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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.

Irina Zadov

Chicago Park District
Senior Program Specialist
Chicago, IL

Irina Zadov is an artist, educator, and cultural organizer. A Soviet Jewish refugee, her practice explores the relationship between the individual and the collective, the home and the state, diasporic community and chosen family. She is passionate about healing justice, emergent strategy, trauma-informed pedagogy, and cultivating spaces that nurture personal and structural transformation.

11:00am EDT

Holding Space Part I: Strategies for Anti-Oppressive Facilitation STATE HALL: Room 101Autumn Brown • Maryse Mitchell-Brody

2:00pm EDT

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 Trauma Informed Impact Strategy STATE HALL: Room 127Sonya Childress • Twiggy Pucci-Garcon

6:00pm EDT

Opening Ceremony Detroit Film TheaterTarana Burke • Mariame Kaba

7:30pm EDT

I-Collective at Cass Cafe Dream Cafe (Cass Cafe)

9:00am EDT

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

11:00am EDT

StoryShift: Amplify, Resource & Support Accountable Storytelling STATE HALL: Room 134Noel Didla • Jayeesha Dutta • Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi • Yudith Nieto • Michael Premo Healing Uses of Plant Technology STUDENT CENTER: Room 285Karen L. Culpepper • Richael Faithful • Miriam Zoila Pérez Transforming Trauma: Youth-Led Social Justice Movements STATE HALL: Room 106Hasna Ghalib • Alex Kime • Ebere Oparaeke • Laila Pasha • Molly Pershin Raynor From Growing Our Economy to Growing Our Soul – East Side Detroit Tour. SHUTTLE STOP: Anthony Wayne + KirbyRichard Feldman

12:45pm EDT

Digging out the Roots of Trauma: Healing our Relationship to Land STATE HALL: Room 135Leo Orleans

2:00pm EDT

"How to Survive the End of the World" Live Podcast STATE HALL: Room 101Autumn Brown • adrienne maree brown • Zak Rosen Mawadisidiwag: They Visit Each Other SHUTTLE STOP: Anthony Wayne + KirbyThe Aadizookaan

4:00pm EDT

Emergent Strategy: Spells and Practices Times STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry Badrienne maree brown Joyful Resistance: Art and Protest in Defense of the Hood MCGREGOR: Room JChiResists and Barrios Against Displacement Dismantling Gender in Youth Spaces STATE HALL: Room 113Johanna Burgos • Nana Minder

5:30pm EDT

Kit an Kin at Cass Cafe Dream Cafe (Cass Cafe)

10:00am EDT

Altars: Rituals and Creation STATE HALL: Room 134olaronke akinmowo An Introduction to Pleasure Activism Community Arts Auditoriumadrienne maree brown

1:00pm EDT

Education for Abolition STATE HALL: Room 101adrienne maree brown • Mariame Kaba Mariposas & Unicorns: Narratives Defying Borders and Binaries STATE HALL: Room 118Giselle Ariel Bleuz • Citlali Ortiz

4:00pm EDT

Closing Ceremony: Rituals to Return Community Arts Auditorium

6:30pm EDT

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