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Friday May 31, 2024 1:30pm - 3:00pm EDT
Join the Florida-born Dream Defenders (DD, est 2012) — a national, Black-led freedom organization fighting for safety and good life for all — to hear songs, strategies, and stories from Florida’s front lines in the fight against gun violence, white supremacy, and mass incarceration. Meet members from the Bay Area SquaDD organizing here in St. Pete and Tampa Bay, and from the Miami SquaDD, including folks from the Healing and Justice Center, DD’s community-based public safety program.

Simultaneous interpretation into Spanish will be provided via headsets during the all-conference sessions (plenary sessions). If you would like to access the translation into Spanish, please come to the registration table and ask for a headset 5-10 minutes before the all conference session that you are attending.

Únase a Dream Defenders (DD, est 2012)--nacida en Florida, una organización nacional de libertad liderada por negrxs que lucha por la seguridad y la buena vida para todxs–para escuchar canciones, estrategias e historias de las primeras líneas de Florida en la lucha contra la violencia armada, supremacía blanca y encarcelamiento masivo. Conozca a lxs miembros del SquaDD del área de la bahía que se organizan aquí en St. Pete y Tampa Bay, y del SquaDD de Miami, incluso miembros del Healing and Justice Center / Centro para la sanación y la justicia, el programa de seguridad pública comunitario de DD.

Simultaneous interpretation into Spanish will be provided via headsets during the all-conference sessions (plenary sessions). If you would like to access the translation into Spanish, please come to the registration table and ask for a headset 5-10 minutes before the all conference session that you are attending.

Presenters
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Brittany “bk” King

Dream Defenders
Brittany “bk” King (she/her/king) is a poet, playwright, actor, and cultural organizer from South Florida. Bk utilizes film/digital video, music/sound, photography, and theatre to ignite our radical imaginations and create new narratives that she hopes will challenge the status... Read More →
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Yordanos Molla

Dream Defenders
Yordanos Molla (she/her) is a member of Dream Defenders, a Black-led social justice organization working towards building safety for all. Throughout her organizing experience, she has planned events and direct actions, led political education, and built relationships with coalition... Read More →
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Amal Rogers

Healing Educator, Dream Defenders
Amal Rogers (she/her) makes performance, teaches movement, and facilitates healing to encourage people toward greater connection with self and other. She works as a Healing Educator with the Dream Defenders and the Healing and Justice Center. She also works as a Somatic Coach with... Read More →
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Sierra M. Clark

Dream Defenders
Sierra M. Clark (she/her) is an inner well being liaison, spontaneous and trusting community building. She enhances.. she adds value.. she exhorts.. and cares.. that we turn personal and systematic struggles into opportunities for self and community organizing towards inclusivity... Read More →
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Jay James

Dream Defenders
Jay James (they, them, theirs) is a Black, TransNon-binary, Genderqueer, Intersex person whose mission is to organize towards Black, Brown, Indigenous, Queer, and Trans liberation. Jay is a 3rd generation native of St. Petersburg, 7th generation native of Florida, and is a proud Southerner... Read More →
Friday May 31, 2024 1:30pm - 3:00pm EDT
Miller Auditorium
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