SIGNATURE TALK OR WORKSHOP

Participants build a shared poem using prompts that center the event theme (e.g. liberation, belonging, joy, desire, memory, mental health, healing, etc.) and the freedom dreams + futures your community is trying to reach. Attendees’ reflections are woven into an improvised spoken-word community poem performed live.

SIGNATURE WORKSHOP OR SERVICE

A hands-on making session, booth, or pop-up where people create linocut prints from a hand carved stamp I make (e.g. company logo, event brand/theme/quote, custom design). It’s a tactile, grounding, and creative play/arts-based activity built for embodied learning, community building, and memorable keepsakes (e.g. shirts, totes, banners, paper, etc.).

SIGNATURE TALK OR WORKSHOP

A deep, grounded analysis of how schools often operate as sites of social death: surveillance, control, punishment, and institutional betrayal; especially for Black youth and other targeted communities. This talk helps audiences identify the everyday “death-dealing” practices that normalize harm.

SIGNATURE TALK + WORKSHOP

This talk explores the intimate entanglement of Blackness, gender, surveillance, desire, and futurity. Afrotransfuturism offers survival technology: a way of imagining selfhood and community beyond the violence of categories.

SIGNATURE TALK OR WORKSHOP

This is an invitation to think about death beyond the physical. We explore how institutions produce spiritual death, social death, cultural death, spirit death, etc. then normalize it as “the way things are.” This talk bridges critical race theory, grief studies, and abolitionist frameworks.

SIGNATURE TALK

This talk is about what becomes possible when we stop asking young people to survive school and start designing learning environments that restore connection, dignity, and selfhood. “Life-giving schooling” is disciplined, intentional, and built to interrupt harm while expanding what students can feel, imagine, and become.

SIGNATURE TALK OR WORKSHOP

A strategy-forward session on partnering with youth activists ethically (navigating institutional pushback, risk, and power while building conditions for youth leadership that’s protected, resourced, and taken seriously). This is for adults who genuinely want to show up without becoming managers of youth resistance—or using youth activism as organizational branding.

SIGNATURE TALK OR WORKSHOP

A grounded session that moves past surface-level “micro” framing to examine patterns of harm, impact, and accountability; equipping participants with language and actions to interrupt bias in real time without defensiveness or performance. This offering focuses on what people actually need: how to respond when harm happens, how to stop protecting comfort over safety, and how to build repair that doesn’t become punishment or spectacle.

SIGNATURE TALK OR WORKSHOP

An interactive training on adultism and saviorism in youth-serving spaces, with concrete shifts that strengthen youth agency, consent, and co-leadership. Participants examine how adultism hides inside “best practices,” how saviorism becomes a professional identity, and how youth are often forced to earn dignity through compliance.

SIGNATURE TALK OR WORKSHOP

A foundational (but not watered down) session on how power works—helping participants name oppression structurally, recognize how it shows up in everyday practice, and build shared language for liberation-aligned action. This is not a “DEI 101” that stops at awareness; it’s a practical orientation toward how institutions reproduce harm through normal routines and how people can interrupt that without collapsing into guilt, defensiveness, or performative agreement.

SIGNATURE TALK OR WORKSHOP

A practical session for unlearning white-dominant norms and rebuilding workplace/classroom culture around trust, belonging, and shared responsibility, so “care” becomes a collective practice, not an individual burden. This workshop names the hidden rules that govern meetings, classrooms, and teams (urgency, perfectionism, punishment logic, fear of conflict, “professionalism” as control), and replaces them with repeatable, concrete culture practices.