Even if you’re unable to make it to Chicago for Equity Summit 2018 (April 11-13), we’ll be live broadcasting select programming throughout the week from #EquitySummit2018, via our website and Facebook pages. Be sure to share the livestream and check out our social media toolkit for sample tweets, posts, and images.

PLENARY LIVESTREAM: Thursday, April 12, 8:00 a.m. CT to 10:00 a.m. CT Our Power: Radical Imagination Fueling Change (Opening Plenary) Moderator: Angela Glover Blackwell, CEO, PolicyLink Speakers:  Gerry Hudson, Secretary-Treasurer, SEIU María Teresa Kumar, Executive Director, Voto Latino Rashad Robinson, Executive Director, Color of Change Linda Sarsour, Executive Director, MPower Change Jose Antonio Vargas, Founder & CEO, Define American Edna Chavez, Community Coalition Marian Wright Edelman, Children’s Defense Fund Friday, April 13, 8:00 a.m. CT to 9:45 a.m. CT Our Future: The Leading Edge of the Equity Movement Moderator: Michael McAfee, President, PolicyLink Speakers: Charlene Carruthers, Founding National Director, BYP100 (Black Youth Project 100) Tara Houska, National Campaigns Director, Honor the Earth Derrick Johnson, President and CEO, NAACP Ai-jen Poo, Executive Director, National Domestic Workers Alliance Rip Rapson, President and CEO, The Kresge Foundation Lata Reddy, Senior Vice President, Diversity, Inclusion & Impact, Prudential Financial, Inc.; Chair and President, The Prudential Foundation Carmen Rojas, CEO, The Workers Lab Friday, April 13, 1:30 p.m. CT to 3:00 p.m. CT  Our Nation: Transformative Solidarity in a Divided Nation (Closing Plenary) Moderator: Manuel Pastor, Director, USC Program for Environmental and Regional Equity, USC Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration Speakers: Deepa Iyer, Senior Fellow, Center for Social Inclusion Tiq Milan, Author, Advocate, and Co-Founder, Milan Media Arts Productions Vanessa Moses, Executive Director, Causa Justa: Just Cause Carmen Perez, Executive Director, The Gathering for Justice/National Co-Chair, Women’s March Lori Pourier, President, First Peoples Fund Michael Tubbs, Mayor, City of Stockton, California Manuel Pastor, USC Program for Environmental and Regional Equity, USC Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration Mitch Landrieu, Mayor, City of New Orleans, Louisiana john a. powell, Director, Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society, University of California, Berkeley FACEBOOK LIVESTREAMS: Thursday, April 12, 11:00 a.m. CT to 12:15 p.m. CT   Inclusive Gender Justice and the Movement for Racial Equity Moderator: Darnell Moore, Editor-at-Large, CASSIUS (an iOne digital platform) Speakers: Alicia Garza, Principal, Black Futures Lab Edmund T. Gordon, Chair and Associate Professor, Department of African and African Diaspora Studies, UT Austin Coya White Hat-Artichoker, Community Health & Health Equity Program Manager, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota Krystal Torres-Covarrubias, Out for Safe Schools Coordinator, Los Angeles LGBT Center Thursday, April 12, 3:00 p.m. CT to 4:15 p.m. CT Messaging the Movement: Narratives for Racial and Economic Justice  Moderator: Maya Harris, Advocate, MSNBC Political & Legal Analyst Speakers: Angela Glover Blackwell, CEO, PolicyLink Jeff Chang, Executive Director, Institute for Diversity in the Arts, Stanford University john a. powell, Director, Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society, University of California, Berkeley Connie M. Razza, Director of Policy and Research, Demos Marc Solomon, Principal and National Director, Civitas Public Affairs Group Friday, April 13, 10:30 a.m. CT to 11:45 a.m. CT Reimagining Cities: Local Vanguards for National Change  Moderator: Tracey Ross, Associate Director, PolicyLink Speakers:  Julián Castro, Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Mekaelia Davis, Program Officer of Corporate Responsibility, Prudential Foundation Helen Gym, City Councilmember At-Large, City of Philadelphia Shané Harris, Vice-President of Corporate Giving, Prudential Financial Andrea Jenkins, Councilmember, Ward 8, Minneapolis City Council Mitch Landrieu, Mayor, City of New Orleans, Louisiana Tanya Wallace-Gobern, Executive Director, National Black Worker Center Project We hope you’ll tune in and encourage you to join in the conversation online using the hashtag #EquitySummit2018!