2021 Intersect Conference COMING SOON!

 

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Conference Schedule

Friday, October 1st, 2021

3:00 – 4:30 PM: Registration

4:00 – 4:20 PM: Conference Opening

4:30 – 5:30 PM: Educational Session #1

5:30 – 5:40 PM: Shabbat Candle Lighting

5:45 – 6:45 PM: Educational Session #2

6:55 – 7:55 PM: Dinner & Keynote Speaker: Gabrielle E. W. Carter

Gabrielle E. W. Carter is an Artist and Cultural preservationist who uses Diasporic and local foodways as a vehicle to reimagine wealth, marginalized food systems, and inheritance. Her work uses oral history, film, cooking, and textile to examine and explore the Black experience in relation to land cultivation, sedentary practice, and agronomy. Creating contemporary source materials for historic works and knowledge.

8:00 – 9:00 PM: Dessert Social and Networking

Saturday, October 2nd, 2021

8:00 – 9:20 AM: Conference Check-In and Guided Meditation

8:30 – 9:20 AM: Breakfast

9:30 – 10:30 AM: Educational Session #3

10:40 – 11:40 AM: Educational Session #4

11:50 AM – 12:50 PM: Lunch 

1:00 – 2:00 PM: Educational Session #5

2:10 – 3:10 PM: Educational Session #6

3:20 – 3:45 PM: Coffee/Snack Break

3:50 – 4:20 PM: Roundtable Discussion

4:30 – 5:30 PM: Keynote Speaker: Tokata Iron Eyes

Tokata Iron Eyes, activist and member of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe. She was a youth leader of the campaign “Rezpect Our Water” against the proposed route of the Dakota Access Pipeline.