Meet thinkers, leaders, entertainers. Join workshops and discussion groups led by:
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Cory McCray- Maryland General Assembly, Senator
Co-Hosting Black Table Talk: Black Voices, Black Votes: A Discussion about Keeping Promises
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Bill Fletcher Jr.- Author and activist
Keynote Speaker: The Time Has Long Since Come to Stop Blaming Ourselves for being Oppressed
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Robin Williams- Director of Civil Rights, United Food and Commercial Workers Union
Co-Hosting Black Table Talk: Black and Brown in the Workplace
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Kwesi Chappin- Senior Political Director, Color of Change
Leading Workshop: Public Narrative
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Dr. Kristee Haggins- Co-founder, Safe Black Space
Leading Workshop: Healing Circles and Safe Black Space
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Jacqui Patterson- Director, NAACP Environmental and Climate Change Dept.
Co-Hosting Black Table Talk: Green Jobs, Black Work
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Erica Smiley- Executive Director, Jobs with Justice
Co-Hosting Black Table Talk: LGBTQ and Black at Work
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Neneki Lee- Director, Service Employees International Union
Co-Leading Workshop: I Am Not My Hair
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William Pritchett- Principal, Pritchett & Associates
Leading Workshop: Deconstructing White Supremacy Culture in our Workplaces and Organizations
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Dominic Moulden- Resource Organizer, One DC
Co-Leading Workshop: Making the Just City- Gentrification & Community Health
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Chenjerai Kumanyika- Rutgers University Journalism Professor and award-winning podcaster
Leading Workshop: Podcasting Power: Using Podcasting to Amplify Hidden Histories, Contemporary Struggles and the Political Power of Black Worker Voices
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Janel Bailey- Director, Los Angeles Black Worker Center
Leading Workshop: Economy Through a Black Lens
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Lenora Knowles- Baltimore Black Workers Center
Co-Leading Workshops: Know Your Rights and Reversing Runaway Inequity
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Carmen Berkeley- Senior Associate, Civitas Public Affairs Group, DJ
Co-Leading Workshop: How to Clap Back & Not Lose Your Job
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Gioncarlo Valentine- Award Winning Photographer and Baltimore Native
Leading Workshop: Making Art While Black
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Phela Townsend- Doctoral Student, Rutgers University
Co-Leading Workshop: Black Votes Matter
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Lady Brion- International spoken word artist and Baltimore native
Opening Performer & Leading Workshop: From a Burning CVS to a Phoenix Rising
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Alyxandra Goodwin, ACRE– Research Analyst
Leading Workshops: Making Moves to Move Baltimore and
Workers, Women & Finance
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Nzingha Hooker- Senior Attorney, National Employment Law Project
Co-Leading Workshop: Best Practices for Working Together
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Rebecca Dixon- Chief of programs, National Employment Law Project
Co-Leading Workshop: Best Practices for Working Together
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Serita El Amin- Organizer, One DC
Co-Leading Workshop: Making the Just City- Gentrification & Community Health
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Yasmine Pauling- Political and Policy Fellow, The Sunrise Movement
Co-Leading Workshop: The New Green Deal
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Aisha Satterwhite- Director, coworker.org
Leading Workshop: Dancing the Gig
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Zaki Smith- The Next 100
Leading Workshop: The Silent Sentence
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Sunu Chandy- Legal Director, National Women’s Law Center
Co-Hosting Black Table Talk: LGBTQ and Black at Work
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Neidi Dominguez- International Union of Painters and Allied Trades
Co-Hosting Black Table Talk: Black and Brown in the Workplace
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Joan Joans- Acting Director, National LGBTQ Workers Center
Co-Hosting Black Table Talk: LGBTQ and Black at Work
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Erika Symmonds- Director, Workforce Development, GRID Alternatives
Co-Leading Workshop: The New Green Deal and
Co-Hosting Black Table Talk: Green Jobs, Black Work
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Lester Spence- Author and Johns Hopkins Professor
Co-Hosting Black Table Talk: Knocking the Hustle
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Clair Watson-Minson- Workforce strategist, ABC
Co-Hosting Black Table Talk: Knocking the Hustle
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Antwain Jordan- Baltimore Algebra Project
Leading Workshop: Young, Gifted, Black + Unemployed in Baltimore
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Nakisha Lewis- AFL-CIO
Moderating Black Table Talk: Black Voices, Black Votes: A Discussion about Keeping Promises
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Reena Doyle- California Teacher’s Association
Leading Workshop: Mitigating Your Blackness at Work: A Harmful Survival Technique
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Destiney Lee- The Sunrise Movement
Co-Leading Workshop: The New Green Deal
Special Guests include:
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Kevin Wilson Jr. – Academy Award nominated filmmaker
“My Nephew Emmett”
Black Film Festival: Director’s Q&A
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Britni Joy Matila- Mrs. Maryland ABN 2019
Special Performances By:
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Lethal Ladies of Baltimore- Leadership School for Young Women Step Team
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Charisa the Violin Diva