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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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Piper Carter

Detroit Independent Freedom Schools
Piper Carter is an Image Maker & Fashion Photographer, Community Cultural Organizer in the Environmental Justice, Maker Space, Food Justice & Entertainment Justice communities, Co-Founder of The Foundation of Women in Hip Hop, Founding member of the Detroit Digital Justice Coalition & Multimedia Artist for Jessica Care Moore’s Black Women Rock. Piper is a Founding Member of Detroit Independent Freedom Schools, & coordinating committee member. Most recently she was Lead of the Arts & Culture Committee for the National Women’s March Inaugural Convention 2017 in Detroit, MI.

10:00am EDT

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

11:00am EDT

Hacking Wikipedia: How to bring your community to the world STUDENT CENTER: Room 384Sanghapali Aruna • Grace Banu • Maari Zwick Maitreyi • Thenmozhi Soundararajan Holding Space Part I: Strategies for Anti-Oppressive Facilitation STATE HALL: Room 101Autumn Brown • Maryse Mitchell-Brody Let`s Talk About Movement Journalism STATE HALL: Room 131Chelsea Fuller • Anna Simonton The Nuts & Bolts of Fundraising from Foundations STATE HALL: Room 113mai cortez doan • Joy Messinger

2:00pm EDT

Holding Space Part II: Facilitator Magic! STATE HALL: Room 101Autumn Brown • Maryse Mitchell-Brody How to do Individual Donor Visits to Raise Money! STATE HALL: Room 113Mary Grace Wolf Young People Building a Culture of Consent in Technology MCGREGOR: Room CTahliyah Griffin • Shamash Lima • Jahtiek McKenzie • Nevaeh Rios • Maya Wagoner

4:00pm EDT

Fiscal Sponsorship: Sharing Resources to Build Community STATE HALL: Room 134Courtney Harge • Toni Moceri • Beth Warshaw Revisiting Asset-based Mapping STUDENT CENTER: Room 384Diana Benitez • Betty Marín #WokeAt5: Justice Education in the K-2 Classroom MCGREGOR: Room CPhylicia Brown

11:00am EDT

Healing Uses of Plant Technology STUDENT CENTER: Room 285Karen L. Culpepper • Richael Faithful • Miriam Zoila Pérez Building a Freedom School Movement in Detroit STATE HALL: Room 116Piper Carter • Mike Doan • Amaniyea Ellis • Joy Ellis • Salima Ellis

12:45pm EDT

Imagine! Create! Liberate! STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry EAna Amaya • Tekiyah Arrington • Steph Campoverde Podcasters Unite STATE HALL: Room 123Miriam Zoila Pérez • Kate Werning Sustainable Sisterhood: Two Founders Share Stories and Skills STATE HALL: Room 116Dail Chambers • Chinyere E. Oteh

2:00pm EDT

Shifting Power with Participatory Video STATE HALL: Room 106Monica Curca • Rhanda Dormeus • Thor Morales • Theresa Smith • Lauri Valdez Youth Participatory Action Research for Social Justice STATE HALL: Room 116Sana Azim • Alan Cheng • Marquise Cox • Jessie Levandov • Iyleen Torres Animation for Social Change STATE HALL: Room 118Carrie Hawks • Consuela Lopez

4:00pm EDT

Capoeira Angola & Batucada of Michigan STUDENT CENTER: 020Kelvin Wyatt Joyful Resistance: Art and Protest in Defense of the Hood MCGREGOR: Room JChiResists and Barrios Against Displacement

6:00pm EDT

#MediaJustice Mixer w/ MAG-NET and Freepress MCGREGOR: Room F/G/H Dear Black Women: The Power of Black Women Affirming Themselves STATE HALL: Room 127Florence Noel Talent Rising: A Gathering of Mission-Driven Media Makers OFFSITECandice Fortman • Sue Schardt • Tran Vu

7:00pm EDT

The Gathering: An AMC Youth Party! CASS COMMONS: Memorial HallMotor City Street Dance Academy

10:00am EDT

Hacking Capitalism: Divest, Manage Debt, and Ethical Money STATE HALL: Room 123Hadassah Damien

1:00pm EDT

Education for Abolition STATE HALL: Room 101adrienne maree brown • Mariame Kaba Humanizing Schooling In Detroit STATE HALL: Room 134Alondra Castañeda • N8 Mullen • kelly rickert

6:00pm EDT

The Free Brunch Program OFFSITECharlyn Griffith/ Pronoun they or Honey • Asadullah Saed