From Radical Hospitality to Radical Accountability
This community lunch helped participants design actionable opportunities for moving towards radical hospitality and accountability across their communities. Participants engaged in intergenerational and cross-cultural conversations among students, youth, organizers and elders.
Diya Abdo facilitated conversation on fostering change through intergenerational and intercultural collaboration. Abdo is a Lincoln Financial professor of English at Guilford College, founder of Every Campus a Refuge, a program for resettling and housing refugees on college and university campuses, and author of American Refuge: True Stories of the Refugee Experience.
This event brought the Power + Place Collaborative into the 2025 Design Forge to support the conference theme, relational design. Local design thinkers from Alamance County worked with Design Forge attendees from around the U.S. to explore rootedness and how to make community members feel welcomed.
Story Sharing Prompts
Radical Hospitality
- Share where you feel rooted (e.g. a place, your family).
- Why do you feel rooted there?
- Share a story of a place and time where you felt welcomed. What happened to make you feel welcomed and rooted?
Radical Accountability
- What are some ways in which you might think about your responsibility towards members of your community?
- Who are those community members?
- What might be some responsibilities you and the community as a whole have towards them?
- Think of the spaces you and your community often create. Write down or sketch a few examples of what you think accountability could look like in those spaces.