Aisha Shillingford Artistic Director Aisha is a multi-disciplinary artist, world builder, designer and cultural strategist originally from Trinidad & Tobago. She is an alumna of Laundromat Project’s Creative Change Fellowship, a member of the New Museum Incubator, and an inaugural Fellow at the Race Forward Butterfly Lab for Immigrant Narrative …
United Capoeira Association of Hayward Capoeira is a dynamic expression of Afro-Brazilian culture. The game of capoeira derived from a variety of ceremonial dances and ritualized forms of combat, that most likely came from the western nations of Africa. Capoeira became an activity that drew together people of African descent, …
The Juvenile Justice/Delinquency Prevention Commission of Alameda County is a state-mandated, court-appointed authority. The general purpose of the Commission is to inquire into the administration of the juvenile court law in this county in order to ensure that the rights or physical, mental or moral welfare of children are not …
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Forced Trajectory Project Forced Trajectory Project (FTP) is a media, public relations and advocacy organization that began in 2009, documenting the rippling effects police violence has on communities beginning with the families who have lost their loved ones to police murder. Utilizing moving pictures, stills, and sound, the project’s goal …
JoyLabs Through weekly sessions JoyLabs builds a community of practice that strengthens individual resilience and effective leadership, with the goal of collective resistance and strong movements.We are a community of queer, non-binary folks, women and people of color who are also athletes, organizers and change makers. Our core is based in Oakland California …
Intelligent Mischief Intelligent Mischief is a creative studio and futures design lab whose mission is to boost invention & imagination, realign action logic and experiment with new forms of culture and civil society to create atmospheres of change. We use art, entertainment, and experiences to develop transformative cultural strategies that unleash …
Leila McCabe Williams Executive Director, Beloved Communities Network Founder, JoyLabs Leila (she/her), executive director of the Beloved Communities Network and founder of JoyLabs, is a Mama, artist, strategist, movement maker and builder. She brings over 15 years of experience in community and campus organizing, electoral organizing, movement building and facilitation. …
reSet Project The reSet Project cultivates imagination and builds power toward inclusive and participatory governance that centers people and the natural world. Working with tribal, community and state leaders, artists, cultural workers, organizers, communicators, academics, and advocates, they seed cultural shifts and intentionally integrate arts and cultural organizing to ensure …
Kristen Lynn Zimmerman Kristen is a storyteller, world-builder and way-finder based in Oakland, CA. Her comics and stories weave magic, memory & nonfiction to repair intergenerational ruptures, reconnect us to ancestral wisdom, and open new possibilities for the future. Her people are the ones who live in the in-between spaces …
Wakanda Dream Lab Wakanda Dream Lab is a collective fan driven project that bridges the worlds of Black fandom and #Blacktivism for Black Liberation. We function according to a value emergence and celebrate the organic self-organizing nature of fandom. We intend to build on the aesthetics and pop-culture appeal of …
