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Dear Friend,
In just two weeks, on Saturday September 25th, Race Forward will present #RaceAnd: Our Present, Our Future, Race Forward’s first intergenerational event of its kind. This dynamic event has been designed by youth and young adult activists and will highlight the critical role they play using organizing, art, cultural, narrative, and policy strategies to strike powerful blows to structural racism in the United States. During the conference, seasoned activists will work alongside youth activists to develop strategies for continuing the global movement to defend Black Lives.
Important update: Tickets are available at early bird prices and we have a limited number of scholarships available for youth who are organizers or are interested in racial justice work. Please email [email protected] for more information.
#RaceAnd: Our Present, Our Future will be headlined by Isra Hirsi, co-founder and co-executive director of the United States Youth Climate Strike, and the daughter of U.S Congresswoman Ilhan Omar. Isra is a leading climate justice activist working at the forefront of building power to positively impact our world. Isra will be talking on the main stage with another special guest, Alex Golden-Wolf, a two-spirit indigenous land defender of the White Earth Nation who has been working on the frontlines of the Stop Line 3 efforts.
WATCH: Our Present, Our Future: Declaration of Youth by Trinity Miracle
Conference attendees will have the opportunity to participate in thought-provoking and solution-driven intergenerational dialogues during breakout sessions which will include:
- Media Justice & Narrative: Cultivating Power and Building Towards Liberation
- Foster Power: Foster Youth Organizing for Radical Change
- By Young People, For All People (A timeline of youth-led movements in history)
- Take Space, Make Space: A Teach-In for Decision Makers
- Storytelling: A Form of Resistance
- The Newest Abolitionists: Youth Organizing for Police Free Schools
| Who should attend:
- Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and Asian American & Pacific Islander youth and young adult (13-25) organizers, activists, culture bearers, artists, and creators working on the frontline of the racial justice movement both locally and nationally.
- Adults working in the racial justice movement as an organizer, activist, policy advocate, race communicator, artists, creative, trainer, or educator.
- Teachers and education administrators at any grade level looking for inspiration and resources to advance a racial justice curriculum.
- Those engaged in philanthropy with a desire to learn more about the critical role youth and young adults are playing in advancing racial justice.
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