WELCOME!
Friday, September 20th | Conversations around Cultural Equity
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Greeting
Jeff Daverman – Emcee
Rosemary Dixon – Chair of Prescott Indivisible
Greg Mengarelli – Mayor of Prescott
Wisdom Invocations from Representatives of Faith Groups
Reverend Patti Wills – Granite Peak Unitarian Universalist
Minister Signa Oliver – Faith Christian Center
Sister Anne Fitzsimons – Sacred Heart Catholic Parish
Cheryl Stover – United Islamic Center of Arizona
Kathleen Sibley – Center for Spiritual Living
Gene Galazan – Temple B’rith Shalom Social Justice Committee
John Lambert – Bahai’i Faith
Venerable Tenpo Kenzin – Garchen Buddhist Institute
Conversations & Creativity
Miriel Manning – The White Nationalism Movement
KJ Ink – To Equity For All
Mayfield Brooks – Improvising While Black
Lupe Conchas – Climate Equity Intersection
Lilian Molina – Introducing Ezra Levin
Keynote Address
Ezra Levin – The Importance Of Equity Work
CLOSING
Ezra Levin
Co-Executive Director, Indivisible Project
Supports the Indivisible Movement by: Charting a course and making sure the organization stays afloat Serving as co-chief cheerleader and ambassador for the Indivisible movement Being a talking head on TV shows. Recharges by: Hoisting our cat Hobbes up above my head a la the Lion King while singing Circle of Life Podcasts on bike rides to and from the office (currently Revolutions – it’s great)
Lilian Molina
Associate Organizing Director, Indivisible Project
Supports the Indivisible Movement by: Coaching and guiding the West Coast Organizing Pod, Centering and weaving racial justice into organizing strategies, programs and operations, lovingly working to build transparency, trust, alignment, coordination and accountability across teams.
Recharges by: Adventures with my two fierce, loving and rambunctious sons especially when I can be a human and not a momnagging dragon. Intense physical activities that make me break a sweat in order of preference; dancing, hiking through a jungle, boot camp, HIIT, running and tropical beaches. Solving algebra equations nerding out on science, reading speculative fiction written by WOC, movement reports, campaign plans and radical children’s books.
Miriel Manning
Miriel is a community organizer, educator, and artist. As the Social Justice Coordinator at Granite Peak Unitarian Universalist Congregation, they work to build relationships and mobilize people towards action. Miriel is committed to anti-racism, immigrant justice, and queer liberation. At the Neighborhood Summit for Equity, they will offer an analysis of the roles that white supremacy and white nationalism play in the current socio-political landscape and how we can resist. Studying history shows us that nothing is inevitable.
KJ Ink
KJ Ink is an outspoken rapscallion. One part small-town boy, two part city folk, and an educator who moonlights as a poet, KJ’s lived in Arizona for the better part of his life, but cannot deny the perspective he found while living on the other side of the world for the better part of a decade. Still seeking balance, KJ’s poetry, teaching, and living are dedicated to pushing the conversation of collaborative coexistence incrementally forward.
Mayfield Brooks
In Improvising While Black, my substitution of the word “driving” with “improvising” serves as a reminder of my personal experience with racial profiling and the fact that performance is a type of racial profiling. Simply put, in the context of the “afterlife of slavery,” blackness cannot exist without being profiled, and as a black performing blackness, I am irrevocably subject to being racially profiled by the audience, society, and myself.
Equity Dates
At the conclusion of the event we ask everyone to find a neighbor you do not YET know who has the same prompt (color index card), discuss the question and write something about what you discovered on back and drop in the the fishbowl at the back of the auditorium or at the St. Michael’s mixer.
Sunday, September 22nd | Racial Equity Workshops & Collective Action
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Join some of the members of the Indivisible national team to begin a conversation around race, equity, and inclusion. Throughout this workshop, we will discuss how our different lived experiences inform our organizing work. We will discuss intersectionality, define allyship, and provide a baseline for how to begin to make your organization a safe, more inclusive space for all.
9:00 am – 12 Noon Racial Equity Workshop for Visitors
2:00 pm – 5:00 pm Racial Equity Workshop for Locals
RACIAL EQUITY WORKSHOP TRAINERS
Lexi Coburn
Senior Training Associate, Indivisible Project
Supports the Indivisible Movement by: Supporting the overall training team by partnering with field organizers on direct requests from leaders and members Being a direct resource for leaders and members by providing suggestions and tactics for a wide variety of skills needed to organize effectively Helping to create and lead racial equity work as an immovable segment within our theory of change. Recharges by: Running full speed into the ocean Letting the natural sun provide clarity and peace in the most direct way Standing in community with my LGBTQIA+ activists of color
Carly Cass
Senior Training Associate, Indivisible Project
Supports the Indivisible Movement by: Working with my colleagues to create interactive ways to share important organizational goals and strategies. Conducting trainings in and also deepening my skills and comprehension related to race, equity, and inclusion within progressive spaces. Building relationships with our Indivisibles across the country to empower them to take vital action in their communities. Recharges by: Pretending to be a “Top Chef” in the kitchen Snuggling with her adorable pug named Gus Exploring new neighborhoods around her new hometown Chicago!
COLLECTIVE ACTION
@ Mile High Middle School from Noon – 2:00 pm
OPEN TO ALL.
Todd Mireles will facilitate an action at Mile High Middle School that proceeds to the Courthouse Square for a demonstration.
Participation in the workshops & Collective Action is not required to participate in the action.
SPONSORS
DONORS
Anonymous
Tina Blake
Dee Cohen
Harold Cohen
Jane Doyle
S. Finucane
James Kimes
Jennifer Longworth
Bill & Maria Lynam
Vicki McGaw
Rojean Madsen
Brita Martiny
Howard Mechanic
Members of Prescott indivisible
Marion Pack
Wendy Ratner
Carol Reynolds
B. Schneider
Deborah Settergren
Joe and Cindi Shaffer
Beth Smith
Gwen Williams
ORGANIZERS
PRESCOTT INDIVISIBLE
Prescott Indivisible is a non-partisan community which seeks to promote a progressive and inclusive agenda in support of human rights and the environment.
We are a local chapter of the Indivisible movement, which seeks to educate, share, and uphold liberty and justice for all with compassion and a dedication to truth.
We organize and advocate for peaceful, effective resistance at a local grassroots level following the strategy set forth in the Indivisible Guide.
ARIZONA INDIVISIBLE
Indivisible Arizona – Part of Indivisible.org a network of 5000+ groups across the Nation. With 40+ active groups in AZ, across the state: Sierra Vista, Sedona, Yuma, Prescott, Tucson, White Mountains, Greater Peoria, Scottsdale, Chandler, Flagstaff, Kingman, etc. Our AZ groups are all volunteer led and range from 9 people to 900 to even 9,000! We are a social justice organization – started to protect human rights in every area – protect the ACA, restore DACA, fight Muslim Ban, etc.
You may have heard of our town halls that were held to protect the ACA – empty chair town halls – Cluck the Flakey chicken, Tampon Bill at the AZ state leg (we use a lot of humor in our activism). Our groups also do election work by reaching out to Independents with issue based conversations – neighbor to neighbor. They host phone banks, forums, meet and greets, ice cream socials, traditional canvassing and neighbor to neighbor style, picnics, concerts, etc. We welcome anyone who wants to be a part of the process of changing our state.
INDIVISIBLE (NATIONAL)
Brought together by a practical guide to resist the Trump agenda, Indivisible is a movement of thousands of group leaders and more than a million members taking regular, iterative, and increasingly complex actions to resist the GOPs agenda, elect local champions, and fight for progressive policies.
They make calls. They show up. They speak with their neighbors. They organize. And through that work, they’ve built hundreds of mini-movements in support of their local values. And now, after practice, training, and repetition, they’ve built lasting power on their home turf and a massive, collective political muscle ready to be exercised each and every day in every corner of the country. Join your local Indivisible group.
TRICIA SAUER
Senior Statewide Organizer – AZ, Indivisible Project
Supports the Indivisible Movement by: Organizing – gathered Indivisible groups across the state to defeat 33 anti-democracy, anti-voting bills this year. Building authentic, deep relationships that nurture group leaders across every district, both rural and suburban. Strengthening coalitions to advance the progressive movement in Arizona. Recharges by: Every kind of dark chocolate imaginable. Reading disaster books. Seeking out beaches, lakes, water – heck even a water fountain will do!
CENTAE RICHARDS
Faculty / Director, Education and Professional Preparation – Prescott College
Centáe Richards, Ph.D. is a dynamic public speaker and professional development facilitator in the fields of sociology and education. A Caribbean-American epistemologist by trade with over 15 years of experience, Dr. Richards has invited students and communities to probe deeper and tackle some of the most challenging issues in the education and the public sphere. Dr. Richards holds a Bachelors of Arts in Human Communication from the University of Illinois at Chicago, a Master of Education in Educational Leadership from Prescott College, a Master of Arts in Bilingual Education, and the Doctor of Philosophy degree from Arizona State University. Dr. Richards specializes in the resolution of social issues of inclusion and diversity that often materialize in education spaces. He has previously worked with K-12 students, staff, teachers, principals, coordinators, operations managers, human resource specialists, district directors, school district office officials, and board members. Dr. Richards also holds multiple administrative education licenses, and has worked for many years as a public servant and administrator in the states of Oregon and Arizona. Fluent in English and Spanish, Dr Richards has served in the capacities of a mentor, educator, professor, and school district director.
His developing research agenda makes use of education theory and narrative inquiry for the benefit of social justice, agency, and personal growth for students in underserved and underprivileged factions of society in education. His current lines of research revolve around ethnographic representations of inner-city youth identities and their the education system. His research agenda strives to understand how culturally responsive pedagogy can help play a role in the cognitive and social development of urban youth. Dr. Richards currently looks for ways that adolescents use their ethnic and cultural identities in educational settings to create spaces of agency and alternative forms of learning that can inform and guide more traditional forms of curriculum in the classroom.