Preparing for Your Virtual Experience
RingCentral & Zoom
Get Set Up Now in RingCentral
The majority of the Virtual experience will be accessed through an online platform called RingCentral. Check your inbox! You should also have recently received an email — Subject Line: "Your Access to Virtual Racial Justice Summit - YWCA Madison” — providing you with direct access to the RingCentral platform. Open that email and Click the Orange Button.
You will be invited to (re)access your RingCentral account. Once you set or enter a password, you can customize your RingCentral account by adding a profile picture, bio, pronouns, and more. When everything is set up, you will be see the Summit “waiting” page. Do not be worried if you cannot access anything else.
The Virtual Summit platform will open at 8:15 AM on October 7.
Important Note: Although the platform will open on the 7th, live virtual experiences won’t start until 9am on Thursday, October 8.
Once the platform is open, you will be able to explore the Expo area, use the networking integration, and get oriented.
Important Note: RingCentral works best on the latest version of Google Chrome.
If you don’t have Chrome, you can download it here: www.google.com/chrome
RingCentral Pre-Event Check
The RingCentral Pre-Event Check is a tool available to you to test the setup of your local device so that potential incompatibilities can be identified before the Summit starts, or diagnosed more easily during an event. This tool can test:
Browser compatibility
Speakers, microphone and camera
Connectivity (VPN, firewall, anti-virus)
Stream quality
For additional guidance to support your virtual experience, please see the Virtual Guide.
Get Set Up Now in Zoom
All of the Breakout Sessions and the Virtual Connection & Processing Spaces are happening in Zoom.
If you don’t already have Zoom, you can download it and create a basic account for free here: www.zoom.us
9:00 AM | Opening Keynote with Kazu Haga
RingCentral Main Stage
We will be learning alongside Kazu Haga, a trainer, educator, student, and practitioner with over 25 years of experience in nonviolence and restorative justice, for our opening virtual keynote.
Haga weaves lessons from decades of Kingian nonviolence practice and trauma healing into his movement building work. His voice and commitment to nonviolent practice are vital in this moment, offering critical insights into how we confront and transform violent systems without dehumanizing ourselves or others. Through this practice, we deepen our capacity to build solidarity and sustainable power across our movements worldwide.
This experience will be held by our featured facilitator and local practitioner,
kristy kumar
11:00 AM | Connection & Reflective Processing Spaces
Zoom
Connection & Reflective Processing Spaces offer attendees dedicated time to pause, reflect, and engage in meaningful dialogue. These spaces are curated to support emotional processing, self-awareness, and community care as we navigate complex topics together and are
The link to join the zoom for each space will be pinned at the top of the chat in each corresponding Session on the RingCentral Platform.
12:00 PM | Lunch Break
12:30 PM | Virtual Break Out Sessions
Zoom
A variety of virtual breakout sessions will take place during this time. Your session assignment have been sent to your email.
The link to join the zoom for each session will be pinned at the top of the chat in each of the corresponding Sessions on the RingCentral Platform.
Did you miss session selections? We have space for you!
All breakout sessions have space to accommodate attendees who did not make a session selection in advance. Any remaining space is available on a first-come, first-served basis on the virtual day.
Please see the virtual help desk if you need help finding and session to attend.
3:00 PM | Closing Generative Dialogue with Ejeris Dixon, Khury Peterson-Smith, & Silky Shah
RingCentral Main Stage
The virtual day will conclude with a generative dialogue with movement leaders and visionaries: Ejeris Dixon, Khury Petersen-Smith, and Silky Shah supported by featured facilitator, Ray Broad.
Together, they will bring their experiences from within interconnected movements for justice into one conversation, drawing connections and lessons across their work while continuing to cast bold visions for the solidarity and coalition necessary for our collective liberation.
5:30 PM | Summit Birthday Fiesta
Casa Zaragoza: 1824 S. Park St., Madison, WI 53713
We’re turning 25, and we’re celebrating together! Join us for the Summit 25th Birthday Fiesta, a special celebration honoring 25 years of learning and unlearning, collective healing, multiracial solidarity building, and community at the Racial Justice Summit.
Come celebrate with us at Casa Zaragoza from 5:30 PM to 9:00 PM on October 8th following the virtual closing. Our fiesta features DJ FNÜ, dancing, a taco and nacho bar, birthday cake, and plenty of joy as we honor where we’ve been and celebrate where we’re going together.