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Check out this video to hear Dr. Brittany Lewis describe the activities included and what you will experience on June 11 and 12!

Thursday, June 11: Healing and affinity gatherings from 4:30 to 8 p.m

Friday, June 12: Research convening (day of action) launches with breakfast at 9:00 a.m., followed by presentations and programs for all attendees until 6 p.m. 

See the full agenda here!

Friday, June 12: After the day of action ends at 6 p.m., EAW will host “Advancing Equity in Action: An Evening of Art and Activation to Resource Community-Led Research” from 6:00-9:00 p.m.

While this event will center the expertise and healing of Black women, girls and femmes, all aspects of the convening provide an invitation to community members and leaders of ALL racial and gender backgrounds who are committed to our theme: “Building a New Table with Black Women, Girls and Femmes.”

On the evening of Thursday, June 11, 2026 we will host two separate affinity spaces respective to identities. 

“Collective Healing: A Sacred Space to Reflect and Connect” is the healing space offered on Thursday night for Black women, girls, and femmes only.

“From Fragility to Collective Liberation: Unlearning and reimagining how to build new tables with Black women, girls, and femmes” is the affinity space offered on for accomplices from all other races and genders.

Lessons From Earthseed: Using Endarkened Poetic Inquiry to Witness Black Women Educators’ Radical Healing: This workshop focuses on the design and implementation of an arts-based participatory inquiry on the lived experiences of Black women early childhood educators.

How to Safely Measure Rainbows: A Trauma-Informed Approach to Researching Black LGBTQ+ Survivors: Participants will learn from in-depth data and analysis on the Black LGBTQ+ community to understand the importance of attending to intersections within the community.

Data Culture Alchemy: Black Women’s Memory, Meaning Making, and Mentions as Pathways to Liberation: Using the M³ framework-- Memory, Meaning‑Making, and Mentions-- this session illuminates how data becomes alchemical when it fully embraces culture, identity, positionality, and the layered contexts Black women navigate.

Beyond the Outburst: Dismantling the Criminalization of Survival: This presentation explores the "Abuse-to-Prison Pipeline," where marginalized survivors, specifically Black and Brown individuals who lack the social capital to be seen as the "perfect victim," are transformed from victims into defendants.

Queering Community Partnerships: A Black Queer Supper Club's Model for Mutually Beneficial Partnerships: Traditional community partnerships often prioritize organizational goals over community needs. Tulips in the Garden: A Black Queer Supper Club offers an alternative. Participants will learn how the supper club builds beneficial partnerships with local nonprofits and community initiatives by centering joy, authentic relationships, and mutual support.

Living Liberatory Values: Lessons from Five Years of Participatory Evaluation with Black Moms in Jackson, Mississippi: In this presentation, our team will reflect on what it means to act to end epistemic oppression and maintain openness to personal transformation not just in theory, but in the context of a real project over multiple years. This session is an invitation to sit with the beauty and the difficulty of that together.

"I Want To Be Heard:" Centering BIPOC Women Survivors of Sexual Violence in Ramsey County: In 2023, the Minnesota Justice Research Center, Ramsey County Attorney's Office, and SOS Sexual Violence Services collaborated to center the experiences of BIPOC women survivors of sexual assault in Ramsey County - a project rooted in accountability and shared meaning-making. This presentation will overview the research, findings, and recommendations, followed by a panel discussion with a researcher, system actor, and community advocate or participant on policy shifts and ongoing relationship-building.

NAEYC Workforce Surveys: Understanding the Realities of the Early Childhood Workforce to Inform Advocacy and Drive Solutions: Our session will share how we center and amplify educator voices, worked at speeds that met the urgency experienced by those most disproportionately impacted by inequity, and invited advocates to co-create every stage of the survey process alongside us.

Please check back on our website as we approach the event for more details about concurrent and breakout events.

Yes! We are seeking Black women and femme entrepreneurs and artisans to sell their products at the event!

Please contact info@equityinactionway.org to receive a registration link for vendors.

Registration to be a tabling vendor is $150 and does NOT grant access for the various sessions.

You may arrive as early as 7:00a on Friday, June 12 to the Westminster to set up your tabling space. Plan to be setup by 8:45am in preparation for the event to start at 9am.