Ayomi Obuseh
Ayomi Obuseh is a community organizer and political strategist based in Madison, Wisconsin. Her work focuses on building developing community leadership, and helping people turn their lived experiences into collective power. For the past decade, she has been organizing around issues of racial justice, civic engagement, and community empowerment. She is passionate about creating spaces where people can question and feel empowered to shape the systems that effect their lives, imagine alternatives, and build power to create necessary change.
Ayomi grew up in Ramstein, Germany and has lived in Madison for the last 10 years. Outside of organizing, Ayomi loves art history, cooking Nigerian food, hiking, and learning about different cultures ideally through travel.
Her guiding belief is: “You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.” Angela Davis
In-Person | PM Session B
2:45 PM - 4:00 PM
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Facilitated By: Ayomi Obuseh
Audience: BIPOC
Freedom dreaming asks us to imagine a world beyond the conditions that currently exist and challenges us to envision and create new ways of living, caring, and building together.
Through this workshop, participants will explore how our grief, frustration, and experiences with current systems can become a starting point for identifying the conditions we want to transform and imagining what we want to build in their place. Drawing on Angela Davis’s reminder that “you have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world, and you have to do it all the time,” we will practice imagining what becomes possible when we refuse to limit our vision to what currently exists.
Participants will examine how our understanding of systems can help us identify opportunities for abolition, practice mutual aid, engage in repair, and build solidarity. Together, we will explore what it means to move from individual experiences of harm toward collective healing, community power, and the creation of a world where our communities have what they need to thrive.