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Antioch College’s Coretta Scott King Center for Cultural and Intellectual Freedom invites you to participate in the upcoming Global Racial and Social Justice Summit, held in-person from February 13–16, 2025, in the historic town of Yellow Springs, Ohio. 

This year’s summit theme, “Another World is Possible,” will create a vital space for academics, artists, activists, community organizers, and students to convene, discuss, and strategize around pressing racial and social justice issues. The summit will center on collective resistance and envisioning a more equitable and inclusive future amidst rising global challenges. 

Over 35 individuals and groups from across the country submitted proposals to offer workshops, art exhibitions, performances, research paper presentations, and panel discussions that will be featured throughout the gathering. 

The summit will begin Thursday, Feb. 13 at 5:30 p.m. with an dynamic opening session featuring Shelby Chestnut and the Un/commoning Pedagogies Collective as well as a dialogue about hip-hop, education, and racial and social justice between Miles Iton, founder of Lo-Fi Language Learning, and Truth Garrett, a local educator, artist, and community organizer. 

In addition to the panel discussions, workshops, films, research presentations, and exhibitions, individuals will be able to attend a powerful dance performance on Friday, Feb. 14 at 7 p.m., titled “Mareas/Tides,” choreographed by Dr. Marion Ramirez and Dr. Ojeya Cruz Banks, both professors in the dance department at Denison University. The performance will feature live music by musicians Pete Mills, Timothy Carpenter, Matthew Dixon, and Dean Hullet. 

On Saturday, Feb. 15, which is Coretta Scott King Remembrance Day in Yellow Springs, Ohio, participants will be invited to a Fireside Chat. The chat will consist of a panel featuring the President of Antioch College, Dr. Jane Fernandes, in conversation with Shelby Chestnut, Antioch College Board of Trustees Chairperson and Executive Director of the Transgender Law Center; Dr. Kimberley Richards Executive Director of the People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond; and Elba “Alicia” Pagan, Ohio State Director of the League of United Latin American Citizen about challenges in the contemporary moment and ways to move into a more just and inclusive present and future. 

Support for this summit was provided by the Great Lakes Colleges Association through its Global Crossroads Initiative, made possible by a grant from the Mellon Foundation.

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