Past Years

Plenaries

How Much Discomfort is the Whole World Worth?
Kelly Hayes

The Importance of Racial Justice and Liberatory Practice: What We Do and Why We Do It
Shimon Cohen, Charla Cannon Yearwood

Breakout Sessions

Building an Abolitionist Presence as Social Workers
Kristen Brock-Petroshius, Kirk “Jae” James, Sophia Sarantakos

“F-ck it. We’ll do it.” – Black Women
Jeremy “JP” Vincent, Sakara Wages

Social Work Without Mandated Reporting
Tamia Govan, Jasmine Wali, Eleni Zimiles

Understanding Disability Through the Family Lens
 Dr. Cheryl Funmaker, Felica Turner-Walton, Ida Winters

Shifting the Mindset on Mandated Reporting
Tess DuChateau, Lisa Martin

Healing and Justice Center: A Community Based Approach to Public Safety
Shimon Cohen, Rachel Gilmer, Tarrah Hield-Swann, Chettarra Thompson

Imagining Border, Prison, and Police Abolition for Health Justice
Ronica Mukerjee

Immigrant Dairy Workers in Wisconsin: Moving From Awareness to Action
Ruth Conniff, Brenda Gonzalez, Fabiola Hamdan, Melissa Sanchez, Heidi Wegleitner

Practicing Connected in Community
Charla Yearwood, Myranda Warden

RCC GameChanger – Youth Perspectives on Sexual Violence, Intersectionality, and Activisn
Moderator: Courtney Schwalbach  &  Young Activists: Taylor DuVarney, Jennie Lee, Cameron Young, Akanksha Denduluri

Plenaries

A discussion between Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, author of “The Future is Disabled,” and Dr. Sami Schalk, author of “Black Disability Politics.”
Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Dr. Sami Schalk

Reflecting on Racial and Disability Justice
Imani Barbarin

Breakout Sessions

Loud ‘N Unchained Mad c Krip Poetry and Care
T.S. Banks

Supporting Children of Color with Disabilities with Culturally Responsive Practices
LaShorage Shaffer

Engaging the Latino Community
Hector Portillo

Understanding Disability Through the Family Lens
Dr. Cheryl Funmaker, Felica Turner-Walton, Ida Winters

Shifting the Mindset on Mandated Reportin
Tess DuChateau, Lisa Martin

Introduction to Disability Justice
 Patty Cisneros Prevo, Mari Magler

Madison CARES Crisis Response Team
Steven Button, Sarah Henrickson, Olivia Kostreva, Ché Stedman, Carla Williams

Disability Justice in Voting Rights
Barbara Beckert, Cindy Bentley, David Carlson, Anita Johnson

Evolving within Systems of Oppressions
Megan Malone, Dani Rischall

#StopASWB Panel
Shimon Cohen, Jen Hirsch, LMSW, Cassandra Walker, Kim Young, MSW, LCSW

Advocacy During the Wisconsin State Budget Process
Senator LaTonya Johnson

Plenaries

Healing and Hope in a Racialized Society
Rwenshaun Miller

Keeping Radical Hope Alive
Ali Muldrow and Oceana Sawyer

Breakout Sessions

Historical Trauma: Understanding it’s Impacts, How to Heal and How to Move Forward
Niquanna Barnett

Advocacy for Undocumented Immigrants: What Works, and what needs more work by more people
Fabiola Hamdan, Teresa Tellez-Giron, moderator Cristhabel Martinez

Reclaiming Indigenous Kinship and Resisting Ongoing Colonialism in the Child Welfare System
Cary Waubanascum, Selena Garza  

Messaging for Change the Power of Political Social Work
Dr. Charles E. Lewis, Jr., Dr. Darcey Merritt; Justin Hodge

Generative Ideation with 3 Dope Black Women
Dr. Damita Brown, Sakara Wages, and Dominique Christian 

Unmasking the Hidden Crises of Missing, Murdered, & Indigenous Women and Girls
Lynette Grey Bull

Black Leaders Organizing for Change
Angela Lange

We Save Us: Improving Health Outcomes Through Community Based Care
Adrian Jones, Jessi Kendall, Tia Murray

“What we Cannot Imagine Cannot Come Into Being” Reflecting on a Continuing Process of Anti Racist Organization
Michele Mackey; Stephanie Munoz; Adam L. Jackson; Amanda Martinez

How to Maintain Hope in a Racialized Society as a School Social Worker.
Damaris Drohin de Arrieta, Jerome Flowers, Jackie Thao, Ronnie Riveria, 

Transformative Justice in Stressed Schools
Savion Castro, Lorrie Hurckes- Dwyer, Dr. Damita Brown, and Alexis Gardner

Tribal Child Welfare Practices
Nick Van Zile; Esie Leoso-Corbine, Tibissum Rice, Rebecca Benton; Abby Dall

Tired of Dancing to Their Song: An Assessment of the Indigenous Women’s Reproductive Justice Funding Landscape
 Zachary Packineau; Coya White Hat-Artichoker

Plenaries

Exclusion By Design: The History of Anti-Black Racism in the Child Welfare System
Dr. Sherri Simmons-Horton

Reimagine A Black Feminist Social Work
Sakara Wages, Jacquelyn Boggess, Dr. Damita Brown.

Breakout Sessions

Centering Justice and Lived Experience as an Anti-Rasist Framework: The Role of Certified Peer Specialists in Behavioral Health Reform
Dani Rischall; Carmella Glenn; Tim Saubers; Tara Wilhelmi; Alysha Clark

Preventing Further Harm: Addressing Violence Without Police
Monique Minkens; Kathy Flores

Healing From Within: Providing Survivor Led Advocacy Driven and Culturally Specific Care to American Indian Women Survivors of Violence
Dr. Jeneile Luebke

Abolitionist Restorative Justice: Identity Power and Social Transformation
Dr. Damita Brown

Anti-Racist Organizational Change: Embracing the Promise and Peril
Jacquie Boggess, Michele Mackey, Stephanie Muñoz (moderator)

Supporting Healthy Families: Black Communication
Jalateefa Joe-Meyers, Wanda Smith

Understanding the Impact of Racism and White Supremacy on the US Immigration System in Order to Better Serve People that are Undocumented and Dacamented
Erin M. Barbato; Erika Rosales

Are African American Men Deserving of the American Dream?
Dr. David J. Pate, Jr.

The Role of Social Workers in Immigration Legal Services Organizations: Advocating with and for Immigrant Survivors of Gender-Based Violence Through an Interdisciplinary Perspective
Rená E. Cutlip-Mason; Adriana López; Kursten Phelps

Plenaries

Opening Speaker
M. Adams, Community Organizer and Co-Executive Director of Freedom, Inc.

A Conversation with Michelle Alexander
Michelle Alexander; moderated by Jacquelyn Bogess, JD, Lecturer and Dr. Pajarita Charles, Assistant Professor

Plenary

Demanding Social Transformation, Justice, and Equality for All
Janaya Kahn

Plenary

Black History, American History
Symone Sanders

Plenaries

Armando Hernandez-Morales, Assistant Director of Integrated Health, Madison Metropolitan School District

Percy Brown, Jr. Director of Equity and Student Achievement, Middleton Cross Plains Area School District

Plenaries

Erica Nelson, Project Director for the Wisconsin Council on Children and Families Race to Equity Project”;  Matthew Braunginn, Young, Gifted and Black; Everett Mitchell, JD, M.Div, M.th

Plenary

Tamara Grigsby