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20th Annual Allied Media Conference

Welcome to the 20th Annual Allied Media Conference!

Browse all 300+ sessions below on our online schedule. Please note: bookmarking a session on our online schedule does not guarantee you a place in the session. All sessions are first come, first serve.

We offer a sliding scale registration rate so that the conference can be accessible to as many people as possible. Please support the AMC by giving generously with your registration contribution. Register here.

Arianne Graham

Peer Health Exchange
Vice President

Strategy and Innovation for non-profits, movements, equity organizations
Design & communications strategy, capacity for non-profits, new ventures, campaigns and progressive causes
Health equity, health education, healthcare, restorative justice, reproductive justice

11:00am

Holding Space Part I: Strategies for Anti-Oppressive Facilitation STATE HALL: Room 101Autumn Brown • Maryse Mitchell-Brody Communities of Practice: Creating Community Accountable Research STATE HALL: Room 116Qui Dorian Alexander • Diana Chandara • A.K. O’Loughlin • Noah NuhuBabuKubwa Isaiah Sims

12:45pm

Swords into Plowshares: Reclaim the Bible for Healing & Justice STATE HALL: Room 135SueAnn Shiah

2:00pm

BYP100 Presents The Black Joy Experience STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry CJonathan Lykes • JeNae Taylor Holding Space Part II: Facilitator Magic! STATE HALL: Room 101Autumn Brown • Maryse Mitchell-Brody Recipes of Resilience: Transforming Trauma with Food STATE HALL: Room 131Amanny Ahmad • Tara Rodríguez Besosa • Neftali Duran • Kate McCabe • Anya Peters

4:00pm

Surviving Impossible Times: Herbal Strategies for People of Color STUDENT CENTER: Room 025Carmen Malis King • Triana Kazaleh Sirdenis • Lottie Spady Politics of Erasure: Intentional Marketing of QTPOC STATE HALL: Room 125Jayson Douglas

7:30pm

Black and Brown Healing in the Wake of Climate Catastrophe CASS COMMONS: Memorial HallPuerto Rican Healing Justice Delegation

8:00pm

GET TO WERK The Marble BarTT the Artist • Stacye J and the Anthology of Booty • Miz Korona The Original AMC Karaoke + Bowling Party The Garden BowlJennyoke

10:00pm

Comedy Night Dream Cafe (Cass Cafe)Joe Aasim • Francesca Fiorentini • Luna Malbroux • Kai Quix • T. Wise

9:00am

Shaping Data, Shaping Power Community Arts AuditoriumSasha Costanza-Chock • Tawana Petty (she/her) • Ruha Benjamin • Mona Chalabi • Dr. Kortney Ryan Ziegler

11:00am

Black Futures: Monetizing the Scam STATE HALL: Room 127McKensie Mack • Elijah McKinnon Building a Freedom School Movement in Detroit STATE HALL: Room 116Piper Carter • Mike Doan • Amaniyea Ellis • Joy Ellis • Salima Ellis Cooperative Ecosystem: Lessons in Building Community Wealth STATE HALL: Room 113Margo Dalal • B. Anthony Holley • Meghan Sobocienski • Lucas Turner-Owens • Ed Whitfeld Decentralized Health Equity Model for LGBTQ+ Patients STATE HALL: Room 135Theodore Tinnell Designing Possibilities for the Wellbeing of Black Women STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry BDenise Shanté Brown • N'Deye Diakhate FEEST With Us! SHUTTLE STOP: Anthony Wayne + KirbyCamille Charles • Kyasia Gunter • Kit an' Kin • Tajjae Maycock • Yasmine Mercado • Quianna Minott • Jelani Norman • Jamisha Williams • Kashani Williams From Growing Our Economy to Growing Our Soul – East Side Detroit Tour. SHUTTLE STOP: Anthony Wayne + KirbyRichard Feldman

12:45pm

Digging out the Roots of Trauma: Healing our Relationship to Land STATE HALL: Room 135Leo Orleans Finding Yourself in the Break: Lessons in Black Jazz Meditation STUDENT CENTER: 020NIcole Campbell Public Space for All: Community Engagement in Downtown Detroit STATE HALL: Room 127Denise McGeen • Alana Tucker

2:00pm

Subversive Design: Exploring Power in Design Practice STUDENT CENTER: Room 285Julia Kong • Brooke Staton "How to Survive the End of the World" Live Podcast STATE HALL: Room 101Autumn Brown • adrienne maree brown • Zak Rosen

4:00pm

Emergent Strategy: Spells and Practices Times STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry Badrienne maree brown

6:00pm

Blackness and Afro Latinidad: Brujas Healing the Diaspora STATE HALL: Room 117Consuela Lopez • Antonio Rafael • Briana Urena-Ravelo Dear Black Women: The Power of Black Women Affirming Themselves STATE HALL: Room 127Florence Noel

7:00pm

Black Music The Baltimore GalleryDeon Jamar • Nicole Misha

8:00pm

DANCE DANCE (R)EVOLUTION MOCADBeige • K-HAND • Le1f • Oshun • Vespre • Miz Korona and the Korona Effect • Stacey HOTTWAXX Hale • Los Hermanos • DJ Pia

10:00pm

Portage Garage Sounds at the Dream Cafe Dream Cafe (Cass Cafe)Vinnie Massimino • Benjamin Kenjiro Saginaw • Zachary Shigeto Saginaw • Charles Trees

10:00am

We Are All Connected: Youth Bridging the Urban / Rural Divide STUDENT CENTER: Room 285Kendri Feliz • Emmanuel Garcia • Gabriel Martinez • Mary • Griselys Peña • Serenah Vaughan Altars: Rituals and Creation STATE HALL: Room 134olaronke akinmowo Five Miles of Freedom: African American History Tour in Detroit SHUTTLE STOP: Anthony + KirbyJamon Jordan

11:45am

Advance Your Work with Allied Media Projects STATE HALL: Room 118Tawana Petty (she/her) • Serena Maria Daniels • Levon Kafafian • Cayden Mak • Toni Moceri • Benito "Mav-One" Vasquez

3:00pm

Performing New Worlds Plenary and Closing Ceremony Celebration Community Arts AuditoriumUna Aya Osato • Ricardo Gamboa • Xandra Ibarra • Francesca Fiorentini

4:00pm

Closing Ceremony: Rituals to Return Community Arts Auditorium

6:00pm

Black Independence Celebration The Baltimore Gallery

6:30pm

Matriarchy in the Kitchen: Supper Club From Nowhere x Kit an Kin at Folk FOLK Detroit

8:00pm

Allied Ever After Dream Cafe (Cass Cafe)Beige • Nandi • Mike Medow