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20th Annual Allied Media Conference

Welcome to the 20th Annual Allied Media Conference!

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Marlo Barrera

Marlo is a founding member of ReJAC which recently launched the Plan B NOLA text and healthline. Plan B NOLA distributes free and by-donation emergency contraception through a city-wide network of Community Support Members and Community Outposts. She is a New Orleans native interested in building more and stronger organizing relationships and support systems across the south.

10:00am EDT

Mobilizing Our Resources Network Gathering (at capacity) MCGREGOR: Room F/G/H

11:00am EDT

Decolonizing Family History through Storytelling STATE HALL: Room 125Chantal Shaffer 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 Reclaiming Science: What is community-based science? STATE HALL: Room 114Kieran Alessi • Mara Freilich • August Guang • Steph Yin

12:45pm EDT

Building a Research Justice Network STATE HALL: Room 131Sam Appel • Diana Benitez • Sally Marquez Latinx Healing from Colonialism STATE HALL: Room 127Alexandra Corwin • Diana Quinn ND Riot Youth: Our queer stories STATE HALL: Room 115Paige Danovi • Alex Kincade-Beal • Ebere Oparaeke • Suzie Staley • Mattea Turreane • Jade Wang

2:00pm EDT

Aztec Dance and the Beginnings of the Day of the Dead Celebration STUDENT CENTER: Room 020Kia Ix Arriaga • Larry McMann • Naomi Acoyani Trevino 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 Recipes of Resilience: Transforming Trauma with Food STATE HALL: Room 131Amanny Ahmad • Tara Rodríguez Besosa • Neftali Duran • Kate McCabe • Anya Peters

4:00pm EDT

Water Warriors - Screening & Conversation STATE HALL: Room 106Michael Premo Fantasy Island: Decolonial Futures & Puerto Rican Response STATE HALL: Room 113Shey Rivera Ríos • Jo Cosme • Joel Rivera Imagination as a Research Tool STATE HALL: Room 116Nina Bhattacharya • Payal Kumar Surviving Impossible Times: Herbal Strategies for People of Color STUDENT CENTER: Room 025Carmen Malis King • Triana Kazaleh Sirdenis • Lottie Spady Our Data Bodies Matter! STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry CTawana Petty (she/her) • Virginia Eubanks • Seeta Peña Gangadharan • Tamika Lewis • Mariella Saba Today's Equity, Tomorrow's Museum MCGREGOR: Room BRhea Boese-Colond • Abby Liegl • Opeyemi

6:00pm EDT

Opening Ceremony Detroit Film TheaterTarana Burke • Mariame Kaba

7:30pm EDT

I-Collective at Cass Cafe Dream Cafe (Cass Cafe) Black and Brown Healing in the Wake of Climate Catastrophe CASS COMMONS: Memorial HallPuerto Rican Healing Justice Delegation

8:00pm EDT

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

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 Fire: A Transformation Oracle STATE HALL: Room 128Alexis Pauline Gumbs • Sangodare (Julia Roxanne Wallace) Not in My House: Celebrating LGBTQ Identity through Performance STUDENT CENTER: Room 020Kristi Faulkner • Dwayne Cole Jr. • AJ Sims • Brandi Smith Transforming Trauma: Youth-Led Social Justice Movements STATE HALL: Room 106Hasna Ghalib • Alex Kime • Ebere Oparaeke • Laila Pasha • Molly Pershin Raynor Act Out to Tear Down: Disrupt with Theatre of the Oppressed MCGREGOR: Room JRaven Stubbs • Chahney Young

12:45pm EDT

Perfection in Movement Spaces STATE HALL: Room 117Aiko Fukuchi • Teia McGahey

2:00pm EDT

Block-Printing Workshop and Silkscreen Demonstration STATE HALL: Room 125Thea Gahr • Mary Tremonte Visionary Organizing: Crafting Radical Futures STATE HALL: Room 137Jonathan Hanna • Erika Linenfelser "How to Survive the End of the World" Live Podcast STATE HALL: Room 101Autumn Brown • adrienne maree brown • Zak Rosen The Art of Interviewing STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry DKeisha TK Dutes

4:00pm EDT

Emergent Strategy: Spells and Practices Times STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry Badrienne maree brown Piss on Pity: Radically Uprooting the Culture of Ableism STUDENT CENTER: Room 025Hong Gwi-Seok • Baba Baxter Jones Sailing for Social justice STATE HALL: Room 115Tala Khanmalek • Audrey Kuo Biomythography STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry CAsia Mock • Valencia Vanner Fringe Issue: Sex Work & Night Life Organizing STATE HALL: Room 106Lyn Archer Breaking Library Silos for Social Justice (BLS4SJ) STATE HALL: Room 135Elle Covington • Cindy Fisher • Ayshea Khan

6:00pm EDT

Against Erasure STATE HALL: Room 128Chiwan Choi

10:00am EDT

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 Restorative Justice Peace Ambassadors STATE HALL: Room 118James Coleman • Tomas Ramirez • Bejor Weathersby

11:45am EDT

Light Your Fire: Altar Candles for Resilience STATE HALL: Room 134Robin Markle

1:00pm EDT

A Radical Wikipedia Workshop STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry DNora Almeida • Melissa Chavez • Lena Greenberg • Jen Hoyer • Lauren Hudgins Adventures in Co-Design! STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry AUna Lee First Response for Gunshots and Asthma STUDENT CENTER: Room 025Martine Caverl • Ana Lily Mccullom • Amika Tendaji Practical Magic: Lunar Ritual for Manifestation MCGREGOR: Room CCarmen Mayes Education for Abolition STATE HALL: Room 101adrienne maree brown • Mariame Kaba

4:00pm EDT

Closing Ceremony: Rituals to Return Community Arts Auditorium