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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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Saskia Leggett

Wix Education
Education Programs Lead
San Francisco, CA, USA

Hi! I'm Saskia. I care about supporting and engaging people at the intersection of creativity, education, and technology. At Wix Education, I facilitate partnerships, design and manage personally meaningful learning experiences, create community, and build playful, equitable pathways for students, educators, and families to explore, experiment, and create with digital tools.

Pronouns: she / her / hers

10:00pm EDT

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

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 Communities of Practice: Creating Community Accountable Research STATE HALL: Room 116Qui Dorian Alexander • Diana Chandara • A.K. O’Loughlin • Noah NuhuBabuKubwa Isaiah Sims

12:00pm EDT

FoodLab Community Market at The Commons The Commons

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

2:00pm EDT

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 Intro to Podcasting STUDENT CENTER: Room 384Aaron Lakoff • Abby Madan • Aliya Pabani

4:00pm EDT

Imagination as a Research Tool STATE HALL: Room 116Nina Bhattacharya • Payal Kumar #WokeAt5: Justice Education in the K-2 Classroom MCGREGOR: Room CPhylicia Brown

6:00pm EDT

Opening Ceremony Detroit Film TheaterTarana Burke • Mariame Kaba

7:30pm EDT

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

8:00pm EDT

GET TO WERK The Marble BarTT the Artist • Stacye J and the Anthology of Booty • Miz Korona

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

Coding For Community STUDENT CENTER: Room 384Bettie • Darius • Keiyon • Tychichus • Tyree Express though Tech, Ozobots: Coding Meets Art STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry EFatima Abdihoosh • Anika Duckwall • Keke Simpson • Corionna Washington • Kayse Yang • Halima Yassin From Growing Our Economy to Growing Our Soul – East Side Detroit Tour. SHUTTLE STOP: Anthony Wayne + KirbyRichard Feldman

12:45pm EDT

Lunchtime Meetup: Astrology Readings with Alexander Weyer MCGREGOR: Room L/MAlexander Weyer Public Space for All: Community Engagement in Downtown Detroit STATE HALL: Room 127Denise McGeen • Alana Tucker RADLAM Lunch: Building a Community STATE HALL: Room 134Krisandra Ivings • Andrea Kampen • Simon De Salvo • Marianne Williams

2:00pm EDT

Building Consentful Technology MCGREGOR: Room F/G/HTawana Petty (she/her) • Una Lee Scratch 3.0: Creating and Expressing with Code STUDENT CENTER: Room 384Champika Fernando • Saskia Leggett • Jaleesa Trapp Trans is Magick: Building Trans Community Through Celebration STATE HALL: Room 135Jimena Lucero • Mikaela Xochitl 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 Design Justice Network Planning Session STATE HALL: Room 123Danielle Aubert • Victoria Barnett • Sasha Costanza-Chock • Ebony Dumas • Una Lee • Victor Moore

6:00pm EDT

Blackness and Afro Latinidad: Brujas Healing the Diaspora STATE HALL: Room 117Consuela Lopez • Antonio Rafael • Briana Urena-Ravelo Designs on Democracy OFFSITEDesign Action Collective

7:00pm EDT

Black Music The Baltimore GalleryDeon Jamar • Nicole Misha

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

10:00pm EDT

Portage Garage Sounds at the Dream Cafe Dream Cafe (Cass Cafe)Vinnie Massimino • Benjamin Kenjiro Saginaw • Zachary Shigeto Saginaw • Charles Trees

11:45am EDT

Community Storytelling: Amplifying Neighborhood Voices STATE HALL: Room 115Imani Mixon