The Racial Justice Summit is more than an event—it’s a gathering place for transformation. Whether you are a long-time organizer, a community leader, a youth visionary, an educator, an artist, an elder, or someone newly engaging with this work, the Summit offers space to reflect, feel, learn, and act.

The Summit is both a unique professional development opportunity for staff across organizations and a powerful space for multiracial and intergenerational dialogue as well as collective visioning across justice movements—including restorative justice, gender justice, healing justice, immigration justice, disability justice, climate justice, economic justice, organizational equity, and more. We are deeply committed to engaging all people including youth, young adults, and elders as vital members of this community and amplifying their leadership, insights, and voice.

Importantly, we strongly believe that YWCA Madison’s holistic approach to justice—integrating the wisdom of the mind, heart, body, and spirit—holds transformative potential. This grounding invites each attendee into a personal journey of learning, unlearning, healing, and growth, which ripples outward to transform relationships, cultures, and systems.

At the Summit, you’ll find an emerging ecosystem, a space to unlearn what no longer serves, and a place to nurture what our futures require. You’ll be held in community as we explore both the inner and outer work of racial justice through many modalities, including dialogue, art, somatics, skill-building, and shared reflection. Together, we’ll practice what it means to live into liberation, not just as a destination, but as a way of being.

Come as you are. Bring your whole self. There is space for you here.