Facing Race is back! This time in Raleigh, NC — November 12-14, 2026.

all Conference Sessions

Session Date & Time Speaker(s) Type Track
Facing Race on Xenophobic Hate Crimes - Deepa Iyer, Linda Sarsour, Rajdeep Singh Breakout Session Research and Policy
The Roots of Racism: Say What? - Sheila K Collins, Soyinka Rahim Breakout Session Arts, Culture, and Media
Defending Democracy: How to Fight Off Voter ID, Purges and Other Attacks - Katherine Culliton-Gonzalez, Arisha Hatch, Richard Kim Breakout Session Research and Policy
Can You Hear Me Now? How Activists and Artists are Rebuilding the Media - Josh Begley, Amalia Deloney, Adriel Luis Plenary Session Arts, Culture, and Media
From Brooklyn to Baltimore: the Fight for Fair Development - Rachel Falcone, Luis Larin, Michael Premo, Lucas Shapiro Breakout Session Organizing and Advocacy
Talking About Race: Racial Justice Through Media, Collaboration and Community Conversation - Robert Gray, Lisa Abbott Breakout Session Arts, Culture, and Media
Raising Funds for Racial Justice - Saru Jayaraman, Marjorie Fine Breakout Session Organizing and Advocacy
Organizing Racial Justice Philanthropy - Dennis Quirin, Lisa Ranghelli, Lori Villarosa Breakout Session Organizing and Advocacy
Advancing Health Equity Using Health Impact Assessment, Community Organizing and Advocacy - Lili Farhang, Alexi Freeman, Ruth Lindberg Breakout Session Research and Policy
We Wear the MassQ: One Artist's Dis-covery of Face, Race and Ritual in a Digital Age - Daniel Callahan Breakout Session Arts, Culture, and Media
Consumer Based Strategies for Advancing Racial Justice - Lisa Castellanos, Tracy Van Slyke, Jamal Watkins Breakout Session Organizing and Advocacy
National Student Bill of Rights - Niqua Douglas, Magda Phillips, Lester Spence Breakout Session Research and Policy
Addressing Racism Using Theater of the Oppressed - S. Leigh Thompson Breakout Session Arts, Culture, and Media
Internalizing Racial Equity Institutionally - Gita Gulati-Partee, Maggie Potapchuk Breakout Session Organizing and Advocacy
Racial Profiling: Every Which Way But Loose - Linda Sarsour, Kung Li Kung, Jose Lopez, Sian O'Faolain Breakout Session Organizing and Advocacy
Energy Democracy for All - Shannon Bade, Anthony Giancatarino, Emily Kirsch Breakout Session Research and Policy
Race Flicks 2- Harvest of Empire - Breakout Session Arts, Culture, and Media
DREAMers and Freedom Riders: Racial Justice Across Generations - Sam Fulwood III, Loan Tran, Moses Newson, Lenora Taitt-Magubane Breakout Session Organizing and Advocacy
Systems Change: Inside and Outside Strategies - Nashira Baril, Glenn Harris, Nicole Porter Breakout Session Research and Policy
From the Trenches: Stories on Race, Dating and Love - Samhita Mukhopadhyay, Deanna Zandt, Jamia Wilson Breakout Session Arts, Culture, and Media
Better Together: Bridging LGBTQ Rights & Racial Justice - paulina helm-hernandez, Aisha Moodie-Mills, Robert Espinoza, CJ Frosch Breakout Session Organizing and Advocacy
Caring Across Generations: Organizing Across Lines of Race, Class, Generation, Ability, Language and Communities - Jessica Brill Ortiz, Sarita Gupta, Trishala Deb Breakout Session Research and Policy
Using Social Media to Connect Communities and Make an Impact--and Measure It! - Deanna Zandt Breakout Session Arts, Culture, and Media
Dismantling the School to Prison Pipeline - Tekoah Flory, Laura Lemus, Scott Roberts Breakout Session Research and Policy
Like Racism, But Funnier: Social Change Through Internet Jokes - W. Kamau Bell, Negin Farsad, Samhita Mukhopadhyay Breakout Session Arts, Culture, and Media
SURJ: Strategies for Engaging White People in Racial Justice - Dara Silverman, Carla Wallace, Dottye Burt-Markowitz Breakout Session Organizing and Advocacy
Toward a Multiracial Anti-Death Penalty Movement - Sandra Jones, Lawrence G. Hayes, Barbara Lewis Breakout Session Research and Policy
Cross Racial Alliance Building for Social Justice and Immigrant Rights - Abraham Paulos, Opal Tometi, Erika Almiron, Gustavo Andrade Breakout Session Organizing and Advocacy
New Rules: Organizing to End the Push-out Crisis with Solutions Not Suspensions - Maisie Chin, Tina Dove Breakout Session Research and Policy
Tell Your Story, Move Your Campaign - Doyle Canning, Babatunde Salaam, Neomara Serges Breakout Session Arts, Culture, and Media
Launching Proactive Policy Agendas for Racial Equity - Vina Kay, Jermaine Toney, Alheli M. Herrera Breakout Session Research and Policy
Race Flicks 3- New Lens, Youth Produced Films - Breakout Session Arts, Culture, and Media
Wolves in Sheeps' Clothing: Sexual Health as Wedge Issues in Communities of Color and Among Young People - Pamela Merritt, Aimee Thorne-Thomsen, Miriam Yeung Breakout Session Organizing and Advocacy
Where is the Color in Occupy? Race, Class and Gender in the Occupy Movement - Kate Khatib, Christine Schweidler, María Poblet, Janée Woods Weber Breakout Session Research and Policy
Building a 21st Century Labor Movement - Dorian Warren, Kim Fellner, Ai-jen Poo, Saket Soni, James Thindwa Breakout Session Organizing and Advocacy
Art & Agitation: On the Power of Cultural Strategy - Favianna Rodriguez, Julio Salgado, Jose Antonio Vargas, Kalima Young Breakout Session Arts, Culture, and Media
How to Talk About Race in the Classroom - J'nelle Bobb-Semple, Jaime-Jin Lewis Breakout Session Organizing and Advocacy
Criminalizing Youth in Baltimore: Race, Class and Gender in Public Space - Bakari Jones, Diamond Sampson Breakout Session Research and Policy
Words Matter: Organizing Against Bully Language - Lamont Carey, Tiffani Sykhammountry, Jennifer Pozner Breakout Session Organizing and Advocacy
Reproductive Rights at the Intersection of Class, Race and Immigration Status - Jessica González-Rojas, Marielena Hincapie, Miriam Yeung Breakout Session Research and Policy
What's Faith Got To Do With It? - Breakout Session Arts, Culture, and Media
Campaign Weaving and Movement Building: Challenging the Incarceration Nation through Creative Action - Cherrell Brown, Steven Renderos, Silky Shah, Zachary Norris Breakout Session Research and Policy
No Budget? No Problem! 2013's New Tools For Creating Content and Telling Your Story - Will Coley, Franchesca Ramsey Breakout Session Arts, Culture, and Media
From Colorblindness to Equity-Mindedness: Breaking Through Bias to Build Racial Justice - Breakout Session Organizing and Advocacy
Girl/Future: Youth Activism and Ending Gendered Violence - Teana Gamill, Sangeetha Ravichandran, Larrinita Starks Breakout Session Organizing and Advocacy
The Faces of Development: Moving from Racial and Class Inequity - Lea Keal, Marisela Gomez, Lester Spence Breakout Session Research and Policy
Race Flicks 4- Wildness - Breakout Session Arts, Culture, and Media
Make Them Pay: Ways to Hold Insurance Companies Accountable to Addressing Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities - Danisha Christian, Jill Reese, Ron Williams Breakout Session Research and Policy
Storytelling for Racial Justice - Rinku Sen, MS, john powell Breakout Session Arts, Culture, and Media
What's the Future of College for Students of Color - Tiffany Loftin, Tressie McMillan Cottom Breakout Session Organizing and Advocacy
How Big Money Politics Holds Back Racial Justice - john powell, Jodeen Olguín-Tayler Breakout Session Research and Policy
Stepping Up Cultural Strategy: How Can Racial Justice Rise Above the Noise? - Will Coley, Julio Salgado Breakout Session Arts, Culture, and Media
Organizing for Equitable Development and Housing Justice in Working Class Communities of Color - Rachel Laforest, Dawn Phillips, Demetria McCain Breakout Session Organizing and Advocacy
Hard Labor: Inside the New Movement for a Higher Minimum Wage and the Freedom to Unionize - Colby Harris, Douglas Williams, Patricia Cruz Breakout Session Arts, Culture, and Media
Moving the Race Conversation Forward - Rinku Sen, MS, Jay Smooth, Sally Kohn, Alexis McGill-Johnson Breakout Session Research and Policy
Marijuana, Racism, and the Future of Reform - gabriel sayegh, Deon Haywood, Ana Yáñez-Correa, Kenneth Glasgow Breakout Session Organizing and Advocacy
Reimagining the Bible Belt: Race, Religion and Power in Dallas and the South - Lydia Bean, Danielle Ayers Breakout Session Organizing and Advocacy
Framing Issues with a Racial Equity Lens - Tammy Johnson, Lisa Abbott Breakout Session Arts, Culture, and Media
"Those Kinds of Kids": LGBTQ Youth of Color in the Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice Systems - Bernadette Brown, Natalíe Lorraine Ortega Breakout Session Research and Policy
Dreaming Change: Collective Sci Fi/Visionary Storytelling - adrienne maree brown Breakout Session Arts, Culture, and Media
In the Era of Obamacare Healthcare Coverage is a Matter of Race and Class in Georgia - Tamieka Atkins, Quita Tinsley, Shan Moten Breakout Session Research and Policy
Organizing Across Cultures for Immigration Reform - Mehrdad Azemun, Tia Oso, Rosa Calderon Breakout Session Organizing and Advocacy
Moving Foundations Toward Racial Justice Grantmaking - Lori Villarosa, David L. Neal, Caronina Grimble, Sandra Witt Breakout Session Organizing and Advocacy
Public Health Research and Framing as Organizing and Advocacy Tools - Jonathan Heller, Phyllis Hill, Wendy Cervantes Breakout Session Research and Policy
Reclaiming Government: A Dialogue about the Intersection of Race, Ethnicity and the Public Sector’s Role in Advancing Equity - Anika Fassia, Anthony Giancatarino, Anne E. Price, Julie Rowe, Gabriela Sandoval Breakout Session Organizing and Advocacy
Enemies of the State: Surveillance of Communities of Color - Steven Renderos, Matt Cagle, Seeta Gangadharan, Hamid Khan Breakout Session Arts, Culture, and Media
Innovating for Health Equity in Dallas - Stephanie Farquhar, Summer Collins, Cheryl Mayo Williams, Tyson Bain Breakout Session Research and Policy
Queering Racial Justice Organizing in the South - Nayely Perez-Huerta, Jaison Gardner, Parker T. Hurley Breakout Session Organizing and Advocacy
Trailers, Tarps and Toxins - Interventions at the Intersection of Disaster Capitalism and Environmental Racism - Monique Harden, Thomas Dardar Jr., Juan Parras, Yudith Nieto Breakout Session Research and Policy
Reframing Stories from a Racial Justice Perspective - Aura Bogado, Julianne Hing, Rebekah Spicuglia Breakout Session Research and Policy
Complex Movements: connecting social movements, creative expression, and science - Sage Crump, Ilana Weaver, Carlos (L05) Garcia, Wesley Taylor Breakout Session Arts, Culture, and Media
Controlling Our Bodies, Taking Our Children: The Abortion/Adoption Nexus in Conservative Politics - T.F. Charlton, Dr. Andrea Smith, Kathryn Joyce, Lisa Marie Rollins Breakout Session Organizing and Advocacy
Racing the New Economy: A Long-Term Structural Reform Strategy for Structural Equity - Bree Carlson, Justin Terrell Breakout Session Organizing and Advocacy
The Beautiful Struggle: Towards A Multi-Faith Movement for Racial Justice - Melinda Weekes-Laidlow, Yavilah McCoy Breakout Session Organizing and Advocacy
Both/And/All- Applying Justice at the Intersections of Our Identities - Isa Noyola, Pramila Jayapal, Teresa C. Younger Breakout Session Organizing and Advocacy
Creative Convening: Moving Racial Equity Forward Through the Arts - Cassie Meador, Paloma McGregor Breakout Session Arts, Culture, and Media
After the Black President: Politics and the New Majority - Aimee Allison, Joaquín Guerra, Julie Martínez Ortega Breakout Session Organizing and Advocacy
Keeping It Unreal: Decoding Gender, Race and Reality TV--A Media Literacy Workshop - Jennifer Pozner, Sofia Quintero Breakout Session Arts, Culture, and Media
Kids, Race and Equity- Data and Tools for Child Wellness and Opportunity in Texas - Nonet Sykes, Ann Beeson, Sheila Craig Breakout Session Research and Policy
Get Yr Rights: Toolkits for Transforming Our Communities - Shaena Johnson, Mitchyll Mora Breakout Session Organizing and Advocacy
Listening for A Change - Kanwarpal Dhaliwal, Joe Kim Breakout Session Research and Policy
The Poem and Social Space - Ken Chen, Lupe Mendez, Janine Joseph, Randall Horton Breakout Session Arts, Culture, and Media
Break it Down! Deconstructing Power, Privilege and Oppression using Theatre of the Oppressed - S. Leigh Thompson, Charles R. Shealy Breakout Session Organizing and Advocacy
Why Tribal Sovereignty Matters - Carrie Garrow (Mohawk), Andrew Curley (Navajo) Breakout Session Arts, Culture, and Media
Implicit Bias: The State of Science and Moving From Research to Action - Cheryl Staats, Gabriella Celeste, Sharon Davies Breakout Session Research and Policy
Breaking Down the Racial Divide at Work: Tools and Stories that Inspire Action - Julia Sebastian, Jillian Medeiros, Ai-jen Poo, Ariel Jacobson, Sasha Hammad, Alicia Garza Breakout Session Research and Policy
Life Cycles of Inequity: A Colorlines Series on Black Men - Kai Wright, André Robert Lee Breakout Session Arts, Culture, and Media
Innovations in Housing Equity for Communities of Color - Jason Reece, Sarita Turner, LaShawn M. Hoffman Breakout Session Research and Policy
Building a Community Led Movement to End Mass Incarceration - Patrisse Cullors, DeAngelo Bester, Milan Alexander, Alicia Walters, Azadeh Zohrabi, Kennadi Robinson, Ashley Triggs Breakout Session Organizing and Advocacy
Internet Freedom, Racism, and Civil Rights in the 21st Century - Samala, Arturo Carmona, Brandi Collins-Dexter, Jessica Gonzalez, Joe Torres Breakout Session Arts, Culture, and Media
Reel Justice - Molly Murphy, Sonya Childress Breakout Session Arts, Culture, and Media
Transformative Approaches for Addressing Race, Healing and Taking Action for Equity in Schools - Jaime-Jin Lewis, LaShawn Routé Chatmon, Victor Cary, Laura Shmishkiss, Benny Vasquez Breakout Session Organizing and Advocacy
Rainbow Warriors: Lifting Up Queer and Trans Youth Resiliency - Deanna Gao, Chay Tadeo, Cecelia Kluding-Rodriguez, Denicia Cadena Breakout Session Arts, Culture, and Media
Using Systems Thinking to Address Structural Racism - Andrew Grant-Thomas, Curtis Ogden, Cynthia Silva Parker Breakout Session Organizing and Advocacy
Multiply and Mobilize: Resisting Divide and Conquer Tactics in Multiracial Work - Kiran Nigam, Jenna Peters-Golden, Rinku Sen, MS, Manuel Pastor, Lumumba Akinwole-Bandele, Linda Sarsour Breakout Session Organizing and Advocacy
Community Wealth-Building through Social Entrepreneurship - Hon. Chris Rabb Breakout Session Research and Policy
Equity is the Cure for Austerity: Framing the Case for an Equitable Economy - Anand Subramanian, Anat Shenker-Osorio, Sarah Treuhaft, Valerie Rawlston Wilson Breakout Session Arts, Culture, and Media
Change Culture, Change the World: An Introduction to Pop Culture Strategy for Social Movement - Bridgit Antoinette Evans Breakout Session Arts, Culture, and Media
The Pipeline from School to Economic Opportunity - Sharon Davies, Marc A. Nivet, Van Jones Breakout Session Research and Policy
Nuestro Texas: An Intersectional Approach to Reproductive Health as a Human Right - Lucy Felix, Katrina Anderson Breakout Session Organizing and Advocacy