This fall, YMCA Madison is hosting a 3 day Racial Justice Summit. Race & Equity Director Gery Paredes Vasquez joins us briefly to talk about the upcoming summit and then we get into it with keynote speakers Autumn Brown and Susan Raffo. We discuss movement work, making space for rest, aging into the work, and so much more.

Autumn and Susan will be giving a collaborative keynote on the second day of YWCA Madison’s 2023 Racial Justice Summit. This year’s Summit will be offered Virtually on Oct. 3-4 and In Person on Oct. 5 at the Monona Terrace Convention Center in Madison, Wisconsin.

Tickets are available for all three days of the Summit, as well as just the virtual or in-person experiences. Ticket discounts are available for young adult and student groups. Learn More and Register at ywcamadison.org/racial-justice-summit

Autumn Brown is a mother, organizer, theologian, artist, and facilitator. She is currently on a year-long sabbatical.

Autumn is a facilitator with the Anti-Oppression Resource & Training Alliance (AORTA), a worker-owned cooperative devoted to strengthening movements for social justice and a solidarity economy through political education, training, and planning. Autumn co-hosts the podcast “How to Survive the End of the World” with her sister, adrienne maree brown.

Susan Raffo is a bodyworker, cultural worker and writer who focuses her work through the lens of healing justice. Her interest is in looking at all of the layers of resourcing needed to support community and movements. Alongside her own practice, Raffo has spent 12 years working with Cara Page on the Healing Histories Project, an abolitionist and anti-eugenics project working in solidarity with health and healing workers by disrupting abuses of the state. Susan is the author of a number of books including her latest title: Liberated to the Bone

Geraldine Paredes Vasquez is the Race & Gender Equity Director at YWCA in Madison.

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