Summit Agenda

Tuesday, May 19

  • This panel will examine how Black reproductive justice remains grounded in collective liberation, not simply personal choice. We will discuss why feminism and intersectionality are not add-ons but core political commitments of the movement, and why identity alone cannot carry the framework forward without the structural analysis and organizing traditions that built it.

Wednesday, May 20

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  • This panel will examine how Black reproductive justice remains grounded in collective liberation, not simply personal choice. We will discuss why feminism and intersectionality are not add-ons but core political commitments of the movement, and why identity alone cannot carry the framework forward without the structural analysis and organizing traditions that built it.

Morning Sessions | 11:45 am - 1:30 pm

  • Explores effective power-building models for progressing from base-building with women who have incarcerated loved ones to a powerful constituency driving advocacy. This session outlines the tools and strategies that work together as a blueprint for fostering healing, leadership, and policy wins.

  • Equips participants to design and deliver localized rights education at the intersections of healthcare, housing, and family. Participants learn to craft effective messaging and adapt it for diverse audiences.

  • This session introduces Narrative Demand, an emerging insight from Narrative Power for Justice, alongside lessons from working with content creators translating Reproductive Justice into everyday language. Participants will learn how to identify narrative gaps and apply practical tools to build stories that reflect lived reality and expand what people believe is possible. The training will pair core concepts with interactive exercises to support real-world application

  • Centers the full spectrum of Black birthing experiences, exploring how gender identity, economic realities, immigration status, and other social conditions shape Black birth outcomes and possibilities. Participants will learn care models and knowledge-sharing tools to support Black birthing people across diverse lived experiences, cultivating collective strategies for autonomy, safety, and liberated Black futures.

  • Examines how the Black repro ecosystem can organize beyond crisis response toward lifelong body literacy and collective care, teaching participants to connect reproductive experiences (from menarche to menopause) to justice-centered organizing and healing traditions. Participants gain strategies such as narrative mapping, body literacy tools, cyclical care practices, and intergenerational leadership models to sustain communities across life stages.

  • Teaches participants to map the forces shaping sociopolitical landscapes (from opposition movements to key targets for change). Participants then learn to translate these insights into actionable strategies for organizational impact.

  • Explores how trans and gender-expansive experiences expand the Black repro ecosystem, creating new pathways for truth-telling, healing, and collective well-being. Participants will examine how storytelling and narrative power transforms stigma into solidarity and shifts collective consciousness. Through frameworks rooted in lived experience and creative expression, this workshop helps attendees craft narratives that honor identity and mobilize communities toward liberation

  • Examines the fundamentals of effective community organizing, teaching participants how to move beyond single-issue campaigns to build collective power that shifts systems from the ground up. Participants gain an understanding of how to power map, recruit leaders, and design multi-phase campaigns to cultivate and sustain grassroots power.

  • Introduces the core principles, political lineage, and living praxis of Black feminism as a tool for liberation, guiding participants in applying Black feminist frameworks to build movements and power. Participants explore historical lineages, from the Combahee River Collective to contemporary grassroots organizing, and learn to connect these roots to current struggles.

  • Equips participants with skills to engage policy as an arena for change by teaching how to write, advocate for, and influence policy rooted in Black repro values. Participants practice drafting policy language with templates, lobbying simulations, base-building timelines, and community-led policymaking exercises within resistant systems.

Afternoon Sessions | 3:00 pm - 4:45 pm

  • Explores the connection between HIV advocacy and reproductive rights, guiding participants in designing education and care programs that honor sexuality, pleasure, and community power. Grounded in harm reduction principles, participants will learn practical strategies to build and strengthen programming that integrates holistic care across prevention, education, and advocacy efforts.

  • Breaks down how 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) organizations can work together to advance Black repro ecosystem goals through electoral engagement. Participants will learn how to connect community organizing with electoral and canvassing strategies to build lasting power and win on policy priorities

  • Confronts how narratives like "Make America Healthy Again" and "my birth, my choice" individualism weaken reproductive discourse and collective power. Participants learn how birth justice organizations can resist by centering interdependence, shared responsibility, and collective liberation while exploring later abortion care, interdependence framing, and case study-based methods to dismantle individualistic frameworks.

  • Teaches participants how to move from classroom instruction to systems-level change using tools to advocate for inclusive, medically accurate, and justice-centered sex education policies. Participants learn to identify leverage points within school boards, local councils, and state curriculum processes to drive structural shifts that protect and empower young people.

  • Celebrates artists as movement strategists, teaching participants to use creative disciplines to drive organizing, sustain healing, and shape public consciousness within and beyond the Black repro ecosystem. Participants learn creative practices that build power and strengthen community ties through arts-based action.

  • Demonstrates how White Christian Nationalism erodes collective power by disconnecting communities from their ancestral spiritual roots. Participants learn to identify and counter the impact of White Christian Nationalism by reclaiming faith as a justice tool, identifying specific impacts, practicing ancestral connection exercises, and building faith-based practices that heal and strengthen movements.

  • Examines how harm happens and trust breaks down in movement spaces rooted in Black feminist and RJ traditions. Participants learn practical tools to shift from individual and organizational cultures of disposability to collective care and repair, building accountability and healing practices that restore trust and sustain movements.

  • Grounded in histories of self-determination, this session demystifies self-managed abortion and equips participants to design mutual aid systems that sustain communities through crisis. Participants will learn safety protocols, knowledge-sharing strategies, and coordination tools drawn from effective abortion access networks. Through practical exercises, they’ll explore how to scale collective care, autonomy, and protection in their own communities.

  • Grounded in histories of self-determination, this session demystifies all abortions, including self-managed abortion and abortion later in pregnancy, and equips participants to design systems that sustain communities through crisis. Participants will learn safety protocols, knowledge-sharing strategies, and coordination tools drawn from local abortion funds and abortion access networks. Through practical exercises, they’ll explore how to scale collective care, autonomy, and protection in their own communities.

  • Shows how communities reshape reproductive narratives by overcoming systemic barriers and building collective power. Participants learn to adapt and replicate successful campaigns through case studies, analyzing what worked, anticipating challenges, and scaling strategies across contexts.

  • Examines the fundamentals of effective community organizing, teaching participants how to move beyond single-issue campaigns to build collective power that shifts systems from the ground up. Participants gain an understanding of how to power map, recruit leaders, and design multi-phase campaigns to cultivate and sustain grassroots power.

Mainstage | 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

Elder Panel, Fireside Chat: Forged In The Fire

This intimate fireside chat brings together founders and longtime leaders of the reproductive justice movement to reflect on the experiences that have shaped decades of organizing, advocacy, and culture shift. Drawing from deep wells of practice, our elders will share lessons learned through victories, setbacks, and the ongoing work of building power in the face of shifting political landscapes. From navigating coalition and conflict, to sustaining movements over time, to holding fast to vision in moments of uncertainty, this conversation offers a rare opportunity to hear directly from those who have helped define reproductive justice as we know it. Grounded in reflection and guided by lived experience, the panel will also consider how these lessons continue to inform the present moment, and what it takes to carry this work forward with clarity, and courage.

Thursday, May 21

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Morning Sessions | 10:00 am - 11:30 am

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Morning Sessions | 11:45 am - 1:30 pm

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Afternoon Sessions | 3:00 pm - 4:45 pm

Imagining New Worlds: Fireside Chat with Dr. Ruha Benjamin and Michele Goodwin

In a time when reaction often replaces reflection, this fireside conversation invites us to remember that imagination is not a luxury—it is what architects the future. With Dr. Ruha Benjamin, we will explore how creativity, storytelling, and speculative thinking become tools for justice rather than escape. Together, we’ll examine what it means to engage the “battlefield of dreaming”—to challenge the limits of what feels politically possible and to resist systems that police not only our bodies, but our visions of the future. How do we move beyond critique to creation? What practices help us design worlds rooted in dignity, equity, and collective care? This conversation centers imagination as a disciplined, strategic force, one capable of reshaping institutions, culture, and the stories we tell about who belongs and what freedom requires.