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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.

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Julia Kong

Reflex Design Collective
Managing Partner
California

Julia Kong is a Managing Partner and Co-Founder at Reflex Design Collective, an Oakland-based consultancy building grassroots access to decision making power using design and creativity.

11:00am EDT

AMC2018 Homeroom STUDENT CENTER: Room 020Tawana Petty (she/her)

7:00pm EDT

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

8:00pm EDT

Welcome to AMC2018! A FireHouse Music Series Celebration Detroit Institute of Arts (North Lawn)Monica Blaire • Detroit Che • One Freq • DJ Bleak G • DJ Stacye J • Trey P.

9:00am EDT

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 EDT

Holding Space Part I: Strategies for Anti-Oppressive Facilitation STATE HALL: Room 101Autumn Brown • Maryse Mitchell-Brody Team Internet: What We Learned Organizing to Save Net Neutrality STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry ALaila Abdelaziz • Mary Alice Crim • Mark Stanley The Nuts & Bolts of Fundraising from Foundations STATE HALL: Room 113mai cortez doan • Joy Messinger Communities of Practice: Creating Community Accountable Research STATE HALL: Room 116Qui Dorian Alexander • Diana Chandara • A.K. O’Loughlin • Noah NuhuBabuKubwa Isaiah Sims Design Against Design STUDENT CENTER: Room 285Marie Noelle Hebert • Kevin Yuen Kit Lo • Lolo Sirois

12:45pm EDT

#MoreThanCode: Findings from the Tech 4 Social Justice Field Scan STATE HALL: Room 114Sasha Costanza-Chock • Helyx Chase Scearce Horwitz • T4SJ Project Partners Mealtime MeetUp with DNA and MIT Co-Creation Studio STATE HALL: Room 106Katerina Cizek • Sarah Wolozin Sharing Tools for Change: creating a more just and open city STATE HALL: Room 134Tara Eisenberg Twelve Lessons from "Parable of the Sower" STATE HALL: Room 125olaronke akinmowo

2:00pm EDT

Screening of New Detroit Documentary: Last Days of Chinatown STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry ANicole Macdonald Data-Driven Research for Abolition STATE HALL: Room 115Chelsea Barabas • Sharlyn Grace • Rodrigo Ochigame • Hannah Sassaman Holding Space Part II: Facilitator Magic! STATE HALL: Room 101Autumn Brown • Maryse Mitchell-Brody Trauma Informed Impact Strategy STATE HALL: Room 127Sonya Childress • Twiggy Pucci-Garcon It`s Complicated: Healing Our Relationship with $ to Do More Good STATE HALL: Room 117Rhiannon Rhi Chester

4:00pm EDT

Dismantle Mass Incarceration Through Participatory Action Research STATE HALL: Room 118Eli Moore • Tamisha Walker Politics of Erasure: Intentional Marketing of QTPOC STATE HALL: Room 125Jayson Douglas

6:00pm EDT

Opening Ceremony Detroit Film TheaterTarana Burke • Mariame Kaba

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

Truly Accessible Spaces: Designing WITH Disabled Organizers STUDENT CENTER: Room 025Elea Chang • Melissa Chavez Building a Freedom School Movement in Detroit STATE HALL: Room 116Piper Carter • Mike Doan • Amaniyea Ellis • Joy Ellis • Salima Ellis Healing Justice Lineages: A History Discussion STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry CAutumn Brown • Adela Nieves Martinez • Cara Page • Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha • Rico • Triana Kazaleh Sirdenis Indigenous Storytelling: Resisting Co2lonialism STATE HALL: Room 125S (she/her) • Eriel Deranger

12:45pm EDT

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

2:00pm EDT

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 EDT

Emergent Strategy: Spells and Practices Times STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry Badrienne maree brown Community Digital Risk Matrix MCGREGOR: Room F/G/HGreta Byrum • Seeta Gangadharan • Ana Maria Reichenbach Design Justice Network Planning Session STATE HALL: Room 123Danielle Aubert • Victoria Barnett • Sasha Costanza-Chock • Ebony Dumas • Una Lee • Victor Moore Mapping the Power with LittleSis STUDENT CENTER: Room 384Munira Lokhandwala

6:00pm EDT

Healing Justice for QTPoC STATE HALL: Room 135Samia (any/all) • Taising Chen • Erica Woodland

8:00pm EDT

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

10:00am EDT

Hacking Capitalism: Divest, Manage Debt, and Ethical Money STATE HALL: Room 123Hadassah Damien An Introduction to Pleasure Activism Community Arts Auditoriumadrienne maree brown Five Miles of Freedom: African American History Tour in Detroit SHUTTLE STOP: Anthony + KirbyJamon Jordan Where is Vincent Chin?: Asian American Tour of Detroit SHUTTLE STOP: Anthony Wayne + KirbyRebecca J. Kinney • Soh Suzuki

1:00pm EDT

Adventures in Co-Design! STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry AUna Lee Education for Abolition STATE HALL: Room 101adrienne maree brown • Mariame Kaba

4:00pm EDT

Closing Ceremony: Rituals to Return Community Arts Auditorium

8:00pm EDT

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