June 23 - 29, 2025
Online & Worldwide

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Still doom scrolling and feeling isolated in the fight for justice?

Let’s get resourced, connected, and inspired by creative, effective leaders from across the globe!

Join us for the 2025 Strategy & Solidarity Global Summit to strengthen your skills and find new tools to hold the line for racial & social justice.

Together we'll dream just, sustainable, thriving futures into being and find joy in solidarity.

Program highlights

  • DEI & Narrative Warfare

    THERESA LOGAN &
    CARLOS KAREEM WINDHAM
    Portland, Oregon, USA

    Explore how the word "equity" gets weaponized as a wild card to win narrative battles, and strengthen your ability to analyze and counter narrative attacks on racial & social justice efforts.

  • Style as Rebellion

    CARLOS KAREEM WINDHAM &
    JANICIA FRANCIS
    New York, New York, USA

    Throughout American history, Blackness, queerness, and Native understanding of fashion and gender have served as declarations of pride, and declarations of war. Join us to explore the liminal spaces in fashion, and close out our global summit, in style.

  • Say More Than Their Name: Storytelling With Accountability & Power

    BRANDY WALKER, BRAND WORTHY SOLUTIONS
    Chicago, Illinois, USA

    In an era where DEI is under fire and brand trust is fragile, this workshop equips mission-driven organizations with tools to tell stories that are culturally relevant, community-rooted, and resistant to performative harm.

  • Dreaming the Future is Not a Privilege—It’s a Priority

    ANNA MOUCHREF, U4 SOCIAL
    LISBON, PORTUGAL

    In times of burnout and systemic fatigue, the act of imagining becomes a radical return to self and collective visioning. Dreaming is not a luxury for the privileged—it is a responsibility, a healing act, and a generative tool for designing a future built by us, not just imposed upon us.

  • Sacred Rage for people pleasers in an Apocalypse

    AMANI WILL, INNER EQUITY COACHING COUNCIL
    Oakland, California, USA

    Join us in this 2 hour, online, ritual workshop exploring the purpose, power and needs of anger. We combine the practices of Parts Work, Mindfulness, Embodiment & Resilience practices, and Movement Strategy, to identify, befriend, & alchemize our scared rage as a community.

  • Twerk School

    NISI HARREL, TWERK N FAB
    Portland, Oregon, USA

    Join Twerk School to master Twerknique, learn twerk drills, and connect with your body in a fun, empowering session.

  • Disability Justice & Access Art

    DEANNA PARVIN YADOLLAHI, DISABILITY JUSTICE DREAMING
    Orange County, California, USA

    Learn more about Disability Justice and Access Art directly from the perspectives of Disabled people. We will be talking about the social model of disability, a brief history of disability rights and Disability Justice, and the Question Access framework.

  • What Are We Going To Do? Building Resilient Community in 2025

    JAMILA THOMPSON
    Portland, Oregon, USA

    Whether you're seeking to join an existing community or feeling called to start something new, this workshop will help you gain clarity around your vision, values, and role in collective spaces.

  • The Present & Historic Heritage of Our Harmony

    ALONZO CHADWICK SR, ZOULFUL MUZIC / ZOULFUL CONSULTING
    Portland, Oregon, USA

    Through captivating live performance, insightful discussion, and hands-on creative exercises, we will uncover the deep historical roots, innovative spirit, and unifying power of this Black musical tradition. Prepare to be inspired as we delve into the stories, innovators, and future possibilities that comprise The Historic Heritage of our Harmony.

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DEI was never enough

We must not only hold the line, but prepare to advance the fight for racial and social justice in the face of fascism and state violence.

Our 3 tracks of inquiry will help us reach beyond the C-Suite, and their performative policies, to build stronger, broader coalitions ready to build the future we all deserve.

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3 lines of inquiry & exploration

  • Hold the line

    How do we hold the line for racial & social justice through a hostile government takeover?

    How do we build relationships, community and powerful international coalitions in this age of virtual burnout, information overload and social isolation?

    What are the practical skills necessary for forging solidarity within and across communities, workplaces and sectors?

    What does solidarity look like in our intimate relationships with loved ones, and with ourselves?

  • Future Vision

    Is dreaming a form of resistance or a form of bypassing?

    How do we nurture and sustain our dreams through heartbreak and injustice?

    Where do we find faith that a just and thriving future for all is still possible?

    How do we build transformative communities of faith, beyond the traditional systems & harms of organized religion?

    How can we move toward creation, growth, and affirmation of life?

  • Joy in Solidarity

    How do you relish the beauty and pleasure of life while enduring its heartbreaks and devastation?

    Can fun and joy be solidarity strategies too? Can you have true solidarity without them?

    How do we make solidarity sexy? How do we connect to the sensuous nature of building solidarity and learning to create in the margins?

    How many cities can host IRL Strategy & Solidarity meetups during our global summit?

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Registration Information

  • Join any live session for free!

    Find the session you want to attend in the SUMMIT PROGRAM.

    Open the full session info page.

    Click the “Join us live” button to sign up for that session.

  • Summit passes are available on a SLIDING-SCALE of one-time payments or 12-month payment plans.

    Summit Pass registration at all levels includes:

    • easy access to all live sessions,

    • 12 months of access to session recordings,

    • a private community discussion forum to connect with presenters and network with other participants.

    • bonus content in our community resource library,

    • ongoing community building activities, practice sessions, and support for the next year.

    Those who can pay a bit more help support the scholarship fund for those who cannot afford to pay anything.

  • Team registration offers incredible value for departments and small organizations that are committed to holding the line for racial & social justice in these precarious times, including:

    • All the same benefits of individual registration for up-to 50 members of your department or organization (leadership team, equity council, board, front line staff, etc.).

    • A private team breakout space within the Strategy & Solidarity app.

    • A complementary Leadership Strategy Session to plan your next steps after the summit.

    Click here for a printable Team Registration Packet to share with your team.

    Please direct any questions about team registration to info@strategyandsolidarity.org.

  • We know even the reduced sliding scale fee may be beyond some community members’ current means.

    Here are some options for financial assistance to support your participation.

    • Use professional development funds.
      If they are not hostile to racial justice work, ask your employer if there are professional development funds available to pay your registration fee, and explain how participating in this summit would benefit your work.

    • Apply for a scholarship. We have a limited number of scholarships available. We will prioritize scholarship funds for people with disabilities, and those living outside of the United States and Western Europe.

    • Join our affiliate program. You can earn 33% commission on every registration that comes in through your affiliate link, and we will comp your summit registration if you successfully recruit 3 additional paid participants.

  • All virtual sessions will have Zoom auto-captions and transcripts enabled.

    If you require additional accommodations to participate in the summit, such as ASL interpretation, please use this form to submit your request by June 16, 2025.

Sliding Scale Registration

  • Supporter

    Low sliding scale registration option for students, folks who are unemployed or anyone else who needs it.

    $99 or 12 monthly payments of $10.

    (That’s only about $2 per session.)

    Register as a Summit Organizer

  • Builder

    Low sliding scale registration option for those with limited personal or professional development resources.

    $199 or 12 monthly payments of $20.

    (That’s about $5 per session.)

    Register as a Summit Builder

  • Connecter

    Mid-range sliding scale option for those with moderate professional development or personal resources.

    $349 or 12 monthly payments of $35.

    (That’s only about $8 per session.)

    Register as a Summit Connecter

  • Sustainer

    Full fee for those with ample professional development or personal resources.

    $499 or 12 monthly payments of $50.

    (That’s about $13 per session.)

    Register as a Summit Sustainer

  • Dreamer

    Full fee for those with abundant resources who want to support the scholarship fund.

    $999 or 12 monthly payments of $99.

    (That’s still only about $20 per session.)

    Register as a Summit Dreamer

  • Team Registration

    Registration up-to 50 members of your team, and get a private team breakout space and Leadership Strategy Session to discuss your next steps after the summit.

    Register your team

FAQs

  • We must absolutely hold the line and continue to fight for racial and social justice in the face of fascism and state violence.

    And, many of the corporate and public agency Diversity Equity and Inclusion programs now in the US apartheid regime’s crosshairs, weren’t actually creating significant structural change.

    DEI initiatives varied wildly. They often ranged from deeply problematic and harmful, to empty performances and tokenizing gestures with no meaningful follow through on commitments.

    Occasionally, some managed to implement helpful staff & customer support programs.

    A rare few even succeeded in crafting brilliant strategic policy interventions to mitigate racial disparities in housing, healthcare, education, employment and beyond.

    Sadly, none of these efforts was ever going to be enough to reach our real goals.

    Collective liberation and the creation of a vibrant, abundant, thriving future for all, requires diverse & holistic approaches to reclaiming our humanity from the oppressive triumvirate of white supremacy, patriarchy and capitalism.

    DEI was a bandaid on the beast.

    We need more deeply radical strategies for grounded solidarity in our workplaces, neighborhoods, communities and families to survive the current political moment, and to create the thriving future that we know is still possible.

    DEI was never enough is a rallying cry for all those who know we need to keep pushing for more RIGHT NOW, not just fighting to protect what was, but fiercely dreaming, defending, building and creating what will be.

  • The Strategy & Solidarity Collective is a growing global community of leaders, activists, artists, and practitioners dedicated to creating a more just and thriving world.

    We provide holistic services for personal and organizational transformation to create new possibilities for the future.

    Our members are activists, organizers, coaches, consultants, practitioners, professionals and leaders doing real front line work in our communities every day.

    We aren’t influencers or personalities, we are changemakers who think global, act local and have lifetimes of real world experience and demonstrated outcomes.

    Many of our lives & livelihoods are under direct or already being impacted by the US apartheid regime and it’s fascist tactics.

    But we don’t move from fear. We’re holding the line, building community & coalitions, and we keep pushing towards the future we all deserve.

    Faster alone, further together.

  • We are working hard behind the scenes to put together an amazing global line up of presenters.

    Full program and registration info will be available by May 23, 2025.

    Pre-register today to make sure you’re the first to know when registration opens.

  • Our session calendar is full and we are no longer accepting proposals!

    We hope you will consider applying next time!

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