9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Opening Virtual Keynote
Kazu Haga
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 is nationally known as the author of Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm and Fierce Vulnerability: Healing from Trauma, Emerging from Collapse.
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 - 12:00 PM
Connection & Reflective Processing Spaces
As part of the Racial Justice Summit, 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.
Many of these sessions are affinity-based, allowing participants to reflect and connect within shared lived experiences and identities in a supportive and grounded environment.
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
Time for Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Virtual Breakout Sessions
As part of the Virtual Day of the Racial Justice Summit, attendees are invited to participate in live breakout sessions hosted on Zoom. These sessions offer meaningful opportunities to dive deeper into the Summit’s key themes through interactive learning, dialogue, and practice.
Facilitated by movement leaders, cultural workers, and justice practitioners, each session will explore topics such as abolition, healing justice, organizational transformation, environmental justice, and more.
Engagement modalities will vary and may include facilitator presentations, small-group conversations, journaling prompts, somatic and mindfulness practices, collaborative visioning, or creative reflection. Whether you’re seeking to expand your understanding, build practical skills, or co-create possibilities for liberation, the breakout spaces offer something for everyone.
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Closing Keynote: Generative Dialogue
Ejeris Dixon, Khury Petersen-Smith, and Silky Shah
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.
Ejeris Dixon is an organizer, writer, and strategist for the liberation of Queer and Trans people of color and serves as the host of the Fascism Barometer, a podcast and learning hub that discusses fascism’s rise in the United States, and how to organize against it.
Khury Petersen-Smith is Co-Director of the New Internationalism Project at IPS where he researches U.S. empire, borders, and migration and strategizes with activists to work against the violence that the U.S. carries out and supports around the world, particularly in Palestine, the Middle East, and in the Pacific.
Silky Shah is the Executive Director of the Detention Watch Network, a national coalition building power to end immigrant detention in the United States, and the author of Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition.
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.
