Conference Program (PDF, 412 KB)
Morning Plenary
Multiple Movements: Changing the Future
Young leaders from disability rights, global justice, and antiracism and gender equality initiatives speak with activists who’ve most profoundly influenced their work, tracing the changes their respective movements have undergone, the challenges they continue to face, and strategies for meeting them.
Jennifer Kern, BC ’88, disability rights activist and former Director of Whirlwind Women
Abigail Reyes, Founder, Women Working for Change
Shawnta Smith, Director, Young Women’s Leadership Foundation
Judith Heumann, Former Assistant Secretary, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services
Nadine Cruz, Haas Center for Public Policy at Stanford University
Lateefah Simon, Executive Director, Center for Young Women’s Development
Afternoon Plenary
Activism, Art, and Feminist Futures
Through discussion and performance, feminist activists and artists consider how movements for social justice shape their work, as well as the ways in which socially conscious arts help articulate and motivate their movements.
Rebecca Walker, Founder of Third Wave Direct Corporation, author of To Be Real: Telling the Truth and Changing the Face of Feminism and Black, White, and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self
hattie gossett, a writer, performance poet, and educator, hattie gossett creates poetry, essays, performance pieces, plays, and lyrics for the printed page, theatre, dance, and film. She is the author of the prose-poetry collection Presenting Sister Noblues…
Stacyann Chin, writer, performer, and slam poet: winner of the 1999 People of Color Slam, the Lambda Poetry Slam, and a 1999 Grand Slam finalist
