national models for reform. Freeman Baltimore City Department of Social Services received a J.D. from Harvard Law School and and as the Director of the Washington DC SARITA GUPTA is the executive director of Jobs a B.A. from the University of North Carolina at and Fulton County Georgia Departments of with Justice (JwJ) and American Rights at Work Chapel Hill. Human Services. She is currently working as (ARAW). She is also the co-director of Caring a consultant with the Black Administrators in Across Generations, a coalition working together JOVONNA FRIESON has been directly affected by Child Welfare organization. for quality care and support and a dignified the child welfare system and currently supports quality of life for all Americans. and advocates for families who are navigating

26 FACING RACE: A National Conference GLENN HARRIS is the City of Seattle Race and organization that uses art and media to create provides racial justice training and consulting Social Justice Initiative Manager. Glenn has social change. Mr. Howard co-created a video to organizations around the country and has been involved in social justice work for 20 years, series addressing youth employment issues and authored several reports on race and equity. He’s as an organizer (Coalition for Human Dignity, has done work on youth/police relations. He a presenter for ARC’s Racial Justice webinars. Western States Center, Peoples Coalition for is currently a student at Community College He coordinated the national ERASE Initiative Justice); as a funder (MRG Foundation, Social Baltimore County studying acting and serves on the leadership team of Showing Justice Fund), and as a Seattle City employee and criminology. Up for Racial Justice. (Department of Neighborhoods, Race and Social Justice Initiative). DEEPA IYER is Executive Director of South Asian CHANNING KENNEDY oversees new media and Americans Leading Together (SAALT), a national video production for ARC. He’s also a regular ARISHA MICHELLE HATCH serves as a Campaign non-profit organization that amplifies policy contributor to Colorlines.com, interviewing Director at ColorOfChange. Prior to joining issues and engages in community mobilization artists of color about how they’re using the ColorOfChange, Arisha left behind a legal career programs. Deepa is a board member of ARC. internet to reach new audiences and smash to organize for the Obama Campaign and later the status quo (and, hopefully, to pay the rent). worked to mobilize the LGBT community as SARU JAYARAMAN is the Co-Founder and Co- Follow Channing at @thatssochanning National Organizing Director at the Courage Director of the Restaurant Opportunities Centers Campaign. Arisha studied Economics and United (ROC-United) and Co-Director of the NAVINA KHANNA works with Movement Strategy Creative Writing at Stanford. Food Labor Research Center at University of Center and Live Real. Based in Oakland, she has California, Berkeley. She authored Behind the SPENT NEARLY  YEARS FOCUSED ON TRANSFORMATIVE LAWRENCE HAYES believes killing is wrong no Kitchen Door FORTHCOMING &EBRUARY  FROM change through agriculture and food systems, matter how and in which way and by whom. He Cornell University Press. as an educator, community organizer, artivist, is a founding member of the Campaign to End and policy advocate. A first generation South the Death Penalty, which started in the mid- ALAN JENKINS is Executive Director of The Asian American, Navina’s worldview is shaped 1990s at Harvard University. Opportunity Agenda, a communications, by growing up—and growing food—in the U.S. research, and policy organization dedicated to and India. PAULINA HELM-HERNANDEZ has been the building the national will to expand opportunity. Co-Director of Southerners on New Ground Before joining The Opportunity Agenda, Alan KATE KHATIB is a managing editor at AK Press, (SONG) for 6 years. She has a background was Director of Human Rights at the Ford and the co-editor of We Are Many: Reflections in farm worker and immigrant / refugee rights Foundation, managing grant making in the on Movement Strategy from Occupation to organizing, cultural work, youth organizing, anti- United States and eleven overseas regions. Liberation. Based in Baltimore, MD, she violence work, and liberation work that centers teaches at Maryland Institute College of Art people most affected by violence, poverty, war BAKARI JONES, MBA, is a native Baltimorean and is a founding member of the Red Emma’s and racism. committed to reshaping the landscape of her collective. hometown. In January 2012 she founded Bois WADE HENDERSON is the president and CEO of Baltimore with the mission of creating safe RICHARD KIM is the executive editor of of The Leadership Conference on Civil and spaces for alternative masculinity. Bois of TheNation.com. He is co-editor, with Betsy Human Rights and The Leadership Conference Baltimore unites those that identify along Reed, of the New York Times bestselling Education Fund. He is the Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., the masculine spectrum through a diverse anthology Going Rouge: Sarah Palin, An Professor of Public Interest Law at the David A. offering of group activities, community service American Nightmare. He has taught at New Clarke School of Law, University of the District projects, local partnerships, discussions, and York University and Skidmore College. of Columbia. Mr. Henderson is a graduate of the educational programs. Rutgers University School of Law. JAMILAH KING is news editor at Colorlines.com, SANDRA JONES is an Associate Professor of where she coordinates story assignments and ALHELÍ HERRERA is an organizer with Enlace Sociology at Rowan University, a Licensed writes about culture, media, and technology. Chicago, a member organization of the Clinical Social Worker and a community Her work has also appeared on Salon.com, United Congress of Community and Religious activist. An abolitionist in the anti-death Al Jazeera, and The Advocate. Jamilah was /RGANIZATIONS 3HE IS A  GENERATION PENALTY MOVEMENT FOR  YEARS SHE SERVES ON formerly an editor at WireTap Magazine. A immigrant from Mexico and her work has been the Board of the Campaign to End the Death native of San Francisco, she graduated from dedicated to justice for immigrants in the U.S. Penalty. She is the author of Coalition Building Pitzer College, studied labor history at CUNY, in the Anti-Death Penalty Movement: Privileged and economics at the University of the West MARIELENA HINCAPIÉ is the executive director Morality, Race Realities. Indies. Follow Jamilah at @jamilahking. of the National Immigration Law Center (NILC), the main organization dedicated to defending VINA KAY is the Director of Research and EMILY KIRSCH is the Co-Founder and Director of and advancing the rights of low-income Policy at the Organizing Apprenticeship Project the Solar for Universal Need Cube (SfunCube). immigrants in the U.S. Under her leadership, (OAP).. A graduate of Carleton College and the The SfunCube is a solar business incubator NILC has grown, and has been able to more University of Minnesota Law School, Vina spent and accelerator partnership between Sungevity, strategically use a combination of litigation, several years working with john powell at the one of the fastest growing residential solar policy, communications, and alliance-building Institute on Race and Poverty. She is a writer companies in the country, and Inner City strategies to effect social change. and filmmaker working on the documentary Advisors, a nationally recognized nonprofit Building the Pink Tower, which reimagines leading the charge to create good jobs for inner JULIANNE HING is a reporter and blogger for schools and learning through the lens of city residents. The goal of the SfunCube is to Colorlines.com. She’s covered the growth of the Montessori education. make Oakland the nation’s epicenter for solar immigrant youth movement, police brutality and clean-tech entrepreneurship. issues, and education reform from federal LEA KEAL is a Philly native who has embraced policy to its impact on communities of color for community economic development and the SALLY KOHN is a writer, activist and television Colorlines, and her writing has appeared on vibrant local arts culture in every metro area commentator. A progressive Fox News The Root, Ta-Nehisi Coates’ blog at The where she’s lived including her hometown— Contributor and columnist for Salon, Atlantic, Salon.com and AlterNet. Follow Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Tel-Aviv, and now Sally’s writing has appeared in the Washington Julianne at @JulianneHing. New Orleans. Post, Reuters, USA Today, Politico, Time and more. Sally also works as a JOVON HOWARD works as an Advocacy Team TERRY KELEHER is the Program Director of ARC’s communications consultant. Member with New Lens, a youth-driven Racial Justice Leadership Action Network.He

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LUIS LARIN organized against free trade in over the country who organize daily for a more #GirlsLikeUs to empower trans women to live Guatemala and then came to the U.S. and affordable and accessible education for all. visibly. Her memoir Fish Food comes out Fall experienced poverty as a day laborer. As a  WITH !TRIA "OOKS Leadership Organizer with United Workers JOSE LOPEZ has spent half his life fighting for (UW), he helped with their successful Living justice and opportunity in Bushwick, Brooklyn. AISHA MOODIE-MILLS is a policy wonk, political Wages at Camden Yards Campaign. UW The son of two working class latin@s, Jose commentator, and equality advocate. Her work currently focuses on Fair Development in learned early the importance of family and with the FIRE Initiative at CAP explores the Baltimore, creating an organizing model at the COMMUNITY !T  *OSE HELPED TO CREATE THE intersections of race, sexual orientation, and intersection of public resources, poverty and Youth Power Project, the youth organizing arm gender, and she has been featured by a host of human rights. of Make the Road NY, a grassroots organization print and television outlets including MSNBC, working with families to improve their hoods. Essence, CurrentTV, and Politico among others. MIJO LEE has been an activist and organizer She, and her wife Danielle, also pen the in a variety of movements in the Seattle area, SUGUET LÓPEZ is Lideres Campesinas’ Executive politics and culture blog, threeLOL.com. including domestic violence advocacy, fair Director. She brings much experience and trade, and police accountability movements. knowledge about issues that affect women, MAISHA MORALES is the Co-Chair of FUREE, At Social Justice Fund NW she has helped to especially immigrant women. Ms. López was a Brooklyn-based organization led mostly by develop and establish Giving Projects, a new the first in her family to attend higher education low-income women of color. She is a former model that uses grassroots fundraising and and obtain a Bachelors’ Degree in California small business owner who was displaced from cross-class community building to fund racial State Polytechnic University, Pomona – college the historic Albee Square Mall in Downtown justice organizing throughout the Northwest. of agriculture and graduated with honors. Brooklyn as rich developers looked to replace the mostly POC area with a more “lucrative LAURA LEMUS is a queer non conforming ADRIEL LUIS injects imagination into social demographic”. She is a proud Latina, mother, salvadorean womyn born and raised in the Los and political conversations. He utilizes music, and community organizer. Angeles Area. As a working class student they visual art, design, and poetry to discover have been targeted in their community and in creative approaches to social engagement. SAMHITA MUKHOPADHYAY is a writer, speaker their school, because of the color of their skin. and technologist residing in Brooklyn, NY. She MARIANA MARROQUIN is an actress and activist, is the Executive Editor of the popular website BARBARA LEWIS is the mother of Robert Gattis, with more than 10 years working for LGBT Feministing.com and is the author of Outdated: the first person in the state of Delaware to community. She currently works as Client Why Dating is Ruining Your Love Life. She is receive clemency from the governor in January !DVOCATE AT ,! 'AY  ,ESBIAN #ENTER 3HE WAS also co-host of the podcast Opinionated on 2012 after 21 years on death row. Gattis was granted political asylum in 2006. This event Citizen Radio given clemency just three days before he was change her life and she made the commitment scheduled to be executed. of giving back to the country that recognizes MOSES J. NEWSON, is a retired, award-winning her as a transgender woman and gave her a journalist who lives in Baltimore. He worked JAIME-JIN LEWIS is the Executive Director safe place to call home. for the Memphis Tri-State Defender and the of Border Crossers and has worked as a Baltimore Afro-American and covered the committed activist, organizer and educator in SELENE MEDINA was born in Mexico but raised Emmett Till trial, Little Rock’s Central High the social change sector her whole life. This IN #HARLOTTE .ORTH #AROLINA 3HE IS YEARS desegregation, Freedom Ride and four national year, Jaime-Jin was cited in the New York old and is an undocumented college student. political nominating conventions. He is the co- Times article, “Why Don’t We Have Any White She is an activist in her community and part author of “Fighting For Fairness” and a member, Kids?” and the Colorlines article, ”Ways to of a youth group from the Latin American Maryland-Delaware-DC Press Association’s Hall Have Tough Talks With Kids About Race.” #OALITION CALLED 5NITED  THE $2%!- 3HE IS of Fame. a co-chair for the Drop the I word campaign in KUNG LI is a writer and human rights attorney our community. ZACHARY NORRIS is the Co-Director of Justice based in Atlanta. Kung Li is the former for Families, a national alliance of family driven executive director of the Southern Center PAMELA MERRITT (SHARK-FU) blogs at organizations working to end our nation’s youth for Human Rights and a 2010-11 Open AngryBlackBitch.com, where she has developed incarceration epidemic. Zachary is an attorney, Society Fellow. a blog that offers opinion pieces from a black a former Soros Justice Fellow and past director feminist perspective. Merritt is a staff writer of Books Not Bars, a campaign of the Ella Baker RUTH LINDBERG serves as a Program Manager for RH RealityCheck.org and a contributor to Center for Human Rights. for the National Center for Healthy Housing, Feministng.com. Merritt’s writing has been a nonprofit corporation dedicated to creating published in the Chicago Sun-Times, The MÓNICA NOVOA coordinates ARC’s Drop the healthy and safe homes for children through Guardian UK, and Salon. I-Word campaign which engages journalists to practical and proven steps. Ms. Lindberg drop the dehumanizing term “illegals.” She holds Master’s degrees in Public Health BRENTIN MOCK is a New Orleans-based blogs about media, culture and the i-word and Urban Planning from the University journalist who serves as Colorlines.com’s at Colorlines.com. Mónica, originally from El of Washington and a Bachelor of Arts in Reporting Fellow on Voting Rights. His Salvador, has a degree in English Literature Community Health from Brown University. reporting on voter ID laws, purging, felony from California State University, Northridge disenfranchisement and voter intimidation where she helped establish the nation’s first YVONNE YEN LIU is the outgoing Senior has been featured in highly viewed outlets Central American Studies Program. Follow Research Associate at the Applied Research such as Al Sharpton’s Politics Nation, Mónica at @DropTheIWord. Center and the incoming Director of Global Democracy Now and The Economist. He Movements program at WhyHunger. She previously worked at Loop 21 as senior editor. SIAN ÓFAOLÁIN works with Rights Working serves on the board of Smart Meme and the Follow: Brentin at @bmockaveli. Group’s members across the country on the advisory committee for the Food Chain Racial Profiling: Face the Truth campaign, Workers Alliance. JANET MOCK is a writer and Staff Editor at and co-coordinates the Defensive Team on People.com, who publicly shared her teenage multi-racial coalition building as a tool to TIFFANY DENA LOFTIN serves as President of the transition story in Marie Claire magazine in fight harmful legislation. As an organizer with United States Student Association (USSA). 2011. A native of Honolulu, Janet has spoken RWG, Sian provides support to local and state USSA is the oldest, largest and most inclusive about transgender issues on MSNBC and campaigns fighting against racial profiling in student run student led national organization, HLN, holds a masters in journalism from New the context of criminal justice, immigration training and developing college students from all York University and runs the online campaign enforcement, and national security.

28 FACING RACE: A National Conference MICHAEL OMI is a professor of Asian American IN .EWSWEEKS  &EARLESS 7OMEN LIST AND THE intersection of entrepreneurship, politics, Studies and Comparative Ethnic Studies at the Time 100 list. media and social identity. Chris is a board University of California, Berkeley where he is a member of ARC. recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Award NICOLE D. PORTER is the Director of Advocacy ˆ AN HONOR BESTOWED ON ONLY  5# "ERKELEY and coordinates state campaigns for The SOYINKA RAHIM, founder and director of Our faculty members since the award’s inception in Sentencing Project. She manages efforts Thing Arts Company is a Certified InterPlay  (E IS THE CO AUTHOR OF Racial Formation on sentencing reform, voting rights, and Leader. Raised in Oakland, California, Soyinka in the United States, a groundbreaking work eliminating racial disparities in the criminal facilitates Movement Meditations and Interplay that transformed how we understand the social justice system. Porter works closely with with diverse groups in the U.S. and abroad. and historical forces that give race its changing advocates at the state and local level in A member of the Bay Area’s most renowned meaning over time and place. planning their media and advocacy strategies dance companies, she has choreographed to advance criminal justice reforms. multigenerational dance performances JACQUELINE PATA is the Executive Director including an original dance play, “An Altar of NCAI, the oldest, largest and most MAGGIE POTAPCHUK founded MP Associates, Piece to Alter Peace.” representative American Indian and Alaska an organization that is dedicated to building Native organization serving the broad interests THE CAPACITY OF ORGANIZATIONS  COMMUNITIES NITIKA RAJ, is a National Organizer at Resource of tribal governments and communities. to effectively address structural racism and Generation organizing young people of color with Pata was the Deputy Assistant Secretary for privilege for building a just society. Her wealth. She comes from anti-violence and anti- Native American Programs during the Clinton research includes, Community Change Processes homophobia work using arts for building power Administration and serves on the Executive in Addressing Racial Inequities and Flipping the and healing. In 2010, Nitika became a member Board for the Leadership Conference on Civil 3CRIPT 7HITE 0RIVILEGE  #OMMUNITY "UILDING of Social Justice Fund’s first giving project. and Human Rights. 3HE CO CREATED WWWRACIALEQUITYTOOLSORG  Her “giving” (returning of wealth) supports the www.evaluationtoolsforracialequity.org. LIBERATION OF WOMEN  ,'"41 COMMUNITIES OF ABRAHAM PAULOS is deeply committed to color, art, and creating peace. social justice and has worked for a number Professor JOHN A. POWELL is Director of the Haas of years advocating for immigrant rights. Diversity Research Center (HDRC) and Robert D. FRANCHESCA RAMSEY is an actress, comedian Abraham is an Eritrean refugee, born in Sudan Haas Chancellor’s Chair in Equity and Inclusion AND BLOGGER WITH K SUBSCRIBERS ON 9OU4UBE and raised in Chicago. He is a graduate of at the University of California, Berkeley. Her videos have been featured on MTV, The NY George Washington University with a degree in Formerly, he directed the Kirwan Institute for Times and The BBC. “Sh*t White Girls Say... International Affairs and is currently finishing the Study of Race and Ethnicity at The Ohio TO "LACK 'IRLSv WAS VIEWED  MILLION TIMES IN  a Masters in Human Rights at the New School State University and the Institute for Race and days, garnering coverage on MSNBC, ABC and University. Poverty at the University of Minnesota. He led Anderson Cooper. Franchesca dreams of having the development of an “opportunity-based” a talk show or sitcom where she can continue ANA PEREZ is the National Movement Building model that connects affordable housing to to inspire. Director for Presente.org, the largest Latino on- racialized spaces in education, health, health line membership organization. She has been at care, and employment. He is the author of LISA RANGHELLI is the director of NCRP’s the forefront of organizing effective multi-racial Racing to Justice: Transforming our Concepts of Grantmaking for Community Impact Project, and multi-sector coalitions rooted in equity Self and Other to Build an Inclusive Society. combining research and field engagement to and community empowerment frameworks. increase funding for policy solutions to pressing She fled the Salvadoran civil war in the early JENNIFER POZNER is a journalist, public speaker community issues. Prior to joining NCRP in S GREW UP IN ,OS !NGELES AND BENElTED AND FOUNDING DIRECTOR OF 7OMEN )N -EDIA   ,ISA SPENT  YEARS PROMOTING ADVOCACY FROM THE  IMMIGRATION REFORM News, a media analysis, education and advocacy and civic engagement among underserved group. MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry calls communities. Lisa graduated from Wesleyan MAGDA PHILLIPS has been serving as a member her book, Reality Bites Back:The Troubling Truth University and holds a master of regional OF THE "ALTIMORE !LGEBRA 0ROJECT SINCE  About Guilty Pleasure TV, “required reading for planning degree from Cornell University. As a member, she has embarked in: a camp out every American girl and woman.” Her widely- on City Hall’s lawn, a five day hunger strike, a published media analysis is featured on ABC, SANGEETHA RAVICHANDRAN, MAAT, LPC, was sit-in at the Department of Juvenile Justice, #"3 ."# #.. -3."#  &/8 born and raised in India, moved to Chicago and much more. to pursue her fine art career and then an art MICHAEL PREMO is an artist, cultural worker therapy career. Her research and work centers CARMEN PITTMAN is a housing activist and and organizer dedicated to human rights. around intersectional approaches to examining spokesperson with Occupy Our Homes Atlanta. Michael co-created the Housing is a Human empowerment and serving women and girls in Her home is one of the key campaigns, and she Right storytelling project; and among others marginalized communities by acknowledging is defending her home from eviction. has worked with Hip-Hop Theater Festival, The their resilience, and helping them heal and gain Foundry Theater, StoryCorps, The Civilians and a stronger voice against violence. MARIA POBLET led a merger between a Black Organizing for Occupation. He is on the Board of organization and a Latino organization The Network of Ensemble Theaters. JILL REESE is the Associate Director of the that created Causa Justa :: Just Cause , a Alliance for a Just Society. She joined the regional, multi-racial powerhouse for racial DENNIS QUIRIN IS THE 2ACE  %QUITY !LLIANCE IN  AFTER SERVING THREE YEARS WITH and economic justice in the San Francisco Collaborative Program Officer for the Proteus its affiliate, Idaho Community Action Network. Bay Area. She serves as Executive Director Fund. In this role Dennis has designed and is From 2009-2011, Jill directed the Health there, and is a leader in social movement leading a national racial justice field building 2IGHTS /RGANIZING 0ROJECT A COALITION OF  work including the US Social Forum and the funding collaborative. The Race and Equity ORGANIZATIONS IN  STATES THAT WAS INSTRUMENTAL Grassroots Global Justice Alliance. Collaborative seeks to advance the field of racial in winning the inclusion of health equity justice by investing in city level cross racial provisions in health reform. AI-JEN POO is Director of the National Domestic collaborations that are building political power Workers Alliance and Co-director of the Caring and advancing racial equity through policy, STEVEN RENDEROS is the National Organizer Across Generations campaign. In 2000 she political, and budgetary solutions in strategic at the Center for Media Justice. He’s been co-founded Domestic Workers United, the cities across the nation. organizing for 7 years and producing media for organization that spearheaded the passage of 10. He is a native of Los Angeles, spent 9 years New York State’s historic Domestic Workers Bill CHRIS RABB is a teacher, writer, social in Minneapolis and recently relocated to New of Rights in 2010. In 2012 Ai-jen was named entrepreneur and thought leader on the York. He’s also a DJ and was the co-founder

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of Radio Pocho a successful program at a UNDER  IN THE ADULT CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM SILKY SHAH is the Communications Director community radio station in Minneapolis, MN. She is responsible for the overall state campaign of the Detention Watch Network (DWN), strategy. Ms. Sandoval uses her organizing a national coalition of organizations and ZOË REZNICK GEWANTER is Program Director of and advocacy expertise to build grassroots individuals working to reform the U.S. New Lens, a youth-driven organization that uses campaigns and to increase field capacity. immigration detention and deportation system. art and media to create social change. She has In addition to her work with DWN, she co- facilitated the creation of youth-produced art LINDA SARSOUR is a racial justice and national produces Asia Pacific Forum, a pan-Asian radio on a range of social justice and health issues security reform activist. Linda has been at SHOW ON 0ACIlCAS 7"!)  &- IN .EW 9ORK and works to evaluate the impact of arts-based the forefront of recent controversy around the community development so that these strategies warrantless surveillance of Muslim Americans in ANDY SHALLAL is the owner and founder of can be better understood and utilized. NYC. Linda is a proponent of coalition building Busboys and Poets and Eatonville Restaurants, and connecting the different movements to look spaces that are created for community JORGE RIVAS is the multimedia editor and pop at the criminal justice, immigration enforcement gatherings where art, culture and politics culture blogger for Colorlines.com. His writing and national security systems through a racial intentionally collide and where racial and focuses on stories at the intersection of race, justice lens. cultural connections are consciously uplifted. politics and culture. A firm believer in the power of visual communications to inform and move CHRIS SCHWEIDLER is Research Director LUCAS SHAPIRO is a Senior Organizer at FUREE people into action, Jorge also uses new media at DataCenter, and a research justice working with members on its Accountable to help readers build stronger connections to activist! Research justice is a transformative Development Campaign. He serves on the stories. Follow Jorge at @thisisjorge research agenda that challenges inequalities BOARD OF *EWS FOR 2ACIAL  %CONOMIC *USTICE in knowledge production and access to and is working to open a new community SCOTT ROBERTS is the Campaign Coordinator for information, and centers community knowledge organizing and cultural center in NYC: Advancement Project’s Ending the School-to- and leadership in movements for social change. www.movementspaceproject.org Prison Pipeline program. In this role he works Chris has collaborated on community driven directly with local community organizations research projects across areas including health, DARA SILVERMAN is a consultant, organizer and activists to provide support, training, and workers’ rights, the prison industrial complex, and trainer who works with social justice strategic advice in their efforts to address and housing. organizations to build their organizing skills, harmful and discriminatory school discipline fundraising and organizational capacity. Dara policies and practices. LILIANA SEGURA is an editor and journalist with is on the Leadership Team of SURJ: Showing a focus on prisons and sentencing. Her writing up for Racial Justice. She splits her time DIANA ROBINSON is the Campaign and Education on criminal justice issues has appeared in The between consulting and teaching yoga. For Coordinator of the Food Chain Workers Alliance. Nation, AlterNet, Colorlines.com, and other more information: http://www.darasilverman. Diana previously worked at UFCW Local publications. She has appeared on Democracy wordpress.com  WHERE SHE PLAYED DUAL ROLES AS A WORKER Now, Up With Chris Hayes, and Countdown with organizer and the Food Policy Coordinator. She Keith Olbermann. She is on the board of the RAJDEEP SINGH serves as director of law and was a leader of the union’s 2011 campaign to Applied Research Center and the Campaign to policy for the Sikh Coalition. In recent years, organize Target workers. Diana graduated from End the Death Penalty. he led successful efforts to pass civil rights 1UEENS #OLLEGE WITH A "ACHELORS $EGREE IN legislation in Oregon and California; published Political Science. NAYANTARA SEN is a Network and Training articles in the Washington Post and New York Associate at the Applied Research Center (ARC). Times; and appeared on numerous television FAVIANNA RODRIGUEZ is a transnational She hosts trainings, webinars, and workshops and radio programs. He earned his JD in interdisciplinary artist and cultural organizer that help people build political analysis, skills  AT THE #OLLEGE OF 7ILLIAM  -ARY who works for social change. and leadership for dismantling structural racism. She works with non-profits, students, BAYETÉ ROSS SMITH is a photographer and BABATUNDE SALAAM works as Advocacy Leader Occupiers, educators and grassroots activists. multi-media artist from Harlem, New York. at New Lens, a youth-led organization that Nayantara has a BA in Postcolonial Literature His work examines identity, beauty and media uses art and media to create social change. Mr. from Michigan State University. She is a Masters literacy. He also creates community based Salaam has worked on video projects addressing candidate at NYU, where she studies diasporic public art. Bayeté is a faculty member at NYU, education, police/youth relations, sexual health, literature, social movement theory, and creative the ICP and Parsons. His collaborative projects youth employment and other issues. Mr. Salaam writing. Follow Nayantara at @NayantaraS h!LONG 4HE 7AYv AND h1UESTION "RIDGE "LACK is currently a student at Morgan State University -ALESv HAVE SHOWN AT THE  AND  and hopes to pursue a career in teaching. RINKU SEN is the Executive Director and Sundance Film Festival. President of the Applied Research Center (ARC) JULIO SALGADO is the co-founder of and publisher of Colorlines.com. Rinku is also AKIBA SOLOMON writes the Gender Matters DreamersAdrift.com and a member of the author of Stir It Up: Lessons in Community blog at Colorlines.com and is an NABJ-Award CultureStrike. His status as an undocumented, Organizing and The Accidental American: winning writer, freelance journalist, editor queer artivist has fueled the contents of his Immigration and Citizenship in the Age of and essayist for a range of publications, illustrations, which depict key individuals and Globalization. Her work on immigration has including Essence, Glamour, Redbook, Vibe, moments of the DREAM Act movement. recently been featured on ABC and MSNBC. and POZ. Akiba is a highly sought out speaker Rinku is a Prime Movers Fellow and was named on women’s and social justice issues and DIAMOND SAMPSON is a sophomore at Baltimore one of Ms. Magazine’s “21 Feminists to Watch.” co-edited Naked: Black Women Bare All City College high school. She joined the Inner Follow Rinku at @ARC_RinkuSen About Their Skin, Hair, Hips, Lips, and Other Harbor Project in June 2012. She thinks this Parts 0ERIGEE   &OLLOW !KIBA AT project will give young people a chance to reveal NEOMARA SERGES was born and raised in AkibaSolomon. the unknown. As a person she is very outspoken Chicago, Illinois where she is currently so this is a way to let her voice be heard! trying to go back to college because it’s SAKET SONI is an Organizer and the Director expensive. However, in her free time she of the New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial JESSICA SANDOVAL is the Director of National enjoys volunteering for different organizations, Justice. The Center was formed to organize Field Operations at the Campaign for Youth including the Illinois Safe Schools Alliance and African-American and Immigrant workers and Justice, a national organization that is dedicated About Face Youth Theatre. residents across the colorline. to ending the practice of prosecuting children

30 FACING RACE: A National Conference LESTER SPENCE is an Associate Professor of For nearly 12 years, MS. WENDY THOMPSON project intended to increase the amount and Political Science and Africana Studies at was Vice President of ZGS Broadcast Holdings, effectiveness of resources aimed at combating Johns Hopkins University. a minority-owned communications company institutional and structural racism. She has where she supervised the daily operations and been in philanthropy for more than 20 years, REBEKAH SPICUGLIA is Senior Communications advertising sales of eleven Telemundo network and sits on the board of directors of several Manager for the Applied Research Center and affiliates. foundations and nonprofit organizations. Colorlines.com. Rebekah has worked for the 7OMENS -EDIA #ENTER THE 'AY  ,ESBIAN AIMÉE THORNE-THOMSEN is the Vice President AIMEE WALKER is Development Manager at Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), and as a for Strategic Partnerships at Advocates for the Applied Research Center. She has been a media strategy and brand consultant. She has Youth, a national sexual and reproductive health fundraiser since 2001, working to grow and APPEARED ON 4ODAY 3HOW &OX  &RIENDS -ARIE organization serving young people. She has diversify income for a variety of social justice Claire, NYTimes.com, About.com, Salon, and an extensive background in communications, and arts related non-profit organizations. has trained dozens of journalists and advocates. movement-building, and new media She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Follow Rebekah at @rcspicuglia. technologies. Aimée earned her BA from Yale Columbia University as well as a Certificate in University and an MPA from Baruch College, Philanthropy and Fundraising from NYU. LARRINITA STARKS is a high school senior at City University of New York. North Lawndale College Prep Charter high CARLA WALLACE has been engaged in social school. Larrinita identifies as a natural leader OPAL TOMETI is the National Organizer for the JUSTICE ORGANIZING FOR OVER  YEARS 3HE IS and uses her poetry to advocate and bring Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI), a cofounder of the Fairness Campaign in awareness about ending violence against girls where she helps to educate and advocate for Louisville which places racial justice central to and women in her community. immigrant rights and racial justice with African- THE STRUGGLE FOR ,'"41 EQUALITY 3HE HELPS LEAD Americans, Afro-Latinos, African and Caribbean Louisville Showing Up for Racial Justice and the CHRISTIAN SUNDQUIST teaches critical race immigrant communities. national SURJ network. theory, evidence, federal courts and immigration at Albany Law School. His scholarly interest JERMAINE TONEYis a Research Consultant with DORIAN T. WARREN is Associate Professor in the lies at the intersection of race and law, and the Applied Research Center. He is working Department of Political Science, the School his publications have appeared in the Harvard towards a doctorate in economics from New of International and Public Affairs, and the Blackletter Law Journal, the Columbia Journal School for Social Research in NYC. Previously, Institute for Research in African-American for Race and Law and the N.Y.U. Annual Survey Jermaine worked as lead researcher with Studies at Columbia University. He is also a of American Law Journal, among others. Organizing Apprenticeship Project in Minnesota. Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute and a board There, he authored policy reports on economic member of The Applied Research Center. TIFFANI SYKHAMMOUNTRY has dealt with opportunity and education. bullying but it was her close friend’s experiences JAMAL WATKINS is the Chief of Staff at the with severe forms of harassment that motivated LOAN TRAN is a queer immigrant community Center for Social Inclusion. He is responsible for her to pursue anti-bullying and human rights organizer originally from Vietnam and currently providing programmatic leadership through the work. Tiffani is a senior in high school, President based (and loving it) in the South. Loan management of all program staff. This includes of her school’s GSA and Humanitarian Club, and believes in ending intrapersonal violence, but is not limited to strategy development, a GLSEN Student Ambassador. advocating for migration as a basic human program management, organizational right, creating anti-racist spaces, addressing networking, alliance building and relationship DR.A.LENORA TAITT-MAGUBANE is a native New issues of socioeconomic injustice, and the management. Yorker who became involved in the civil rights liberation of queer and transgender individuals movement while attending Spelman College in their community through story sharing as a JANÉE WOODS WEBER provides training and in Atlanta, Georgia. There she became a revolutionary tactic. coaching to community coalitions to help them member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating develop large-scale, diverse dialogue programs Committee and the Committee on Appeal for IRERI UNZUETA CARRASCO is from Little and problem solving strategies for community- Human Rights(Atlanta Student Movement). In 6ILLAGE AND -EXICO 3HE IS  YEARS OLD wide issues. December 1961 traveling by train from Atlanta, undocumented, loves bicycles, and is deeply she became one of the 11 Albany Georgia committed to creating spaces where people MELINDA WEEKES brings experience in the freedom riders who tested interstate travel, were can organize together and learn from each fields of law, organizational development, arrested and spent two weeks in the Albany City other. Ireri wants to create a society where collaboration, process design and urban and County jails. Presently, she works as an collective solutions, creativity, respect and care ministry to her work at the Applied Research Education/ Social Work Consultant and lecturer for people and ecosystems are practices in our Center. As Managing Director, she leads its on the civil rights movement of the 1960’s. She everyday lives. senior management team, directs day-to-day resides in New York and South Africa. operations and supervises the progress of ARC’s TRACY VAN SLYKE is the director of The New various departmental initiatives. Born and bred JAMES THINDWA is the civic engagement Bottom Line-an alignment of community in the Bronx, Melinda lives in Brooklyn, New coordinator for the American Federation of organizations, congregations and individuals York and is a sought after facilitator, strategist, Teachers. He is a former consumer rights activist working to challenge big bank interests and preacher and leadership coach. Follow FOR #ITIZEN !CTION /HIO  )NDIANA ORGANIZER FOR build an economy that works for everyone. Melinda at @MelindaWeekes. Metro Seniors (Chicago) and director of Chicago Van Slyke is the former director of The Media Jobs With Justice. Thindwa serves on the boards Consortium and is co-author of the book, SETH FREED WESSLER is an award-winning of Illinois Labor History Society, CAN TV and In Beyond the Echo Chamber: Reshaping Politics journalist and researcher for Colorlines.com These Times magazine, where he is also a writer. Through Networked Progressive Media. and the Applied Research Center. He writes on immigration, the safety net, criminal justice S. LEIGH THOMPSON is a social justice artist, JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS, an award-winning and the fallout of the recession and led a critical educator, raging queer and the Executive multimedia journalist, is the founder of Define groundbreaking Colorlines.com investigation Director of The Forum Project, an organization American, a new campaign that seeks to elevate on mothers and fathers who lose their parental using Theatre of the Oppressed (TO) to engage the conversation around immigration. rights when they’re deported. Seth’s work has communities in dialogue around oppression. appeared in outlets including GOOD Magazine, Leigh holds an MA from NYU in utilizing TO for LORI VILLAROSA is the executive director and The Texas Observer and NPR’s Latino USA and political and social change, and serves on the founder of the Philanthropic Initiative for Racial he’s often interviewed by national press about Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed Board. Equity (PRE), www.racialequity.org, a multiyear his investigations. Follow Seth at @SethFW.

DEFINE JUSTICE. MAKE CHANGE. 31 SPEAKER BIOS (continued)

MAYA WILEY is the Founder and President JAMIA WILSON is a feminist media activist, KALIMA YOUNG coordinates the Baltimore Art + of the Center for Social Inclusion, a national organizer, and storyteller. Her words and works Justice Project. She facilitates dialogue, data organization that works to identify and support have been featured in GOOD Magazine, CBS collection and mapping that enables Baltimore policy strategies to transform structural News, Alternet, GRIT TV, Ms. Magazine, The City to identify and strengthen its arts based inequity and exclusion into structural fairness Today Show, Rookie Magazine, and more. social justice assets. Formerly with the ACLU and inclusion. A civil rights attorney, Maya of Maryland, Ms. Young also served as Project has litigated, lobbied the US Congress and TIM WISE is among the most prominent anti- Director of Connect to Protect: Baltimore, a developed programs to transform structural racist writers and educators in the United project that mapped communities to support racial inequity in the US and South Africa. States, and the author of 6 books, including partnerships and advocacy around HIV/AIDS. White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a CHANCELLAR WILLIAMS lobbies for public Privileged Son, and his latest, Dear White DEANNA ZANDT is a media technologist and the interest media policies. He works to make America: Letter to a New Minority, which author of Share This! How You Will Change Washington more accessible by engaging key examines rising white anxiety in an increasingly the World with Social Networking(Berrett- allies in lobbying and advocacy on Capitol multicultural nation. Koehler, June 2010). She is a consultant to key Hill and at the FCC. Chancellar also builds progressive media and advocacy organizations, collaborative projects that advance Free KAI WRIGHT is Editorial Director of the award- and her clients have included The Ford Press’ policy and movement-building goals. winning daily news site Colorlines.com, fellow Foundation, The Daily Beast/Newsweek, and Chancellar serves on the board of Allied of The Nation Institute, and author of three Jim Hightower’s Hightower Lowdown. She is a Media Projects and the advisory council of books on race, sexuality and African American Research Fellow at the Center for Social Media the Media Literacy Project. history. Kai has closely covered the foreclosure at American University. Zandt specializes in crisis and the ensuing economic collapse and social media, is a leading expert in women and RON WILLIAMS entered the realm of community has appeared on MSNBC, NPR, The Root, The technology, and is a frequent guest on CNN organizing through leadership development American Prospect, and other high-profile media International, BBC Radio, Fox News and more. training provided by the Industrial Areas outlets. Follow Kai at @kai_wright. Deanna is a board member of ARC. Foundation. Ron’s particular expertise is in the area of designing and facilitating leadership MIRIAM W. YEUNG, Executive Director of the development workshops and trainings for dis- National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum empowered and disenfranchised groups. Ron (NAPAWF) guides the country’s only national, Williams is Executive Director of Oregon Action multi-issue, progressive organization dedicated based in Portland, Oregon. to social justice and human rights for Asian and Pacific Islander women and girls in the US.

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32 FACING RACE: A National Conference 30TH ANNIVERSARY

THE APPLIED RESEARCH CENTER TURNS 30!  MARKS THE TH !NNIVERSARY OF THE !PPLIED 2ESEARCH #ENTER !2# As we begin our fourth decade of work, we think it’s an ideal moment for us to pause and reflect on our first three decades. Some of our most monumental achievements, described in the timeline below, were made possible with the help of ARC’s current and past staff, board, partners, and supporters.

1981 ARC IS FOUNDED ARC is founded as an analytic resource for community organizations of color in the Center for Third World Organizing (CTWO) network. Our founding Director was Gary Delgado.

1992 L.A. REBELLION The L.A. Rebellion follows the acquittal of officers in the Rodney King trial.

1996 WELFARE REFORM Welfare Reform Act passes. ARC takes it on by publishing False Foundations of Welfare Reform and taking actions for a national alliance of welfare rights organizations (between 1991 and 2001).

SUPPORT 1998 COLORLINES MAGAZINE ColorLines Magazine is launched with the goal of regularly sharing analysis of ARC’S current issues with others in the racial justice movement.

FUTURE 2001 USA PATRIOT ACT In response to the 9/11 attack, the USA Patriot Act is passed, leading to an increase in racial profiling, deportation, and detention.

2002 RJLI LAUNCHES The Next 30 ARC launches Racial Justice Leadership Initiative (RJLI), offering training and consultation to help thousands of activists and organizations advance MEDIA SPONSORS We are proud of the racial equity. accomplishments we have made with the help of our supporters 2004 FIRST FACING RACE CONFERENCE ARC hosts first Facing Race Conference (then known as the Race and Public and partners, over our thirty-year Policy Summit) in Berkeley CA, which would evolve into the largest national history. We are also excited, gathering of racial justice activists, scholars, and artists. ARC also launches Legislative Report Cards on Racial Equity, which assess the extent to which states’ during this important moment, to begin to carve out our vision legislation meet racial equity standards (now released in 12 states). for ARC’s future and the victories 2005 HURRICANE KATRINA and struggles that lay ahead for Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans. The tragic outcomes and lack of federal racial justice. At ARC we are response point to systemic racial inequity.

calling this, The Next 30. 2010 5TH FACING RACE CONFERENCE !2# HOSTS TH &ACING 2ACE .ATIONAL BIENNIAL #ONFERENCE IN #HICAGO 4HERE With your support we are ARC releases Better Together, addressing intersection of LGBT and racial justice issues and launches Drop the I-Word Campaign, asking media and public to confident that ARC’s next thirty eliminate the use of the term “illegal immigrant.” Colorlines transitions from a years will be vibrant, filled with print magazine to a daily news site: colorlines.com. more strides forward for racial 2011 COLORLINES.COM justice. To make a donation, Colorlines.com reaches 1,000,000 readers annually. ARC publishes Shattered please go to arc.org/donate Families, exploring the extent to which children in foster care are prevented or contact Aimee Walker, from uniting with their detained or deported parents. President Obama publicly Development Manager, acknowledges the report and there is broad media coverage. ARC also launches the Racial Justice Webinar Series, making its training accessible to a wider public. at [email protected] or 646-502-8842. 2012 ARC’S 30TH YEAR !2# ENTERS ITS TH YEAR WITH THREE RELEASES Millennials, Activism, and Race, which provides findings around Millennials’ vision, values, and barriers to activism; Better Together In Action (Case Studies); and Good Food and Good Jobs for All, examining opportunities for collaboration between the “good food” and “good jobs” movements. Colorlines.com receives recognition and awards and launches Voting Rights Watch 2012 in collaboration with The Nation.

DEFINE JUSTICE. MAKE CHANGE. 33 FOUNDATIONS+DONORS

It takes significant funding INDIVIDUAL DONORS 2011/2012 support to fuel ARC’s work, from Anonymous Tanisha Douglas Aaron Kaufman-Haft Carlos Pareja Sage Skog Vanessa Abanu Marta Drury Brendan Keleher Radha Patel Naomi Sobel our cutting edge research reports Elinor Abercrombie Deborah Drysdale Colleen Keleher Tim Patterson Akiba Solomon and journalism to the Facing Kevin Acebo Anastasia Dubrovsky John Keleher James Pearson Gabriel Solorio Sasha Ahuja Susan Ekstrom Patrice Keleher Sonia Peña DongWon Song Race conference. We know that Lisa Albrecht Paula Elliott Terrence Keleher Carol Pencke Katherine Souchet Habiba Alcindor Paloma Esquivel Sheetal Khanna-Ravich Carmen Perez Rebekah Spicuglia our work advancing racial justice Charlene Allen Amarilys Estrella Thomas Kieffer Steve Phillips Catherine Squires is only possible thanks to the Alison Altman Mary Ferguson Tom Kiely Emily Pinkowitz Murphy Stack Milo Alvarez Diane Finnerty Bouree Kim Selina Pishori Robin Standish generous support of committed Jill Anderson Laura Flanders Larry Kirschner Andrew Piston Iris and Joan Starr Beth Applegate Jan Flora Barbara Klaver Vijay Prashad Vicky Steinitz individuals and foundations. Janey Archey Erica Foldy Elizabeth Kleckner Jenny Pressman Lex Steppling Below is a list of those who have Elizabeth Archuleta Emily Fontane Jennifer Kline Albertina Prins Laura Stivers Minerva Arias Cheryl Ford Lauren Sabina Kneisly Mike Prokosch Susan Stroesser offered financial support to ARC Om Arora Steve Fowler Didi Koka Jeanne Pupke Nina Sundsten Edith Arrington Marilyn Frankenstein Shelley Korch $IANA 1UINONES 2IVERA George Suttles over the past year. Beatrice Atkinson- Melia Franklin Tracy Kronzak $ENNIS 1UIRIN Jessica Swanson Myers Janet Freed Alex Kulick Noel Rabinowitz Steven Swift Emily Avera Maysoun Freij Patricia Kuta Nitika Raj Amelia Swinton Harvey Bailey Wilma Garren Raymond Langham Catherine Raphael Mana Tahaie Bob Barber Sharon Gary-Smith Camille Lannan Asghar Rastegar Brandice Taylor Martha Barry William Gibbons Amy Lee Suzanne Regalado Deborah Taylor-Pearce Dori Begley Michael Ginther Sunny Lee Pawan Rehill Irene Thompson Josh Begley Sherna B. Gluck Theresa Lee Sheila Rekdal Paulette Thompson Eva Benavidez-Clayton Virali Gokaldas Sally Leiderman Steven Renderos S. Leigh Thompson FOUNDATION DONORS Ciel Benedetto Tiffany Gonzales Josh Levy Nina Reyes Megan Thorsfeldt Jessica Bennett Akonadi Foundation Victor Goode Steve Lew Zochitl Reyes Mithuna Thottethodi Clayton Berling Lena Graber Elaine Lew-Smith Alma Reyes Evans Carrie Tilton-Jones Arcus Foundation Baidurya Bhattacharya Lisa Graustein Maryellen Lewis Francis Reynolds Phil Ting Eva Boman Green Retirement Chris Linder Louise Rice Patricia Tomlin The Atlantic Philanthropies Rebecca Booth-Fox Plans, Inc. Ruth Lindsay Jorge Rivas Chie Torigoe Kathy Bougher Elizabeth Gres The California Endowment Carmen Llanes Dorothy Roberts Joseph Torres Furious Bradley Erica Grevemeyer Joann Lo Roberts Loan Tran Marguerite Casey Foundation David Brandmark Linda Guinee Julie Locke Guadalupe Rodriguez Micah Uetricht Ellen Bravo Ellen Gurzinsky Christina Lopez Patricia Rodriguez Victor Ulmer Embrey Family Foundation Godwin Brempong LeeAnn Hall Jenna Loyd Rachel Rogers-Bursen Lauren Valchius Ford Foundation Kate Brennan Tammy L Hall Kimbirly Mack Bruce Rosen Paul VanDeCarr Johanna Brenner Shirley Hamburg Aida Manduley Idra Rosenberg Lorelei Villarosa Gaea Foundation Frederick Brodie Katelin Hansen Diana Marquette Fred Rosenblum Shacheendra Vinod Nataly Brogsdale Zanetta Harris Sarah Martin Eileen Rosete Sasha Vodnik Groundswell Reproductive Justice Fund Helynna Brooke Karen Hatch Margaret Rossoff of Tides Foundation Mark Masaoka Karen C Wagner Robert Brown Z! Haukeness Geneen Massey Derek Roth Gordon Aimee Walker W. K. Kellogg Foundation Jason Bucy Revital Heller Sharon Mastracci Joseph Rowe Emily Walker Mike Burke Kristin Henley Lucia Mattox Nan Rubin Michael Walker Lambent Foundation Kermit Burton Annette Henry Mary Beth Maxwell Noah Rubin-Blose Carla Wallace Elizabeth Busch Marcia Henry Elise McCaffrey Erin Runions Andrea Dionne Linked Fate Fund for Justice of Tides Melanie E Bush Donna Hernandez Trina Saha Warmack Foundation Monica McCann Leslie Cagan Beatriz Herrera Michelle McCrary Rahul Saksena Tali Weinberg Media Democracy Fund Marie Nafissa Camara Jesse Herrera Meta Mendel-Reyes Stacy Salas Allen Weinrub Margaret Campbell Rick Hesch Gregory Mengel Nancy Sampson Steven Werlin The Nation Institute Kathleen Campisano Polly Howells Linda Meric Susan Sandler Nathan Wessler Megan Carpentier Andrew Hoyles Kate Sattler Steve Wessler Open Society Foundations James Metzler Aileen Carr John Hughes Melissa Minnich Emmett Schaefer Carolyn White The Rockefeller Foundation Trisha Chakrabarti H. Nona Hungate Monique Mollett Molly Schneider Ron Wild Omi Chandiramani Laurie Ignacio Hugh Molotsi Rachel Scheer Robin Williams Schott Foundation for Public Education Caroline Chang Pablo Ildefonso Leilani Montes Katherine Elizabeth Regina Willis Schoellenbach Melinda Chateauvert Olukemi Ilesanmi Marie E Moore Howard Winant Two Sister’s and a Wife Foundation Jennifer Schuberth Amy Chen Eric Imperiale Pamela Morgan Noli Scott Winn Cassie Schwerner Underdog Fund of Tides Foundation Victor Chen Lynne Jackier Janice Morrissey Adam Wishneusky Anamaria Segura Janet Choi Jodi Jacobson B. Jo Ann Mundy Wesley Woo Unitarian Universalist Veatch Program Liliana Segura Beth Cleary Karuna Jaggar Jennifer Myhre Shadia Wood SEGURA Consulting LLC at Shelter Rock William Coley David Jette Beth Nagusky Kai Wright Baishali Sen Susan Colson Greg and Maria Jobin- Shadi Nahvi Kimberly Wu Leeds Bharati Sen Manuel Criollo Scot Nakagawa Thanushka Yakupitiyage Sandra Jones Chaitali Sen Linda Crockett Carl Nightingale Kamalii Yeh-Garcia Anne Jonas Sadiyah Seraaj Robbie Curry Elaine Nonneman Jay Young Ariana Jostad-Laswell Rebecca Sherman Kiron Das Salome Nortey Betty Yu Kristyn Joy Drew Serres Susan Davidoff Angela Oh Richard Yurman Soya Jung Joe Shiber Marco Davis Anne Olson Judi Zamora Keith Kamisugi Elizabeth Sholes Sonja de Vries Cathleen Ostuw Deanna Zandt Katherine kaplan Elizabeth Silkes Lee K DeDeaux Coleman Ow Robert Karran Cynthia Silva Parker Michael Deutsch Lilly Padia Steve Katz Cory Silverberg Michelle Devitt Brenda Padilla Jennifer Kaufman Robert Sinclair Jim Douglas Jan Padios

34 FACING RACE: A National Conference ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The Applied Research Center would like to recognize the following individuals and institutions for their generous support of FACING RACE 2012:

FACING RACE 2012 Human Impact Partners APPLIED RESEARCH CENTER STAFF CO-SPONSORS United for a Fair Economy YWCA- Greater Baltimore NEW YORK, NY FOUNDATION Rinku Sen, %XECUTIVE $IRECTOR  0UBLISHER OF #OLORLINES Akonadi Foundation Melinda Weekes, Managing Director The Annie E. Casey Foundation FRIEND The Arcus Foundation American Federation of Teachers Kavita Das, Marketing and Communications Director The California Endowment Campaign for Youth Justice Jeong Bae, Operations Director The Embrey Family Foundation Center for Media Justice Kai Wright, Editorial Director, Colorlines.com Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation Center for Social Inclusion Jamilah King, News Editor, Colorlines.com Dignidad Rebelde Ms. Foundation for Women Johnathan Fields, Executive Assistant The Nathan Cummings Foundation Everyday Democracy Proteus Fund Equal Justice USA Donna Hernandez, Special Events Coordinator Research Associates Foundation Families for Freedom Nadia Mohamed, Assistant Events Coordinator Schott Foundation for Public Education Free Press Monica Novoa, Drop the I-Word Campaign Coordinator Louisville Showing Up for Racial Justice Nayantara Sen, Network Training Associate The Nation CHAMPION Jermaine Toney, Research Consultant National Association for the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum Rebekah Spicuglia, Senior Communications Manager Advancement of Colored People National Committee for Responsive Tiffany Bradley, Online Marketing Associate (NAACP) Philanthropy Aimee Walker, Development Manager National Congress of American Indians Seth Freed Wessler, Senior Researcher BENEFACTOR New Bottom Line Aura Bogado, Community Journalism Coordinator, Colorlines.com The Advancement Project New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Center for Social Inclusion Justice Akiba Solomon, Reporting Fellow, Colorlines.com Color of Change Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity Sonia Guinansaca, Drop the I-Word Intern PolicyLink Sarita Covington, #OMMUNICATIONS  -ARKETING )NTERN Resource Generation ADVOCATE Rights Working Group Azlan Petra, Special Events intern Baltimore Racial Justice Alliance 3!'% 3ERVICES  !DVOCACY FOR ',"4 Kelli Soto, Development Intern Elders) STEWARD The United States Student Association CHICAGO, IL Center for Community Change Tim Wise Terry Keleher, Director, Racial Justice Leadership Action Network Center for New Racial Studies - Victor Goode - City University School of Law University of California Working America OAKLAND, CA Dom Apollon, Ph.D, Research Director Hatty Lee, !RT  0RODUCTION -ANAGER TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE VOLUNTEERS Alfredo DeAvila, Senior Program Associate Diana Connolly, Groundswell Marketing Om Prakash Arora Julianne Ong Hing, Reporter/Blogger, Colorlines.com AV One Team Nicole Barnett Channing Kennedy, New Media Producer Erick Boustead Yvonne Liu, Senior Research Associate ART & DESIGN Safiya Bridgewater Darlene Pagano, Business Associate Stefanie Liang Hehershe Buseugo Phoenix Soleil, Technology Strategist Hatty Lee J’nelle Chelune Justin Allen, Developer Contractor Laura Cöelis Mendoza Nia King, Communications Intern COPY EDITORS Sharon Cromwell Julia Sebastian, Research Intern Tiffany Bradley Benjamin Fisher Darren Arquero, Network/Research Intern Kavita Das Miriam Fogelson Bryan Gerhart Donna Hernandez LOS ANGELES, CA Nadia Mohamed Surbhi Godsay Jorge Rivas, Multimedia Editor/Pop Culture Blogger, Colorlines.com Aimee Walker Laura Gruberg Rajani Gudlavalleti PHOTOGRAPHY Nia Hampton NEW ORLEANS, LA Brian Palmer Cathy Howell Brentin Mock, Reporting Fellow, Colorlines.com Miriam Fogelson Adam Jacobs Jennifer Kline EMCEES Natania Kremer W. Kamau Bell Jaime-Jin Lewis BOARD OF DIRECTORS Rhoda Linton Deanna Zandt Dorian Warren, ARC Board Chair, Columbia University Samantha Master W. Kamau Bell, Comedian, Host, “The W. Kamau Bell Curve” CHILDCARE COLLECTIVE Lucia Mattox Victor Goode, City University of New York School of Law Kidz City Suzu McConnell-Wood Kids Creative Ami Patel Ellen Gurzinsky, Funders for Lesbian and Gay Issues Neena Pathak LeeAnn Hall, Alliance for a Just Society HOST COMMITTEE Shawn Powell Deepa Iyer, South Asian Americans Leading Together Lori Villaros, PRE Danielle Redden Chris Rabb, founder of Afro-Netizen Maggie Potapchuk, MP Associates Margarita Russolello Rashad Robinson, ColorofChange.org Dianne Lyday, Baltimore Racial Justice Action Sara Schmidt Liliana Segura, Associate Editor of The Nation Network Zach Stafford Deanna Zandt, Media Technologist and Consultant Dr. Marvin Cheatham, National Action Chelsea Thaw Rinku Sen, 0RESIDENT  %XECUTIVE $IRECTOR OF !2# 0UBLISHER OF #OLORLINESCOM Network Zoilo R. Torres Gary Delgado, Board Member Emeritus, Visiting Scholar - Institute for the Study Lester Spence, *OHNS (OPKINS 5NIVERSITY  Hana Worku of Social Change at the University of California, Berkeley Baltimore Mixtape Project Victoria Yee Jay Gillen & Maggie Phillips, Baltimore Thanu Yakupitiyage Algebra Project Dianne Bell-McKoy, Associated Black Charities Tim Wise Marc Steiner, Radio Host

DEFINE JUSTICE. MAKE CHANGE. 35 COLORLINES.COM

Colorlines.com is an award- Since launching as a daily news and analysis site in 2010, the site has grown winning, daily news site where exponentially, building a vibrant social media community and playing an active role in mass media discussions on race. All of this allows Colorlines.com to achieve its race matters. Colorlines is core mission: introducing a mass audience to new ideas and solutions for bringing produced by a multi-racial team about racial justice. of writers and editors who bring a critical racial lens and analysis to In 2012, the Colorlines investigation Shattered Families was awarded the Sidney Hillman Prize in web journalism and Colorlines was an Official Webby Honoree for breaking news stories as well as the second year in a row. In addition to promoting racial justice through our own in-depth investigations on politics, reporting, Colorlines staff are sought after as experts on current race issues, with immigration, education, economy, regular media appearances on MSNBC, NPR, and other national and local TV and radio outlets. youth and pop culture. Key Recent Coverage: s /NOW, by Jorge Rivas, a breaking news blog following the latest headlines on everything from politics to pop culture, from the economy to the latest viral videos—all while facing the reality that race matters to today’s news.

s Movement Notes, by Colorlines Publisher and ARC President Rinku Sen, focuses on 21st century racial justice and the ideas and solutions that drive it.

s Gender Matters, by reporter and columnist Akiba Solomon, highlights race, gender, the assaults on women’s reproductive healthcare and rights, and how women of color and poor women stand to lose the most.

s Voting Rights Watch, by investigative reporter Brentin Mock and community journalism coordinator Aura Bogado, details the attempts to limit the electoral power of people of color.

s Other Focus Areas INCLUDE !RTS  #ULTURE #RIMINAL *USTICE %CONOMY %DUCATION Health, Immigration, Media, Politics, Youth.

Colorlines.com is published by the Applied Research Center (ARC), a thirty-year- old, national racial justice organization. ARC advances racial justice through media, research, and leadership development.

ARC and Colorlines work together in various ways: s 2EPORTING ON THE NEWS OF THE DAY FROM A RACIAL JUSTICE PERSPECTIVE #OLORLINES actively reframes the public conversation and brings stories to light that haven’t been told.

s #OLORLINES REPORTS ON !2#S CUTTING EDGE ORIGINAL RESEARCH MAKING IT ACCESSIBLE TO a wider audience, connecting it to current events, and highlighting the stories of people most impacted.

Please visit us at www.colorlines.com s #OLORLINES MODELS ITS ETHOS THAT hRACE MATTERSv THROUGH ITS POLICIES AND PRACTICES and follow us on Facebook As part of the Drop the I-Word Campaign, Colorlines adopted a style guide that www.facebook.com/colorlines eliminates the widespread usage of the inhumane and racially derogatory word and on Twitter @colorlines. Sign up to “illegal” in reference to immigrants as a way to prevent further punitive and racist receive Colorlines Direct, a weekly email public policies. Many other media outlets have followed suit. digest of key stories at www.colorlines. com/getemails. Investigative reporting #OLORLINES WAS FOUNDED IN  BY !2# AND THE #ENTER FOR 4HIRD 7ORLD /RGANIZING is costly. Please consider supporting which merged two existing publications to create a new quarterly magazine, with Colorlines with a donation at Bob Wing and Jeff Chang as Executive and Associate Editors. www.colorlines.com/donate.

36 FACING RACE: A National Conference APPLIED RESEARCH CENTER (ARC) ENVISIONS A VIBRANT WORLD IN WHICH PEOPLE OF ALL RACES CREATE, SHARE AND ENJOY RESOURCES AND RELATIONSHIPS EQUITABLY, UNLEASHING INDIVIDUAL POTENTIAL, EMBRACING COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITY AND GENERATING GLOBAL PROSPERITY.

WE STRIVE TO BE A LEADING VALUES-DRIVEN SOCIAL JUSTICE ENTERPRISE WHERE THE CULTURE AND COMMITMENT CREATED BY OUR MULTI-RACIAL AND DIVERSE STAFF SUPPORTS INDIVIDUAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL EXCELLENCE AND SUSTAINABILITY. 1981

The Appliedturns Research 30 Center this (ARC) year,

and you’re invited to celebrate with us!

SUPPORT ARC’S NEXT 30 YEARS! 2012Help ARC to continue to build awareness, solutions, and leadership for racial justice over the next 30 years! Give today at arc.org/donate, or stop by the ARC information table to make a donation.

Celebrating 30 Years of Advancing Racial Justice!

Racial Justice Through Media, Research and Leadership Development