This conference will offer students and community members opportunities to deepen their understanding of the solidarity economy in theory and practice, access concrete skill-building (fundraising, redistribution, community investment, navigating conflict), and reflect on the importance of organizing cross-class movements for economic justice at UM and in the broader community.
Session Is Over
March 28, 2025 - 9:30am
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10:45am
School of Social Work Building - 1840 (Educational Conference Center - Room 1840)
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We will start by moving outdoors, where Tera John (member of the Grand Traverse Bay of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians) will open with smudging and a water song. After moving back inside, Laura Valencia and Jerrod MacFarlane (Resource Generation) and Jesse Carr (Ginsberg Center) will share about the purpose of this conference and our collaboration. Then, led by Sheri Wander (Peace House) and Yodit Mesfin Johnson (NEW), we will turn to Reckoning and Remembering. We will learn about the dynamics of the economic divide in Washtenaw County through stories of their work. We will close with a Ritual for Transformation offered by Sherina Rodriguez-Sharpe and Chace Morris from The Tetra. After, we will have 5 mins of quiet time before moving forward.
Important: Participants are requested to arrive early for breakfast. Participants are requested to move in the session with reverence and solemnity, so we can activate parts of ourselves we do not always relate to.
Session Is Over
March 28, 2025 - 9:30am
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10:45am
Join us for our opening plenary session! We will be welcomed by Resource Generation Michigan and the Ginsberg Center. Then, we will ground ourselves in the context of our building together and what we mean by 'solidarity economy.' Speakers will include Sheri Wander from Peace House, Yodit Mesfin Johnson from Nonprofit Enterprise at Work, and Jesse Carr from the Ginsberg Center.
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