Celebrating 25 Years of Learning & Movement Building

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#Summit2026

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25th Annual Racial Justice Summit

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Celebrating 25 Years of Learning & Movement Building ✶ #Summit2026 ✶ 25th Annual Racial Justice Summit ✶

A promotional poster for an in-person experience event scheduled for October 7. The background features a cosmic scene with celestial elements, plants, and mystical symbols.
An announcement for a virtual experience happening on October 8, featuring a cosmic background with a planet, surrounded by green plants and flowers, with digital design elements.

The Summit Booklet

Check out the booklet for more information on the Racial Justice Summit, keynotes, and YWCA Madison!

There are also grounding pieces and reflective processing practices included in the booklet.

Download the Booklet

Terrence Adenyanju

Featured Artist

Terrence Adeyanju is a visual Artist, Muralist, and Designer currently based in Madison, WI. His Works are inspired by existentialism, Identity, and our cosmic connection to nature. Terrence is heavily inspired by symbolism, vintage matchboxes, and manga, which he uses as a tool to explore his visual identity.

About the Artwork

The feeding Hummingbirds symbolize the collective need for renewal and healing. They are feeding on the nectar (love/energy) from the flowering consciousness with the intention of bringing that expansion back to their loved ones. The beaming eyes are a projection/vision of the journey to come. The doors open to more awareness, the grieving eye that comes with truths on the other side, and the heart that grows from these realizations.

All in all, art is a call to action to open our hearts and to lead with love for the sake of humanity.

Celebrating 25 Years of the Racial Justice Summit

Journey through the Summit Over the Years Archives to experience the people, stories, and moments that have shaped our journey of learning and movement building on a path towards collective liberation.

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  • Collage of various images and text advocating social justice, cultural pride, environmental conservation, and community activism, including photographs of people protesting, empowering women, and nature scenes, with phrases like 'change the story,' 'belonging,' 'co-liberation,' and 'women's rights.'

    2025

    Get Together: Becoming the Liberation Ecosystem

  • Digital artwork of two women with brown skin and long braids, their heads back-to-back, holding colorful circular fans, set against a vibrant geometric background with neon hues and patterns, and a large circular shape resembling a rainbow in the background.

    2024

    Reflect, Connect, Create New Worlds

  • A hand holding a pot filled with pink and white flowers, with Earth seen in space behind them and a colorful galaxy background.

    2023

    Creating New Possibilities for Intersectional Justice, Collective Healing, and Liberation

  • Illustration of a person with curly hair seen from behind, listening to music through headphones, surrounded by handwritten text and five colorful icons representing the sun, tree, fish, flower, and a globe.

    2022

    Weaving Our Pasts, Present & Emergent Futures for Racial Justice and Co-liberation

  • Colorful illustration featuring a woman with flowers in her hair, a hummingbird, large flowers, butterflies, and abstract elements, all set against a vibrant background with pinks, purples, and greens.

    2021

    Reimagining Us: Unapologetic Love, Transformative Justice & Radical Imagination

  • Digital illustration of a woman with her eyes closed, hands crossed over her chest, and a large afro with a yellow flower, surrounded by fists and protest signs, including one with a rainbow flag and another with the words 'Protest', with text 'Centering Blackness' on her afro

    2020

    Centering Blackness: A Path to Build Collective Power & Justice for All

  • Colorful artwork of three diverse children representing different races, each with plants growing from their heads, symbolizing growth and unity. Title reads 'Los Niñosxs del Munjo' and subtitle 'The Children of the World'.

    2019

    Transforming Our Future: Remembering Our Legacies, Reimaging Our Lives

  • Collage of hand-drawn and colored portraits of women and men, each with handwritten or typed quotes about activism, equality, and empowerment.

    2018

    Reclaiming Our Story

  • A colorful artwork depicting a group of children and adults, possibly from an African community, set against a vibrant background with patterns and textures.

    2017

    Living Our Racial Justice Values: Building Collective Liberation

  • Promotional poster for the 2016 Racial Justice Summit, titled 'Changing the Narrative,' focusing on changing how race is discussed. The event is hosted by YWCA on September 29-30 at Monona Terrace. The poster features three women of color and includes text emphasizing YWCA's mission to eliminate racism and empower women.

    2016

    Changing the Narrative

Thank You Sponsors!

The Racial Justice Summit is made possible through the generosity and partnership of organizations that believe in the power of learning, movement building, and collective action. We are deeply grateful to our sponsors for investing in this work and helping create a space where our community can gather, learn, and imagine bold futures together.

Sustaining Sponsors

Friend Sponsors

Madison Wisconsin Institutes for Healing of Racism
in Memoriam of Richard Davis

Media Sponsors

Do you and your organization want to stand in solidarity with YWCA Madison by ensuring the Summit continues and grows over the next 25 years?

Contact Chief Development Officer, Vera Lewis to learn more about being a sponsor at vlewis@ywcamadison.org

I'm Interested in Sponsoring the Summit!