
As feminist leaders, movement makers and worldbuilders how do we source and manifest the vision, relationships and transformative power needed to usher in a new era of peace, thriving and interdependence? At its best, feminist leadership is rooted in fierce love and purpose, radical connections, liberatory cultures and collective empowerment. It enables us to access spirit, transform our communities and evolve us all towards wholeness.
Join us on April 15, 2021 for conversation and embodied practice with feminist leaders from around the globe who are leading this (r)evolution of being. Come ready to participate, dream and connect!
9 am San Francisco /10 am Central America/ 12 pm New York / 5 pm London / 6 pm South Africa / 9:30 pm Delhi / 11 pm Indonesia and South East Asia / 3 am Sydney – Check your time zone here.
Brought to you by Root. Rise. Pollinate! and Healing Solidarity.
Please use the link below to register for this webinar:
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Speakers Participating in this event
Kathy Wan Povi Sanchez is a fourth-generation Tewa traditional potter from San Ildefonso Pueblo in northern New Mexico was well nurtured by matriarchal ancestors Maria and Julian Martinez. Not only was she nurtured in the art of the distinctive black ware pottery, but also in modeling the heart centeredness, the lived narrative of generational wisdom sharing, seeing the world from a holistic lens envisioning how a beloved community can be dreamt and become possible. Elder Kathy is currently the Sayain Circle of Grandmother’s Coordinator at Tewa Women United, a member of the National Council of Elders and among the Spirited Aligned Legacy Leaders.
Shereen Essof is a Zimbabwean feminist, activist, popular educator and is JASS’ Executive Director. Shereen’s work is grounded in her engagement with womxn in social movements and community-based organizations. She strives to understand the roots of oppressive systems, how they interesect in shaping our world and from that understanding to imagine and organize towards sustainable futures.
Jessica Horn is a feminist practitioner with an inclination towards digging deeper, inspiring activist alchemy and asking ‘where next’? Her work is situated politically in Pan-African feminism and practically in interventions to affirm women’s right to live pleasurable embodied lives-free from violence, to resource activism, and build the scaffolding for feminist futures.
Alli Finn is a queer feminist advocate, organizer, facilitator, and writer from NYC, working at the intersections of labor rights and immigration justice. From 2016-2020, she advocated for migrant domestic worker rights with the Anti-Racism Movement, a grassroots feminist organization in Beirut. Her organizing and writing is deeply informed by transnational feminist movement spaces, and her experiences of queerness, migration, and dis/ability.
Root. Rise. Pollinate! are Rufaro Gwarada, Shawna Wakefield & Kristen Zimmerman
Rufaro Gwarada
Rufaro is committed to a world animated by unhu (ubuntu) – the understanding that collective and individual well-being are one and the same. She is a writer, facilitator, and organizer, with 10+ years working for gender justice, migrant rights, African-led solutions for Africans, and utilizing art and cultural expression as conduits for healing, liberation, and joy. She co-founded ThriveAfrica.us, Wakanda Dream Lab, and reset, and worked at organizations including CAMFED, Global Fund for Women, Africa Speaks 4 Africa, and Power California. Rufaro is home in Zimbabwe, Oakland and Sacramento, California, with Sangha, on the dance floor, and among creatives and those who strive for liberation of all peoples.
Shawna Wakefield
Shawna is committed to cultivating joyful, trusting relationships that create true collaboration. She is a facilitator, strategist, and leader who has worked on gender, racial and economic justice for 25 years, increasing feminist leadership, transformative programming, and cultures of care and equity. Shawna has been a Gender at Work Associate, Oxfam International’s Senior Gender Justice Lead, Oxfam Gender Advisor for Southeast Asia, Researcher with Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU) in Afghanistan, Program Specialist with UNIFEM, and a yoga instructor in Brooklyn, NY. She weaves her dedicated practices of Buddhism, yoga and somatics, and love of nature into her support of activists’ and survivors’ wellbeing.
Kristen Zimmerman
Kristen is committed to bringing about a world rooted in our fundamental interdependence. As an artist-storyteller, strategist, coach, and facilitator she has three decades’ experience integrating creative and mind-body-spirit practice into movement building, community, and social transformation efforts. Kristen co-founded groundbreaking projects including Movement Strategy Center, Community LORE, Youth In Focus, and Decolonize Race. She trains in Zen Buddhism, storytelling and nature-based practices, and her son Jonah helps her keep it real. Home are the places she’s experienced beloved community, including the redwoods near San Francisco Bay, the shores of Lake Michigan, and the foothills of the Himalayas.