The racial economic justice reunion you can’t miss.
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John,
T-12 days until we gather in Atlanta and we have major updates on sessions, chances to connect, dynamic new speakers, and evening celebrations! We’ve extended registration until this Friday, so take advantage of this last window to sign up and join all the exciting offerings!
Sample Summit Itinerary for John
Sunday, Sept 18
Settle into the Atlanta area and check into the Hotel of Hope, the Hyatt Regency Atlanta, or another hotel option closeby. After dropping off your bags, explore Atlanta and all it has to offer with our round up of restaurants and a travel guide. Make sure to beat the Summit check-in lines by picking up your badge and surprise swag before 5 pm – as well as picking up a timed ticket for a tour of the National Center for Civil & Human Rights for Monday night!
Monday, Sept 19
8:00 AM – Prosperity Hub: Connect, Act, Impact, Discover. Grab a coffee and stop by the Prosperity Hub, your one-stop location to meet the Prosperity Now team and fellow Summit guests to connect, take action, discover our Scorecard, and make an impact towards our shared work to transform our economy to work for everyone.
9:00 AM – Prosperity University: Networks for Movement Building 101. Deep dive into breakfast and Prosperity Now’s Networks. Meet fellow Network members and Summit attendees, provide input on future Network activities and goals, and get ready to make the most of your Prosperity Summit experience. Choose one of four Networks for Movement Building “classes”, including: the Affordable Housing Network, Campaign for Every Kid’s Future, Financial Security Network, or the Taxpayer Opportunity Network.
10:00 AM – Opening Plenary: Economic Justice Rooted in History. Prosperity Summit 2022 kicks off with an opening session that will explore racial and ethnic economic justice rooted in history as we build the drumbeat forward. Panelists include Kevin Killer, Manuel Pastor, our very own Gary Cunningham, and COMMON! Will be sign language interpreted and live streamed on the mobile app.
11:30 AM – Lunch in the Exhibit Hall. Enjoy a hot lunch as you catch up with friends, build new relationships, and connect with our exhibitors.
12:45 PM – Workshop Sessions. Digest your meal and new ideas for economic justice at our first block of workshop sessions, including topics like:
- Partnering with Faith Leaders in the Community
- An Equity Approach to Community Prosperity
- How Integrated Health and Wealth Services Can Close the Racial Wealth Gap
- Building a Pipeline to Debt Security post Covid-19 Policy
- Launching a State or Local Baby Bonds Program
- A Policy Roadmap for Inclusive Entrepreneurship
- Demolishing Disabled Poverty
- Organizing for Climate Action and Economic Justice
- Using Community-led Grantmaking to Advance Housing Justice
- Strategies That Scale Black and Brown Small Businesses
3:15 PM – Main Stage Plenary: The Call to Community Centered Design. This featured main stage conversation will spotlight the Shared Prosperity Catalyst collaboration, highlighting the critical importance of centering the voices and lived experiences of communities in the design of product, program and policy solutions for economic equity and justice. We will hear from a range of voices including two entrepreneurs: Kortney Ziegler and LaToria Pierce, Eva Matos (Ideas42), and Mark Madrid (SBA), in a panel discussion moderated by Otis Rolley (Wells Fargo).
4:30 PM – Symposiums
The Path to Repair and Redress: Global Learning and Racial Justice Now. Canopy Collective presents a nuanced discussion about the movement for reparations for Black Americans in the age of our global reckoning with race. Moderated by reparations luminary Nkechi Taifa, our panelists will lead the audience members on a journey to learn the history of the movement, the positive public health implications of a successful reparations effort, what there is to be learned from global reparations efforts, the positive impacts on the racial wealth gap, and how reparations and transitional justice benefits everyone in our society.
The Equity Movement and Native Communities: Honoring and Observance. This session will include a discussion on the economic and historic implications of dispossessing Native Americans of their land and resources combined with recognition of the substantive work Native leaders are accomplishing in the asset building movement. Facilitated by former North Dakota Commissioner of Agriculture, Sarah Vogel, USDA General Counsel, Janie Hipp, and Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma Chief Executive Officer, Sarah EchoHawk, the Native panel discussion will delve into and honor the ongoing work and dedication carried out by trailblazing Native leaders of today. Far from waiting, these Native leaders are creating and implementing innovative economic empowerment solutions on behalf of Indigenous people.
7 – 11 PM – Tour of the National Center for Civil & Human Rights. Make sure to keep your timed ticket handy, as we head out for a museum outing to cap off an inspiring first day.
Tuesday, Sept 20
7:45 AM – Breakfast in the Exhibit Hall. Get your caffeine fix and breakfast bites while you explore the exhibit hall -- and don't forget to stop by to peruse the Prosperity Hub if you didn’t get a chance to on Monday.
8:30 AM – Main Stage Plenary: Using Data to Advance Racial Wealth Equity. An important conversation with National Book Award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author, and antiracist scholar, Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, followed by a panel on the importance of data in racial economic justice policy and narrative change. Will be sign language interpreted and live streamed on our mobile app.
9:45 AM – 12:00 PM – Workshop Sessions. Explore collaborative workshop sessions, including topics like:
- Closing the Racial Wealth Gap through Employee Ownership in Black Communities
- Health, Equity and the EITC
- Designing Responsive & Responsible Cash Assistance Programs
- Why We Need Better Data to Close the Racial Wealth Divide
- Eliminating Discrimination in Housing Policy
- Increasing the Flow of Capital to Your Community
- Combating Harmful Poverty Narratives
- Financial Empowerment to Aid Re-entry
- Building Inclusive Ecosystems for Entrepreneurs
- Striving for Racial Equity in CSA Programs
- Building and Sustaining White Support for Reparations
12:00 PM – Lunch in the Exhibit Hall. Enjoy a hot lunch as you catch up with friends, build new relationships, and connect with our exhibitors.
12:45 PM – Main Stage Plenary: Big Ideas for Economic Equity. To address the racial wealth divide and to build to an economy that works for all, we need big, scalable ideas. This plenary will focus on local solutions that can be scaled, national proposals that will have the reach and wherewithal to transform, and insight from some of the leading voices, such as the New School’s Darrick Hamilton, and others in the field that will inspire practitioners everywhere. Will be sign language interpreted and live streamed on our mobile app.
This session is sponsored by JPMorgan Chase & Co
2:00 PM – Workshop Sessions. And the brainstorming to transform an economy that works for everyone continues with workshops on topics including:
- Shaping Change by Sharing our Stories
- A Study on Expanding Black & Hispanic Homeownership in Newark
- Centering Community to Advance Systems Change
- Exposing the Racial Inequities of the Tax Code
- Centering Racial Equity in the Fight for Community Power
4:40 PM – Symposiums
Federal Agency Forum on Consumer Solutions. This featured symposium will center on the critical role government plays in ensuring the equitable administration of government benefits and protections and how federal agencies can advance racial equity while carrying out their respective agency missions. During this symposium, attendees will hear from Kenneth Corbin, Commissioner, Wage and Investment Division and Chief Taxpayer Experience Officer at Internal Revenue Service; Desmond Brown, Assistant Director, Office of Consumer Education, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and DeAndra J. Cullen, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office of Policy, Legislative Initiatives & Outreach, HUD who will share information about agency initiatives, interagency collaborations, and partnership opportunities to increase access to and take-up of federal benefits.
Media Symposium: Sustaining Coverage for Racial and Economic Inequity in the Information Age.
5:45 PM – Street Fair Reception. Join us for the signature Prosperity Summit Street Fair and reception in the Expo, celebrating the food and flavors of Atlanta.
This session is sponsored by Intuit.
8:00 PM – Club Prosperity. Dance for a brighter future at our special evening celebration!
Wednesday, Sept 21
8:00 AM – Breakfast in the Exhibit Hall. Join us for our last breakfast, do one last sweep of the exhibit hall, and visit your favorite stations at the Prosperity Hub one last time.
9:00 AM – Main Stage Plenary: Economic Equity Across Sectors. The plenary leverages the inflection point and the opportunities for transformative systems change that have come over the past 2 years in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and its economic impact as well as the civil unrest in response to the murders of Black and Brown individuals at the hands of law enforcement officers. Each of these-- and a plethora of other indicators that have been magnified in this moment-- have served as a continuous reminder of the deeply entrenched inequity in our systems.
10:15 AM – Final Workshop Sessions. March on for economic justice with other advocates in the last several workshops on topics including:
- The Power of Narrative in Systems Change
- Award Winning Models for Equitable Small Business Lending
- Why Integrating Health and Financial Services Boosts Overall Wellbeing
- Creating Equitable Access to Credit
- Taxing Wealth to Advance Gender and Racial Equity
- Housing Initiatives in Native Communities
11:15 AM – Marching Forward Lunch. Grab lunch and network, share, and collaborate with colleagues from across the country on how we can build collective power in the year ahead.
12:30 PM – Closing Plenary: Democracy, Economic Justice & Our Call to Action. This panel explores how we can make democracy in states and throughout the nation vibrant and inclusive, and the impact that it can have on economic justice and full economic opportunity. The panelists represent institutions and organizations committed to democratic inclusion, in different ways and at different levels of government. Will be sign language interpreted and live streamed on the mobile app.
1:30 PM – Prosperity Encore. Please join us for a special 50th anniversary concert and celebration with SWEET HONEY IN THE ROCK®. Will be sign language interpreted and live streamed on the mobile app.
Depart Atlanta and get ready for our next Prosperity Summit in 2024!
Are you pumped yet? The deadline to register has been extended to Friday at midnight, so there’s still time to secure your spot!
Looking forward to marching on together in Atlanta,
Your 2022 Prosperity Summit Team
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