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

all Conference Sessions

Session Date & Time Speaker(s) Type Track
The Need for a Racial Justice Intervention in Education Reform - Chela Delgado, Judith Browne Dianis, Hany Khalil, Julianne Hing Breakout Session Organizing and Advocacy
Racing Up Your Movement - Malkia Cyril, Saru Jayaraman, Miriam Yeung, Paris Hatcher Breakout Session Organizing and Advocacy
The Difference It Can Make: Strategic Research Capacity in Community Campaigns - Maurice Weeks, Jose Lopez, Connie Razza Breakout Session Research and Policy
Institutionalizing Racial Equity and Advancing Positive Racial Impacts - Terrence Keleher, Dominique Apollon, Jermaine Toney, Julie Nelson Breakout Session Research and Policy
How Can White People Get More Whites Showing Up for Racial Justice? - Dara Silverman, Rachel McCoullough, Sean O'Neill, Carla Wallace Breakout Session Organizing and Advocacy
Queer and Trans People of Color Art Saves Lives: Testimonies on Pasts, Presents, and Future - Cherry Galette, Nia King, Luna Merbruja, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Breakout Session Arts, Culture, and Media
Racial (In)Justice in the Post 9/11 Era - Deepa Iyer, Linda Sarsour, Jill Garvey, Suman Raghunathan Breakout Session Organizing and Advocacy
Race Peace - Carlton Turner, Hannah Pepper-Cunningham, Melisa Cardona, Joanna Russo Breakout Session Arts, Culture, and Media
Collaborating for Racial Justice: How Organizing and Policy Groups Are Working Together in Texas - Madison Sloane, Chrishelle Palay, Tarsha Jackson Breakout Session Organizing and Advocacy
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
Banning the Box – Leading with Race - Patricia Lally, Justin Terrell Breakout Session Organizing and Advocacy
Violence Reduction Through Cross-Cultural Leadership Development - Virginia Lee, Arturo Ybarra, Andre Christian Breakout Session Organizing and Advocacy
Olivia Pope Notwithstanding: Strategies to Transform a TV Landscape Causing Everyday Harm to Black People - Arisha Hatch, dream hampton, Victoria Rowell, Emir Lewis, Issa Rae Breakout Session Arts, Culture, and Media
Race on the playing field - David Zirin, Robert Holden, Jamilah King, Jeff Chang Breakout Session Arts, Culture, and Media
Opportunities under Obamacare to Tackle Racial Disparities in Health: bringing the fight for access and care to your home state. - LeeAnn Hall, Jill Reese Breakout Session Research and Policy
Building Anti-Racist Schools: Strategies to Talk About Race and Racism - Laura Shmishkiss, Bianca Anderson Breakout Session Organizing and Advocacy
One Room, Many Voices: Planning for Cross-Language Participation - Alena Marie, Lena Moran Breakout Session Organizing and Advocacy
The role of art and culture in the class struggle - Jose Jorge Diaz, Deymirie Hernandez, Greg Jobin-Leeds Breakout Session Arts, Media, and Culture
Our Hidden Brain: Keys to Interrupting the Impact of Implicit Bias - hugh vasquez, Kathleen Osta Breakout Session Research and Policy
The Business of Racial Justice - Melinda Weekes-Laidlow, Hosan Lee Breakout Session Arts, Media, and Culture
United for Human Dignity: Fighting the Mass Criminalization of our People - Liliana Segura, Zachary Norris, paulina helm-hernandez, Breon Wells Breakout Session Research and Policy
#OurNeighborhoods: Sharing Policies for Anti-Displacement & Equitable Development - Seema Agnani, Sacajawea Saki Hall Breakout Session Organizing and Advocacy
The Performing Justice Project: Facing Race with Youth and Communities - Megan Alrutz, Lynn Hoare, Briana Barner, Courtney McEniry Breakout Session Arts, Media, and Culture
Ovarian Psycos - Race Flicks Arts, Media, and Culture
In Pursuit of Educational Equity: Building Healthy Living and Learning Communities - Cassie Schwerner, Zakiyah Ansari Breakout Session Research and Policy
The ICK FACTOR: How 2 Isms and 2 Phobias Keep HIV Rates Rising - John Trimble, Bre Campbell, Michael Hickerson Breakout Session Organizing and Advocacy
Racial Equity Plans: How to Develop Action Plans that Drive Systemic Change - Simran Noor, Ryan Curren Breakout Session Research and Policy
Raising Funds for Racial Justice - Maria Dautruche, Veronica Garcia, Aimee Walker, Brent Swinton Breakout Session Organizing and Advocacy
Find Your Light: Intergenerational QTPOC Arts Resistance - Maria Christina Rangel (Cherry Galette), Charles Rice-Gonzalez, Devi K, Garciela Sánchez Breakout Session Arts, Media, and Culture
My Existence is Political: Black Feminist Freedom Dreams in the Incarceration Capital of the World - Desiree Evans, Mwende Katwiwa Breakout Session Organizing and Advocacy
Decolonizing Gender: Bringing Empire into the Conversation - Malcolm Shanks, Mickyel Bradford Breakout Session Arts, Media, and Culture
Choice Points in Speculative Fiction: Creative Storytelling for Systems Change - Nayantara Sen, Channing Kennedy Breakout Session Arts, Media, and Culture
Lead Large Scale Campaigns to Harness Collective Power and Not Be Tokenized: The Inside/Outside Game - Jahmese Myres, Myani Gilbert Breakout Session Organizing and Advocacy
Dismantling Mass Incarceration: Strategies to Fight Back Against Prison Profiteering - Danny Cendejas, Amanda Aguilar-Shank Breakout Session Organizing and Advocacy
Olympic Pride, American Prejudice - Deborah Riley Draper Race Flicks Arts, Media, and Culture
Solidarity with Standing Rock - Judith LeBlanc, Oliver Semans Breakout Session Organizing and Advocacy
Putting Race at the Center of the Next Economy - Nwamaka Agbo, Zachary Norris Breakout Session Organizing and Advocacy
OUR MPLS: A Community-Led City Report Card on Racial Equity - Vina Kay, Neeraj Mehta, Ashley Fairbanks Breakout Session Research and Policy
Black Trans Everything!: Cultivating a Culture of Resilience - Holiday Simmons, Toni-Michelle Williams Breakout Session Research and Policy
The War on Terror, 15 Years Later - Deepa Iyer, Kalia Abiade, Arjun Sethi, Asma Elhuni Breakout Session Organizing and Advocacy
Breaking It Down: Using Systems Thinking to Address Structural Racism - Curtis Ogden, Andrew Grant-Thomas Breakout Session Organizing and Advocacy
Ink and Liberation: Superheroes, Comic Books and Racial Justice - Jamila Brown, Regine Sawyer, Ivan Velez, Jr. Breakout Session Arts, Media, and Culture
RJ SQUARED! Exploring the Connections Between Reproductive Justice and Racial Justice - Mateo Medina, Monica Simpson, Loretta Ross Breakout Session Organizing and Advocacy
Raza Que Raza: The state of Latinx Racial Justice - Janvieve Williams Comrie, Maegan Ortiz, paulina helm-hernandez Breakout Session Research and Policy
From Ears to Empathy to Activism: Audio for Activists - Will Coley, Danielle Sykes Breakout Session Arts, Media, and Culture
An effective, inclusive democracy? Launching a Racial Equity Initiative in Your City - Julie Nelson, Glenn Harris Breakout Session Research and Policy
Achieving Racial Equity Initiative: Changing the Landscape in California - Megan McClaire, Jamila Loud, Pamela Stephens, Dondy Marie Moreland Breakout Session Research and Policy
Management with Anti-Oppression Values: Practical Tools for Project and People Management with a Racial Equity Lens - Bex Ahuja, Tasia Smith Breakout Session Organizing and Advocacy
Increased Activist Philanthropy: What’s Working for Racial Justice Movement Building and What’s Challenging - Lori Villarosa, María Poblet, Ingrid Benedic Breakout Session Organizing and Advocacy
Changing the Race Dance - Soyinka Rahim, Marquetta Dupree Breakout Session Arts, Media, and Culture
Digital Jim Crow: Hi-Tech Policing, Racism and Resistance in the 21st Century - Malkia Cyril, Hamid Khan, Joseph Torres Breakout Session Organizing and Advocacy
Building Solidarity for Food and Land Sovereignty - Amy Laura Cahn, Kirtrina Baxter Breakout Session Organizing and Advocacy
Waging a Struggle for Immigrants’ Rights in Georgia - Raymond Partolan, Azadeh Shahshahani, Adelina Nicholls Breakout Session Organizing and Advocacy
Breaking the Cycle of Racial Trauma - Jerry Tello, Puni Kalra, Malcolm Shanks, Nicole Davis Breakout Session Arts, Media, and Culture
Visions From The Inside - Julio Salgado, Sonia Guiñansaca Breakout Session Arts, Media, and Culture
America Divided: The Class Divide - Race Flicks Arts, Media, and Culture
Second Class Water: The business of water and the politics of water infrastructure in our communities - Brandi Collins-Dexter, Crystal Williams, Dorthea Thomas, Art Reyes, Carrie Sloan Breakout Session Organizing and Advocacy
Systemic Solutions to a Segregated Economy in the 21st Century - Dominique Apollon, Lola Smallwood Cuevas, Evelyn Rangel Medina Breakout Session Research and Policy
The Revolution Will Be Televised: How Social Justice Advocates Can Leverage The Promise of Pop Culture to Create Real Change - Julia Yang-Winkenbach, Brian Walker, Tony Weaver, Jr. Breakout Session Arts, Media, and Culture
Mobilizing Black Women and Girls in the Movement for Black Lives - Jamia Wilson, Joanne N. Smith, Eesha Pandit, Farah Tanis Breakout Session Organizing and Advocacy
Building Community and Civic Power for Equitable Development - Dawn Phillips, Nathaniel Smith, Dwayne Marsh Breakout Session Research and Policy
Formations at the intersections of Black, Immigrant, Queer and Trans Intersections - paulina helm-hernandez, Mary Hooks Breakout Session Organizing and Advocacy
Mass Story Lab: stories as a tool for building a world beyond prisons - Sharda Sekaran, Marissa Johnson Breakout Session Arts, Media, and Culture
Van Jones Hosts Tech Leaders' Panel on Diversity and Tech - Felix Flores Breakout Session Arts, Media, and Culture
Circle Up! - Nyoka Acevedo, Whitney Richards-Calathes Breakout Session Organizing and Advocacy
Arts at the Intersection: Artistic Praxis for Racial, Social and Environmental Justice - Jayeesha Dutta, Yudith Nieto, Ann-Meredith Wootton Breakout Session Arts, Media, and Culture
Watching Back: Copwatching as a form of community protection and empowerment - Jackie Zammuto, David Whitt Breakout Session Organizing and Advocacy
Activating White Solidarity and Accountability for Racial Justice: Models and Challenges - Mary Ferguson, Amy Hunter, Coleen Murphy, Carla Wallace Breakout Session Organizing and Advocacy
SHORTS BLOCK - Michèle Stephenson Race Flicks Arts, Media, and Culture
Policy, People, and Practice: Using data to move towards racial equity within organizations - Angela Russell, Colleen Butler Breakout Session Research and Policy
Changing the Big Story on Race - Rinku Sen, MS, Malkia Cyril, Deepa Iyer Breakout Session Research and Policy
Deconstructing Consent in the Intersectional Social Justice Classroom - Bianca Laureano, Steph Wahome-Lassiter Breakout Session Arts, Media, and Culture
Multiply and Mobilize: Narratives of Resisting Divide and Conquer Tactics in Multiracial Work - Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, Manju Rajendran Breakout Session Organizing and Advocacy
It Takes Roots To Weather the Storm: Race and Resilience on Forefront of the Climate Justice Movement - Rosa Gonzalez, Sacajawea Saki Hall, Denise Abdul-Rahman Breakout Session Organizing and Advocacy
Using Organizing and Legal Tactics to Resist the Privatization of Public Schools - Jitu Brown, Judith Browne Dianis, Natasha Capers, Sharon Smith Breakout Session Organizing and Advocacy
Undocumented: The Art of Breaking Silence - Bee Nguyen, Christopher Perlera Breakout Session Organizing and Advocacy
Queer Muslim at the Intersections of Islamophobia and Homophobia - Mirna Haidar, Amanda Chahine Breakout Session Organizing and Advocacy
Reflective Democracy: A winning tactic for social justice - Jessica Byrd, Kevin Killer, Sayu Bhojwani Breakout Session Organizing and Advocacy
Catching the Spirit: A Cypher on Black Resilience - Taja Lindley, Che Johnson-Long, Jessica Valoris Breakout Session Arts, Media, and Culture
Books Can Change the World!: Publishing for Social Justice 101 - zakia henderson-brown, Benjamin Woodward Breakout Session Arts, Media, and Culture
Facing Race in Asian America - Soya Jung, Greg Cendana, Zon Moua Breakout Session Organizing and Advocacy
Building an Inside/Outside Strategy: How to Advance Racial Equity in Governance beyond the City and Community Divide - Andrea Manzo, Benjamin Duncan Breakout Session Research and Policy
Breathin': the Eddy Zheng Story - Eddy Zheng Race Flicks Arts, Media, and Culture
Discovering Your Personal Theology of Resistance/Racial Justice Activism - Marisol Caballero, Mykal Slack Breakout Session Organizing and Advocacy
Listening for A Change: Praxis for Healing, Hope, and Justice - Kanwarpal Dhaliwal, Joe Kim Breakout Session Research and Policy
Reporting on The State of the Black Woman - Renee Bracey Sherman, Raquel Willis, Jamilah Lemieux, Chanta Parker, Kwajelyn Jackson, Shanelle Matthews Breakout Session Arts, Media, and Culture
Blueprint for Belonging: Developing a Strategic Narrative to Combat Structural Racism - Stephen Menendian, Gerald Lenoir Breakout Session Research and Policy
Reporting and Writing News Through a Racial Justice Lens - Akiba Solomon, Kenrya Rankin, Yessenia Funes, Sameer Rao Breakout Session Arts, Media, and Culture
Anti-racism and Activist Media: Storytelling and Liberation - Sharmeen Khan Breakout Session Arts, Media, and Culture
Convictions: A Proxy for Race - Norris Henderson, Bruce Reilly Breakout Session Organizing and Advocacy
Liberatory Media Making in the South - Cortez Wright Breakout Session Arts, Media, and Culture
Police Brutality and the Social Contract: How official violence at the margins of society became a crisis at the heart of American democracy - Collette Flanagan, Dr. William Dulaney, Nicole Lee, John Fullinwider Breakout Session Organizing and Advocacy
Inheritance: Generations of Trauma and Resilience - Diana Marie Lee, Maya Hunter Breakout Session Arts, Media, and Culture
How to Use your TV: Using Small Screens to Move Racial Justice - Van Jones, Malkia Cyril, Bridgit Antoinette Evans, Brandon Andrews, Tracy Van Slyke, Sharda Sekaran Breakout Session Arts, Media, and Culture
Facing Race with Teens in Atlanta - Susan Landrum, Josie Footmon-Smith Breakout Session Arts, Media, and Culture
Shifting the Focus for Racial Justice - Terrence Keleher, ramesh kathanadhi Breakout Session Research and Policy
Succeeding WITH Race: Grassroots Parent Organizing for Systemic Change - Maisie Chin, Zakiya Sankara-Jabar, Gina Womack Breakout Session Organizing and Advocacy
Detroit: Ground Zero for a Divided America Bus Tour - Pre and Post-Conference Activity General
Detroit Narrative Agency - Race Flicks Arts, Media, and Culture