REGISTRATION FEES:
EARLY BIRD – through 6/28:
1-2 from same institution $495 each, 3 or more from same institution $465 each

REGULAR – 6/29 through 7/12:
1-2 from same institution $550 each, 3 or more from same institution $520 each


SCHEDULE:

Thursday, July 26th – Movement Building

“One individual is not enough. It takes organization . . . to do what has to be done.”²

8:00 – 8:45 Registration & Continental Breakfast

9:00 – 6:15 Plenaries, Track Sessions, Small Groups (includes lunch and breaks)

Free evening – dinner on own


Friday, July 27th – Leadership Development

“Those who have walked a certain path should know some things . . . that they can pass on, that others can use to walk the path a little better.”³

8:00 – 8:45 Continental Breakfast

9:00 – 6:00 Plenary, Panel Discussion, Workshops (includes lunch and breaks)

Retirement Dinner & Dance Reception Honoring Anne Stewart (additional cost)


Saturday, July 28th – Intersectionality

“In order for oppressed people to become part of a society that is meaningful, the system under which we now exist has to be radically changed.”⁴

8:00 – 8:45 Continental Breakfast

9:00 – 3:30 Plenary, Track Sessions, Small Groups, Closing (includes lunch and breaks)

WORKSHOP SESSIONS ON 3 TRACKS:

• Track 1 – for participants with interested individuals or a small ad‐hoc group in their institution who need to strategize next steps.

• Track 2 – for participants with a diversity committee in their institution who need to move toward an institutional mandate to do antiracism work.

• Track 3 – for participants with a trained antiracism team who need to go deeper in their organizing toward institutional transformation.

ACCOMMODATIONS:

• Convenient & affordable housing at University of Chicago Max Palevsky Residential Commons, 1.5 blocks south of McCormick on the corner of 56th and University Streets.

• Just ten years old, this dorm is fully accessible and offers air conditioning and wi-fi.

• All accommodations are single-room suites (each room shares a bath with one other room).

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1. Morris, Aldon, interview with Ella Baker 8/28/1978, New York NY.
2. Ella Baker, 1974 speech (from video footage on ellabakercenter.org)
3. Ransby, Barbara, Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision, University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC, 2003, p. 357
4. Ibid, Introduction