Friday, March 20, 2020

7:30 – 8:30 AM REGISTRATION

8:30 – 9:30 AM KEYNOTE

On the Road to Social Transformation
Rosie Hidalgo, JD, Senior Director of Public Policy, Casa de Esperanza, Washington DC 

Recognizing the 25^th anniversary of the passage of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) and of the Advocacy in Action Conference, the speaker will highlight the progress that has been made in addressing domestic violence and sexual assault, while focusing on the need to continue enhancing different pathways to safety and well-being, improving prevention and community engagement efforts, and supporting transformative advocacy at the individual and systems level. Key learning objectives for this session are to:

• Assess the progress that has been made in passing legislation and creating services to address and reduce domestic violence and sexual assault.
• Identify ongoing gaps in access to safety and well-being.
• Explore opportunities for creating an expanded coordinated community response, beyond a coordinated systems response, to increase pathways to safety and well-being and engage in transformative advocacy and social norms change.

 9:30 – 10:30 AM KEYNOTE

Special Presentation by Jackson Katz

10:30 – 10:45 AM BREAK

10:45 – 11:45 AM KEYNOTE

Surviving R. Kelly: What Justice Looks Like to the Survivors and to Many in the Black Community
dream hampton, filmmaker, writer and one of TIME Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World (2019), Detroit, MI

This plenary features ‘Surviving R Kelly’ producer Dream Hampton to discuss storytelling, (re)framing narrative, and giving voice to the feelings and experiences of black women and girls and what is needed next to end sexual assault and violence. Key learning objectives for this session are to:

• Distinguish the complexities for black survivors to be able to report sexual violence by black perpetrators.
• Discuss how black survivors of sexual violence by a black perpetrator view justice differently: our criminal-justice system is a broken one that denies black people justice.
• Evaluate how a restorative justice process is an answer to the prison industrial complex that hurts the black community.