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8:00am EDT

Breakfast / Registration Bosley Hall

9:00am EDT

Becoming a Worker Cooperative Developer: The Basics (By Application) (Morning Only)FILLING HGA Classroom 214Leigh Brown • Roodline Volcy The Future of Philanthropy - A Radical Vision (SOLD OUT)(By Application) (Morning Only)FILLING CEC Classroom 215-216 CFarhad Ebrahimi • Jennifer Near Bridging Divides to a New Economy training (By Application) (Full-Day)LIMITED HGA Classroom 204Macky Alston • Naomi Washington-Leapheart Mapping Our Futures: Exploring Economics and Governance in Our Communities (SOLD OUT) (Spanish Interpretation)FILLING HGA Classroom 203brandon king • Rachel Plattus • Susan Williams Movement Voices Training with Laura Flanders (SOLD OUT) (Invitation Only) (Full-Day) HGA Classroom 215Laura Flanders People and Planet First: Organizing for Energy Sovereignty (SOLD OUT) (Invitation Only) (Full-Day)LIMITED HGA Classroom 205Ben Ishibashi Rural Electric Cooperative Organizing Gathering (SOLD OUT) (By Application) (Full-Day)LIMITED CEC Classroom 213-214 BNikita Perumal • Liz Veazey • Chris Woolery Solutions Journalism Training for the New Economies Reporting Project (SOLD OUT) (Invitation Only) (Full-Day)LIMITED HGA Classroom 218 Stories for a New Economy (Open) (Full-Day)LIMITED CEC Classroom 217-218 DJayeesha Dutta • Chloe Henson • Yuki Kidokoro • Anna Lee • Mariana Mendoza • Kiara Nagel Worker Cooperative JUMPSTART (SOLD OUT) (Open) (Full-Day)(Spanish Interpretation)LIMITED CEC Classroom 211-212 AJohn Duda • Jim Johnson • KATE KHATIB

1:00pm EDT

Site Visit: Pruitt-IgoeLIMITED Shuttle Departure Point

1:30pm EDT

Data-Mapping for the New Economy (SOLD OUT) (Open) (Afternoon Only)LIMITED HGA Classroom 219Noemi Gizpensc Place-Based Investing for Racial Justice (SOLD OUT) (By Application) (Afternoon Only)FILLING CEC Classroom 215-216 CDeborah Frieze • Aaron Tanaka Worker Cooperatives: Moving the Movement (SOLD OUT) (Open) (Afternoon Only)LIMITED HGA Classroom 214Annette Griffin • Mo Manklang

5:00pm EDT

Dinner Dining Hall

6:00pm EDT

Ngoma In Motion Concert PerformanceLIMITED HGA Auditorium

7:00pm EDT

Opening Plenary: "Owning This Moment" HGA AuditoriumM ADAMS • Makani Themba • Coy Wakefield

8:00am EDT

Breakfast / Registration Bosley Hall

9:00am EDT

Workshop Block 1 / Emergent Conversations A TBA Being the Change: An Introduction to Just Transition CEC Classroom 213-214 BChloe Henson • Yuki Kidokoro Building The Social Economy: Case Studies from Cuba, Mexico and Quebec HGA AuditoriumRafael Betancourt • Maude Brossard • Aristarco CORTES • Eric Leenson Community Investment Funds: Taking Community Capital to Scale HGA Classroom 204Brian Beckon • Sarah Kaplan Cooperativism for Latinos living in the US: Challenges and opportunities CEC Classroom 217-218 DLiliana Avendaño • Indira Garmendia • Catalina Rojas • Luz Zambrano Creating a Just Capital Fund for your Community HGA Classroom 203Hendrix Berry • Nia Evans • Eric Horvath • Pierre Joseph Fighting for a Public Bank: How, Why, and Where CEC Classroom 211-212 ASylvia Chi • Ali Issa • Debbie Notkin • Lewis Reed Healing Justice & Collective Care in Our Movements HGA Classroom 219Alyson Thompson • Kate Werning Learning from the UK: Connecting Politics to Local Economic Democracy Efforts HGA Classroom 220Harper Bishop • Laura Flanders • Sarah McKinley Owning Our Advocacy: Creating a Democratic Process for Worker Cooperative Policy Development HGA Classroom 215Yassi Eskandari • Kate Spasic • Saduf Syal • Steph Wiley Planting Poetry as Visionary Resistance HGA Classroom 214Hnin Hnin • Dominique Pearson • Tawana Petty Story Shift Film Salon HGA Classroom 206Luisa Dantas • Anna Lee • Rachel Plattus Strategies for Reclaiming Land for Communities CEC Pro Dev 204Greg Jackson • Noni Session • India Walton • Lauren Wilfong Walk the Talk of Equality: Exploring Inclusive Decision Making HGA Classroom 205Rebecca Fisher-McGinty • Jerry Koch-Gonzalez • Yana Ludwig What Are We For? Exploring Socialist Alternatives HGA Classroom 218Francisco Perez • Aaron Tanaka Youth Climate Justice Assembly CEC Classroom 215-216 CAlexandra Lindstrom • Hope Ghazala, LMSW • Meagan Lyle • Jessie Thornton

11:00am EDT

Workshop Block 2 / Emergent Conversations B TBA Building Powerful and Thriving Groups HGA Classroom 205Dante Garcia • Jess Grady-Benson • Jeanne Rewa Community Capital in the Digital Age HGA Classroom 203Amy Bogie • Scott Morris Dismantling Class Privilege to Build Cross Class Power HGA Classroom 214Sarah Abbott • Kaitlin Gravitt From Divest to Reinvest: Moving Resources & Power into Frontline Community Control for a Just Transition CEC Pro Dev 204Lupe Romero Elicea • Vivian Huang • Loren White Jr • Yuki Kidokoro • Alyssa Lee Just Transition to a Feminist Economy CEC Classroom 213-214 BPriya Johnson Local Victories Reveal a Path to Ambitious Climate Equity Nationally CEC Classroom 211-212 AColette Pichon Battle • Johannah Cordon Hill • Jim Irby • Adrien Salazar • Anthony Torres Mobilizing Data to Combat Mass Incarceration and Build the New Economy in Post-Industrial Cities HGA Classroom 215Andrew Arkills • Glenn Burleigh • Nay'Chelle Harris • Kennard Williams Our Cities: Participatory Budgeting for Inclusion and Equity HGA Classroom 218Scott Barish • Olga Bautista • Maria Hadden • Rebecca Hollenbach • Vincent Russell • Valerie Warren PACA's 20 BookClubs, 20 Cooperative Businesses: Reimaging Cooperative Development in Marginalized Communities Through Study and Democratic Practices HGA Classroom 219Jamila Medley Performing Habitus: A Collaborative Transformation Game HGA Classroom 206Beth Neff • Esther Neff Policy, Power, and the Radical Imagination HGA AuditoriumTerrel Askew • John Duda • Ali Issa • Sarah McKinley • Peter Sabonis Scaling Employee Ownership HGA Classroom 220Andrea Armeni • Melissa Hoover • Jennie Msall • Sarah Stranahan Self Care, Sisterhood & Sustainability HGA Classroom 204Dail Chambers • Chinyere Oteh Technology for the New Economy CEC Classroom 215-216 CAlfredo Lopez • Micky Metts • René Pérez Towards a People's Puerto Rico CEC Classroom 217-218 DJUSTO MENDEZ ARAMBURU • Carlos Figueroa-Robles • Reynaldo Padilla • Nicolle Teresa Ramos • Alejandra M. Alicea Ríos • Ana Yris Guzman Torres

12:00pm EDT

Lunch Dining Hall

2:30pm EDT

Saturday Plenary: "Owning Local Power" HGA AuditoriumEli Feghali • Rebecca Kemble • Jorge Diaz Ortiz • Doria Robinson

4:00pm EDT

Whose Streets? Film ScreeningLIMITED Emerson TheaterJulia Ho Site Visit: Black Girl HealLIMITED Shuttle Departure Point Site Visit: North St. Louis County WorkdayLIMITED Shuttle Departure Point Site Visit: Pruitt-IgoeLIMITED Shuttle Departure Point Site Visit: The Griot Museum of Black HistoryLIMITED Shuttle Departure Point Site Visit: The VilleLIMITED Shuttle Departure Point Site Visits/ Open Space TBA

5:30pm EDT

#RadTalks HGA AuditoriumMaude Brossard • Reg Flowers • Priya Johnson • Tishaura Jones • Amalya Livingston

7:30pm EDT

Dinner and Party Friends - A Meeting Place

8:00am EDT

Breakfast Dining Hall

9:30am EDT

Workshop Block 3 / Emergent Conversations C TBA A School and a Bus: Sharing Models for Just Recovery and Community Food Economies in Puerto Rico CEC Classroom 217-218 DTara Rodríguez Besosa • Carol Ramos Asian American Solidarity Economies: Intersections and Possibilities HGA Classroom 206Parag Khandhar • Yvonne Liu Better Living in Mutual Aid Networks HGA Classroom 205Rebecca Kemble • Stephanie Rearick • Emanuel Taranu Building Blocks for City Campaigns for a New Economy CEC Pro Dev 204Steve Dubb • Eric Griego • Kimber Lanning • Mike Sandmel • Ana Siria Urzua Centering Love in Finance CEC Classroom 213-214 BNwamaka Agbo • Ari Sahagun • Aaron Tanaka Clean Power to the People! Energy Democracy: Advancing Equity in Clean Energy Solutions HGA AuditoriumShiva Patel • Jacqui Patterson • Charles Taylor • Jessica Tovar • Liz Veazey Creating Localized Farmland Commons HGA Classroom 214Ian McSweeney • Jean Willoughby Creating Participatory Bylaws For Distributed Power and Equity HGA Classroom 204Simon Mont • Chris Tittle Fired Up & Burnt Out: Keeping It Together in Uncertain Times HGA Classroom 219Byul Yoon Health Equity for Workers HGA Classroom 215Mo Manklang • Daniella Preisler Making Art & Remaking Ourselves: A New Arts Economy for Justice CEC Classroom 215-216 CReg Flowers • Noemi Gizpensc • Adam Horowitz • Caroline Taiwo Move Your (or Your Organization's) Money HGA Classroom 203Emma Guttman-Slater Sources of Community Capital CEC Classroom 211-212 AEd Whitfield The Leap Manifesto: People's Platform as Organizing Tactic HGA Classroom 218Bianca Mugyenyi

11:15am EDT

Workshop Block 4 / Emergent Conversations D TBA A Relationship Economy That Transforms The News HGA Classroom 205Alicia Bell Building the Caring Majority HGA Classroom 219Maggie Ornstein • Kevin Simonwitz Building the Tenant Movement with Rent Control HGA Classroom 214Mashael Majid • Karen Narefsky Communities Over Commodities: People-Driven Alternatives to an Unjust Housing System HGA AuditoriumDrea Chiriboga-Flor • Roberto Garcia-Ceballos • Chris Tittle Fair Lending and Community Reinvestment: Organizing and Advocacy for Economic Justice HGA Classroom 218Tia Byrd • Elisabeth Risch Fearless Cities - A Municipalist Take on Building Cooperative Power CEC Classroom 217-218 DPablo Benson • Marisa Anne Day • brandon king • Kelly Roache Food is Medicine: An Indigenous Look at Food CEC Classroom 215-216 CBeverly Luecking • Saundi McClain-Koeckener • Sherry Taluc Intentional Community as a New Economy Lever HGA Classroom 215Yana Ludwig • Sky-Blue Just Trade - Exploring the History and Present-Day Challenges of the Fair Trade Movement CEC Classroom 213-214 BRegina Dennis-Nana • Frankie Pondolph • Jonathan Rosenthal Leveraging Policy to Reverse the Effects of Racism CEC Pro Dev 204Craig Bardo • Erica Williams Power of the Heart HGA Classroom 204Shilpa Jain • Simon Mont • Hina Pendle Radical Design for Speculative Futures HGA Classroom 206Alix Gerber Shifting Capital to Our Communities: the Due Diligence Simulation Game HGA Classroom 203Angela Barbash

12:30pm EDT

Lunch (Outdoors) Campus Quad

1:30pm EDT

Closing Meditations and Appreciations (Outdoors) Campus Quad