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

Alicia Walters

Forward Together
Alicia Walters staffs Echoing Ida as the Movement Building Director at Forward Together. She began Echoing Ida to showcase Black women's leadership, heighten their visibility, and create space for building authentic relationships and developing writing skills. As an organizer and policy advocate Alicia has worked to end the shackling of pregnant incarcerated women, address mass incarceration and the treatment of folks inside, combat the school to prison pipeline, ensure comprehensive sex education, and fiercely counter the manipulation of Black people's realities for political or financial gain.

Presentations from Facing Race 2014

Building a Community Led Movement to End Mass Incarceration

Research can be a vehicle for unearthing stories in order to fuel the resistance to the oppression we face. This workshop will explore how individuals and organizations throughout the country are examining and using community participatory research to illuminate and demystify the reality of the cradle to prison pipeline and the grave impacts of incarceration on individuals, families, and communities -- humanizing research and the lives of participants in the process. This highly interactive workshop is geared towards those who are actively engaged in working with young people and dismantling the prison industrial complex.
Speakers: Patrisse Cullors, DeAngelo Bester, Milan Alexander, Alicia Walters, Azadeh Zohrabi, Kennadi Robinson, Ashley Triggs