The Summit

June 24–26, 2022

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Training sessions and workshops for core participants focused on campaign and movement strategy, effective storytelling, media and messaging strategy, arts advocacy, and collaboration across communities and areas of expertise.

Day 1: Stories We Tell Ourselves

INTRODUCTIONS • ALIGNMENT • TRUST • KNOWLEDGE SHARING
WORKSHOPS • MUSIC • ART

Day 2: Stories We Tell Each Other

CONVERSATIONS • CONFLICT RESOLUTION • CURATED CONVERSATION CIRCLES • MOVEMENT • BUILDING BRIDGES AND BREAKING WALLS

Day 3: Stories We Tell About Us

VISIONS • STRATEGIES • PATHS • SPECIAL GUEST FACILITATORS • WORKSHOPS • ON-SITE CREATION OF NEW MEDIA • A PATH FORWARD TOGETHER

Training Sessions and Workshops

Designing for Justice

MASS Design and The Gun Violence Memorial Project

The Timeline of Chicago

Tanya Lozano, Community Organizer and Founder, Healthy Hood

Shared Stories, Shared Spaces: Erasing Imaginary Lines

Johnny Page, Co–Director of Programs and Partnerships, ConTextos, Lisa Kenner, Co–Director of Programs and Partnerships, and ConTextos Alumni of the ConTextos Program at Cook County Jail

Spirituality and Liberation Theology

Tanya Woods, Executive Director, Westside Justice Center, and Charise Walker, Director, Programs & Community Services, Westside Justice Center

Can You See Me?

Devon VanHouten–Maldanodo, Director of Programs, SkyART, and Michael Rangel, Program Manager, SkyART

Practical and Visionary Steps to Abolition

Bella BAHHS, Chicago-based raptivist and revolutionary

Identifying the Messengers

Love and Protect with Monica Cosby: Criminalized Survivorship, Renaldo Hudson with Alice Kim

View From Across the Country: What We’re Up Against

Insha Rahman, Vice President of Advocacy and Partnerships, Vera Institute of Justice, Sam Sinynagwe, Co-Founder, Campaign Zero, and Sharone Mitchell, Public Defender, Cook County.

Interactive Audience & Story Workshop

Leia Squillace and Nkosi Cain, Broadway Advocacy Coalition

Journalist Fish Bowl

Keri Blakinger, The Marshall Project; Maya Schenwar, Truth Out; Cara Reedy, Disabled Journalists Association; Jacqui Germain, Teen Vogue; Benji Hart, Freelance

Creation Labs: Building Our Own Storytelling Projects