Facing Race: A National Conference in St. Louis, MO — November 20-22, 2024

Facing Race 2022

Phoenix, AZ

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Facing Race 2022: Phoenix Program cover with various faces amounts cactuses with yellow, orange, and pink sky.

Historian and National Award-winning bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist, Dr. Ibram X. Kendi presented the keynote at this Facing Race Confence in Phoenix, Arizona.

Breakout Sessions focused on these subject areas:

  • Narrative, Arts, and Culture
  • Institutional and Sectoral Change
  • Movement & Community Driven Solutions
  • Race Identities & Innovations

We also had Race Flicks and Racial Justice Reads presenting films and authors.

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Keynote Speaker(s)

Dr. Ibram X. Kendi

Highlighted Sessions


Breakout Sessions

Institutional and Sectoral Change

So You Want to Become an Anti-Racist Organization
Taking Care of Our Staff in a Capitalist, Ableist, and Racist System
Real Talk About Building Organizational Capacity for Racial Equity: A Peer Exchange
Taking Matters Into Our Own Hands: More Healing and Less Colonization in Behavioral Health
Transforming Public Health at the Intersection of Equity and Institutional Change
It’s Time for Action: a Non-profit Funder Membership Organization Leads a State-wide Strategy to Shift Philanthropy at Scale
Getting at the Root: Global Racial Justice, Truth Telling, and Accountability
The Color of Care Impact Campaign — Ending Racial Inequity in US Healthcare
Envisioning Racial Equity in Government
Let’s fight the return of the “Old Normal!” - Leading for Liberatory Systems and Racial Justice Transformation
The Trojan Horse in Social Movements: Transforming Power & Oppression the Nonprofit Industrial Complex
The Social Justice Spectrum: Building the World We Want from the World We Have
Building a Bigger We: The Multiracial Alliances Needed to Win
Geographic Tools to Advance Racial Justice at the Community Level
Inside / Outside Strategy: Building the Long Game for the Future We Seek
Paving the Path towards Justice: Implementing more Equitable Infrastructure Investment
Addressing Anti Blackness Teach-in
Racial Equity Roundtable: Cohorts to Catalyze Organizational Change
Organizational Culture Shift: The Importance of Power Mapping
Exploring and Understanding Anti-Blackness and White Supremacy As Illnesses: Finding A Cure for the Future
Supporting Transgender Youth
Countdown to Dystopia : Sonoran Desert Without Water
Embedding Equity within the American Medical Association
What if Philanthropy Were Community-Centered?
Building Strong Schools: Strategies and New Narratives to Confront White Nationalism in Schools

2022 Conference News

Support the Racial Justice Work of Local Arizona-based Organizations

BLM Phoenix Metro

Black Lives Matter Phoenix Metro is a Black, Queer, and Femme led organization, that centers Black people who are the most impacted and marginalized because we believe ALL BLACK LIVES MATTER.

Meet The Host Committee!

Facing Race would not be possible without the support of the local Host Committee.

In-Person Tickets Sold Out

Facing Race 2022 is excited to announce that due to overwhelming interest in attending FR2022 in-person in Phoenix, Arizona, In-Person tickets are sold out!