We invite you to join us next week for the 9th annual virtual National Community Leadership Summit, themed Crafting Our Legacy: Collaborative Action for Love, Liberation, and Joy, hosted by Boston Medical Center’s Vital Village Networks on October 18-19 from 12pm-5:30pm Eastern (4pm-10pm Greenwich Mean Time).
The Summit will include two general conference days, a pre-conference focused on equity in data, as well as an opportunity to embark on a six-month learning journey focused on beloved community in action. We hope to bring together trailblazers and changemakers from around the globe who are dedicated to helping children and families get equitable access to the resources they need to thrive.
Our theme this year - Crafting Our Legacy: Collaborative Action for Love, Liberation, and Joy - incorporates community-driven solutions to collectively address childhood trauma and achieve racial equity. The Summit is designed to lift up local wisdom and practical lessons from pioneering community capacity building efforts to promote the dignity of every child and optimize wellbeing from initiatives across the country. At the core, however, is the appreciation of each servant leader; therefore, the summit is designed to ensure participants are rejuvenated, broaden their social networks, and take away concrete skills and action steps to improve their local collective efforts and advocacy for children and families.
Summit participants will connect with community experts in health, early childhood education, child welfare, justice, education, policy, research and philanthropy, and hear from inspirational advocates like Vital Village Networks Founding Director Dr. Renee Boynton Jarrett, as well as many other leaders from the Boston area and beyond.
Keynote Speakers Include:
- Social Justice Leader and Movement Strategist Tamika D. Mallory will join us to talk about what it looks like to build just movements together.
- Author Tracey M. Lewis-Giggets will bring us back to joy, by helping us to stand in our resistance and resilience with the freedom to celebrate.
- Activists and birth equity leaders Omari Maynard and Bruce McIntyre III featured in the Hulu documentary “Aftershock” will share how they are reshaping the narrative of Black fatherhood.
Two days of sessions will feature leaders across the country who are reimagining food systems, justice, education and health designed for us to thrive together, including topics such as:
- Children Need Roots and Wings: Transformative Education for Liberation
- Creating a Thriving Early Care & Education Workforce
- The Price of the Ticket: Authoring a New Birth Equity Alternative: Community Leadership for Birth Equity
- Speaking Truth to Power: Rewriting Our Stories through Equitable and Participatory Data
- Restoring Our Communities and Relationships with Dignity
- Grounding the Legacy in Cross-Generational Leadership
- Food and Culture
- Community Engagement in Food Systems Work
- Enacting Equity in Community Food Systems
- Food Sovereignty Through Legislative Engagement
We hope you’ll join us as we honor, remember, and restore the power of our collective action. Visit our website to register here and please share with your networks!
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