What is your vision for a truly inclusive & equitable city? Join Urban Consulate at People's Liberty for a day of dialogues between changemakers from Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Detroit, Minneapolis, Memphis, New Orleans, Mobile, Austin & Oakland who are challenging the status quo and imagining new possibilities for their cities. What barriers & breakthroughs are they seeing in their work? What are their daring ideas for the future?

Salon-style conversations throughout the day. Come for one, stay for all:

9:00 AM - Welcome & Introduction:

• Gee Horton, Urban Consulate
• Naimah Bilal, Urban Consulate
• Chase L. Cantrell, Urban Consulate

9:15 AM - Dialogue No. 1:

• Derrick Braziel, MORTAR
• Shari Davis, Participatory Budgeting Project (Oakland)

9:50 AM - Dialogue No. 2:

• William Daryl Williams, University of Cincinnati
• Bryan Lee, Jr., Colloqate (New Orleans)

10:25 AM - Dialogue No. 3:

• Markiea Carter, City of Cincinnati
• Shauen Pearce, City of Minneapolis

11:00 AM - Dialogue No. 4:

• Dora Anim, Greater Cincinnati Foundation
• Rachel Knox, Hyde Family Foundation (Memphis)

11:35 AM - Dialogue No. 5:

• Eileen Cooper Reed, Intersections Group
• Michael O'Bryan, Village of Arts & Humanities (Philadelphia)

12:10PM - Intermission

12:25 PM - Dialogue No. 6:

• Means Cameron, Black Owned & Black Coffee Lounge
• Jessica Norwood, The Runway Project

1:00 PM - Dialogue No. 7:

• Elese Daniel, poet
• mónica teresa ortiz, writer (Austin)

1:35 PM - Dialogue No. 8:

• Deana Taylor, J.D., 3CDC
• Chase L. Cantrell, Building Community Value (Detroit)

2:10 PM - Dialogue No. 9:

• Damian Hoskins, ArtsWave
• Tonya Dyson, Memphis Slim Collaboratory (Memphis)

2:45 PM - Dialogue No. 10:

• Kick Lee, Cincinnati Music Accelerator
• James Dukes (aka IMAKEMADBEATS), Unapologetic (Memphis)

3:20 PM - Dialogue No. 11:

• Kiana Trabue, Gen-H
• Devita Davison, FoodLab Detroit

3:55 PM - Closing Remarks:

• Gee Horton, Urban Consulate
• Naimah Bilal, Urban Consulate

.This event is part of People’s Liberty Civic Symposium. Presented by Urban Consulate at People's Liberty, with production support from Afrochine. Made possible thanks to generous support from the Carol Ann & Ralph V. Haile, Jr./U.S. Bank Foundation.