Adaku Utah is Honoring Interconnection at the 2025 Racial Justice Summit

We are so excited to welcome Adaku Utah to Madison as a Featured Practitioner at this year’s Racial Justice Summit on September 26, in-person at Monona Terrace. Adaku’s reflections speak powerfully to the heart of why we gather and what it means to sustain our movements together:

“I'm feeling deeply honored and excited to participate in this year’s Racial Justice Summit. In a time where fragmentation and burnout are so present in our movements, I’m looking forward to being in a space where we can recalibrate our pace with purpose, reconnect to what matters, and build relationships that feel rooted in trust, care, and collective power.

My offering centers around healing, collective care, and transformative solidarity—all grounded in the belief that liberation isn’t something we fight for in isolation. It’s something we practice together, across roles, lineages, and ecosystems.

This year’s theme, Get Together: Becoming the Liberation Ecosystem, resonates deeply with how I approach this work—helping organizers, healers, cultural workers, and strategists remember that we are not separate parts, but living, interdependent strands in a larger web. My session will invite us to deepen that interconnection, listen to our bodies and communities, and explore how we sustain the long haul through collective healing and organizing.”

Adaku reminds us that the Summit offers an incredible opportunity for us to build an ecosystem where healing, solidarity, and collective care can flourish. Their session will invite us to reconnect with purpose, deepen interdependence, and practice liberation as a shared journey and lifelong commitment.

We are grateful for Adaku’s leadership and wisdom, and we look forward to the ways their offering will strengthen our collective work toward justice and liberation.