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Welcome to the 20th Annual Allied Media Conference!

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Jack Aponte

Palante Technology Cooperative
Jack Aponte is a gender/queer Black Boricua living in Oakland, CA. Jack has worked at the intersection of tech and socia
Jack Aponte is a genderqueer Black Boricua who has worked at the intersection of tech and social justice since 2003. They are a founding worker-owner of Palante Technology Cooperative and a dedicated activist, writer and leftist gadfly.
Thursday, June 14
 

5:30pm

3Leches x Liberation Cuisine at Cass Cafe Dream Cafe (Cass Cafe)

7:00pm

Past, Present, Futurism: Resilient Infrastructure Community Arts AuditoriumJenny Lee • Tara Rodríguez Besosa • Monica Lewis-Patrick • Diana Nucera • Maya Wiley

10:00pm

Dream Cafe Kick-off Party with djs Whodat + LadyMonix Dream Cafe (Cass Cafe)Terri “Whodat” McQueen • Lady Monix
 
Friday, June 15
 

9:00am

Stories Become Movements, Become Stories: Ending Sexual and Gender-based Violence Community Arts AuditoriumEmi Kane • The Free Siwatu Coalition • Tatyana Fazlalizadeh • Emi Koyama • Amita Swadhin

11:00am

Community Tech in Practice: Building Community Wifi Networks MCGREGOR: Room F/G/HTeresa Basilio Gaztambide • Diana Nucera Holding Space Part I: Strategies for Anti-Oppressive Facilitation STATE HALL: Room 101Autumn Brown • Maryse Mitchell-Brody Cuir Kitchen Brigade SHUTTLE STOP: Anthony Wayne + KirbyTara Rodríguez Besosa • Luz Cruz/ Pao Lebron • Patri González Ramírez

12:45pm

#MoreThanCode: Findings from the Tech 4 Social Justice Field Scan STATE HALL: Room 114Sasha Costanza-Chock • Helyx Chase Scearce Horwitz • T4SJ Project Partners

2:00pm

Holding Space Part II: Facilitator Magic! STATE HALL: Room 101Autumn Brown • Maryse Mitchell-Brody Can You Hear Us Now? Movement, Techies and Technology Politics STATE HALL: Room 134Alice Aguilar • Alfredo Lopez • Cayden Mak

4:00pm

Fantasy Island: Decolonial Futures & Puerto Rican Response STATE HALL: Room 113Shey Rivera Ríos • Jo Cosme • Joel Rivera

6:00pm

Opening Ceremony Detroit Film TheaterTarana Burke • Mariame Kaba

8:00pm

The Original AMC Karaoke + Bowling Party The Garden BowlJennyoke
 
Saturday, June 16
 

9:00am

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

11:00am

From the Rebel Alliance to Wakanda: Sci-fi Movement Building STATE HALL: Room 101Autumn Brown • Kai M. Green • Terry Marshall • Jenna Peters-Golden • Manju Rajendran • Makani Themba Networks of the Equitable Internet Initiative Tour SHUTTLE STOP: Anthony Wayne + KirbyJanice Gates • Diana Nucera

2:00pm

Reclaim Our Futures: Take Back Land & Housing STATE HALL: Room 134brandon king • Zach Murray • Devi Peacock • KP Pestaño • Denechia Powell • Xemiyulu Manibusan Tapepechul

4:00pm

Emergent Strategy: Spells and Practices Times STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry Badrienne maree brown Lifting as They Climbed: A Tour of Chicago Black Women Histories STATE HALL: Room 125Mariame Kaba • Essence McDowell • Kierra Verdun Community Digital Risk Matrix MCGREGOR: Room F/G/HGreta Byrum • Seeta Gangadharan • Ana Maria Reichenbach

6:00pm

Just Ricanstruction: Construyendo Puentes PosMaria STATE HALL: Room 114Puerto Rican Healing Justice Delegation

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
 
Sunday, June 17
 

10:00am

Holistic Harm Reduction for Digital Security MCGREGOR: Room F/G/HJack Aponte • Jamila Khan

11:00am

The Asymmetrical Table at Dream Cafe Dream Cafe (Cass Cafe)

1:00pm

Education for Abolition STATE HALL: Room 101adrienne maree brown • Mariame Kaba