Background artwork: Daniel Lind Ramos, "VICTORIA EN COSTA SERENA" (2010) - Charcoal on canvas
THE CONVERSATIONS


Thriving Beyond the Performative: A Community Plan for Small and Midsize Culturally Grounded Organizations


The Spirit, Principles and Power that Built Our Community Cultural Organizations: The Elders Speak
“Everyone has the right to freely participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.”
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Article 27, Section 1)
Our four-part series, CONVERSATIONS ON CULTURE: RACE, ART, MYTH = JUSTICE focuses on critical issues affecting the lives and well-being of our communities and institutions. Marta Moreno Vega and a diverse group of thought and action influencers, designed conversations reflecting the nation’s racial, cultural, and innovative thought diversity.
As the inheritors of the liberatory movements engaged in the continued call for racial, economic, and social justice, now amplified by the MBLM, it is our commitment to continue engaging in the work to achieve racial, cultural, economic, and social justice for historically disenfranchised communities. It is imperative that we unite the racial and cultural spectrum of the nation’s movements that seek racial and social justice at all levels of our society to reach our objectives.
Independently and collectively we must ask ourselves – how are we defining our work, and more importantly, how is our work evolving at this moment?
These conversations explore the ways in which we continue to secure a future with global and national allies. They explore our past with our elder panel, our present with our panel on the new generation of activists and movements, and unifying our movements and power for action. They also explore new equitable funding frameworks and the legal pathway towards justice for all.
OUR OBJECTIVE IS ACTION
to affect positive change, eradicate the systemic injustices that continue to oppress and limit the possibilities of the majority of the nation’s Black, Afro Latin, Latinx, Native, Asian, LGBTTQ+/Two Spirit, People with Disabilities, and economically poor White communities is the objective. We are living in a critical moment in our history. The state of our organizations, the health and wellbeing of our communities, and the very fabric of our democracy is at stake. Join the conversation!
The MOMENT is NOW!
MEET THE PANELISTS
Amalia Mesa-Bains
Napoleon Jones Henderson
Jaune Quick–to–See Smith
Margo Machida
Alejandra Duque Cifuentes
Amin Husain
Michelle Ramos
David Martine
YK Hong
Ani Rivera
Kimi Mojica
Dudley Cocke
Ashley Walden Davis
Jeff Chang
Kate Fowler
María de León
Marian Taylor Brown, PhD.
Alvin Starks
Billy Ocasio
Gonzalo Casals
Leticia Peguero
Margaret S. Morton
Susan Taylor Batten
Derecka Purnell
Juan Cartagena
Maricruz Rivera-Clemente
Monifa Bandele
Lumumba Akinwole-Bandele
Sandra Rodríguez-Cotto
Juan González
Sam Cruz
Rosa Clemente
Esmeralda Simmons Esq.
Isis Rakia Mattei, Esq.
Hy Thurman
José “Cha Cha” Jiménez
Ray Santiesteban
Jasmine Leeward
Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi
Denise Oliver
Madonna Thunderhawk
Tailinh Agoyo
Cliff Chambliss, III
Jonathan W. Soto
Karl B. Rodney
Romero Rodríguez
David Comissiong
Jesús “Chucho” García
Jorge Ramírez Reyna
Palmira Ríos
Humberto Brown
Kali Akuno
Christopher Cozier - Trinidad
Nelson González - Aruba
Sharelly Emanuelson - Dutch Caribbean
Simon Tatum - TN, USA
Oneika Russell - Jamaica
José Rodríguez (Ifa Name: Agboola)
Alexander LaSalle
State Senator Kevin S. Parker
José Arturo Ballester Panelli
Diógenes Ballester
Solagabde Popoola
Paulo Bispo
Marcia Minter
Iya Oseye Mchawi
Shantrelle P. Lewis
Neyda Martinez Sierra
Gloriann Sacha Antonetty-Lebrón
Manuela Arciniegas
Jochi Melero Ifádoñí Oshitolá (Babalawo)
Angela Jorge-Quiñones
Zeno Millet
Rowland Abiodun
Charles Daniel Dawson
John Mason
Nancy Raquel Mirabal
Ebenecer López Ruyol
James R. Morgan III
Michael Manswell
Juan López Bauzá
Chief Baba Neil Clarke
Lorelei Williams
Ayoka Wiles
MEET THE MODERATORS
Lowery Sims
Amy Andrieux
Melody Capote
Neyda Martínez
Olga Garay-English
Olga Chapman-Rivera
Tiffany Turner
Esmeralda Simmons, Esq.
Ben Fink
Sasha Dees
Isis Rakia Mattei, Esq.
Marangeli Mejía-Rabell
Jossianna Arroyo
Marta Moreno Vega
Kate Fowler
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