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

Mia Birdsong

Next River
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Author of How We Show Up and founding Executive Director of Next River, Mia Birdsong is a pathfinder and futurist who reconnects us with our forgotten wisdom and practices of our collective liberation. She brings her contagious curiosity to her writing, interviews, and public conversations. Mia champions the inherent worthiness of people in both her podcast series More Than Enough and her TED talk on The Story We Tell About Poverty Isn’t True. Her most recent work, Freedom’s Revival: Research from the Headwaters of Liberation, charts the interconnected nature of “freedom.”

Instagram: @ miabirdsong