Pre-Conference Program

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM

Critical Connections: Developing a Shared Framework for Race and Gender Justice. Join us for this day-long “deep dive” into the intersecting issues of race, gender, class, and sexual orientation. We will hear from leading scholars, practitioners, and organizers in the field, including J. Bob Alotta, Linda Burnham, Mia Herndon, Alexis McGill Johnson, Paul Kivel, Kalpana Krishnamurthy, Tarso Luis Ramos, Jose Antonio Vargas and Luna Yasui.

Conference Highlights

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3

• Registration and welcome reception beginning at 4:00 pm
• Challenging Corporate Power: The Movement and the Moment, Opening Discussion with Joan Claybrook, Former President of Public Citizen and Heather McGhee, Director of Demos’ Washington, DC office. Setting the stage for our three-day, solutions-oriented exploration of the economy and corporate power, we will moderate an intimate conversation between a 30-year veteran of corporate accountability activism and a rising star in the growing movement for economic justice. These two incredible women will share insights and reflections on the current moment, as well as key lessons from the past that can help us shape a strategy going forward.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4

• Systems Thinking: Dismantling Corporate Personhood and Building a New Balance of Power with Professor john a. powell, preeminent authority in the area of civil rights and the Executive Director of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity.
• Presence and Authenticity: The Key to Becoming a Media Star, a media training led by Joel Silberman, New York theatrical director and media trainer to performers and successful progressive candidates, leaders, and media personalities.
• Pursuit of Happiness: Women Driving A New Economy, with Ellen Bravo, Director of Family Values @Work Consortium; Eveline Shen, Executive Director of Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice; and Anat Shenker-Osorio, an accomplished linguist specializing in the application of cognition to political discourses.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5

• Our Network: WDN in a Year of Growth, hear about all the ways in which WDN is innovating progressive philanthropy and creating impact.
• What Winning Looks Like: Hear success stories from organizers and funders who have challenged corporate power and won.
• Issue-specific conference tracks focused on the environment and the media.
• Forging a Progressive Agenda: What Will It Take? with Maya Wiley, Executive Director of the Center for Social Inclusion, who will share her innovative vision and weave together threads of discussion, learning, and skills-building from the conference program.

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 6

• WDNCamp: Our First “Un-Conference”, where the official agenda ends, and you are charged with making one up!
• Lunch and farewell (conference concludes at 1 pm on Sunday, Nov. 6)

Need information? Call 415-814-1333 or email Kathleen Andreson.

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