Contact
Ashley Carter, Operatons ManagerWomen of Color Network, Inc.
acarter@wocninc.org
844-962-6462 ext. 708
When
Wednesday May 20, 2015 at 3:00 PM PST (registration opens at 12 PM)-to-
Friday May 22, 2015 at 3:00 PM PST
Where
Town & Country Resorts & Conference Ctr
500 Hotel Circle North San Diego, CA 92108 619-291-7131
Please reference "Women of Color Network, Inc." room block when making your reservation.
Base rate for hotel is $133 + taxes
Town & Country Resorts & Conference Ctr
Driving Directions
UPON REGISTRATION COMPLETION, A CONFIRMATION WILL APPEAR WITH A LINK TO MAKE YOUR OWN TRAVEL AND LODGING ARRANGMENTS. ALSO, IN THIS EMAIL THERE WILL BE LINKS TO PURCHASE ADS FOR THE CONFERENCE PROGRAM BOOK AND INFORMATION TO CONTACT WOCN FOR ASSISTANCE.
IMPORTANT
Please be aware that you are responsible for making all of your own travel arrangements, as well as lodging accomodations, and are responsible for covering all costs associated with this event. WOCN, Inc. can not assist with these details, but please do not hestitate to contact us with any questions as we want to ensure you have everything you need to attend the summit and conference!
SUMMIT AT A GLANCE:
Women of Color Summit: (This Summit is for those who identify as Black/African American, American Indian/Alaskan Native, Asian and Pacific Islander, Hispanic/Latina, Middle Eastern, Bi/Multi-racial on a daily basis.)
Proposed Women of Color Summit Focus Areas:
- Disabilities and Deaf/Hard of Hearing communities
- Trafficking
- Homicide
- Gender Identity
- Economic Justice
- Women of Color Sessions
Aspiring Allies Summit: (This Summit is for all Men and White women combined.)
Proposed Aspiring Allies Focus Areas:
- Exploring what it means for men and white women to work together as allies to support WOC leadership
- Discussing the politics of oppression and liberation
- Exploring what it means to focus on the most marginalized person
- Expanding our understanding of why WOC leadership is vital to the movement
- Understanding the role and responsibilities of Aspiring Allies
CONFERENCE AT A GLANCE:
Proposed Focus Areas:
- Culturally Specific Approaches
- Intersections of Oppressions
- LGBTQIAA
- Tribal Sovereignty
- Self-Care & Healing
- Community Organizing
- Economic Justice
- Immigration
- Trafficking
- Prevention
Additional Featured Topics Include:
What is #JaggedJustice In Communities of Color?
WOCN posits that women, men and queer people of color, gender non-conforming, gender fluid, cysgender, lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, heterosexual people of Asian, African, Latin, Native, and those of Middle-Eastern descent do not get access to pure justice.
Jagged justice is embedded in the limited choices or measures that we are forced to accept, which do not fully meet our needs, and leave ourselves, our families and our communities in pain and broken by the criminal, civil, and all other systems that claim to offer justice.
Our justice is jagged with centuries upon centuries of wounds passed on from generation to generation.
It is time that we collectively SPEAK OUT, TAKE ACTION, AND INSPIRE CHANGE!
EXHIBITOR/VENDOR REGISTRATION
2015 NATIONAL CALL TO ACTION SUMMIT AND CONFERENCE
Coming Full Circle:
Survivors and Communities
of Color
Leading the Way to Justice
and Healing
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CONFERENCE OVERVIEW:
The Women of Color Network, Inc. (WOCN) is hosting the 2015 National Call to Action Summit and Conference on May 20-22, 2015 at the Town and Country Resort and Conference Center in San Diego, CA.
This National Summit and Conference is the result of over 25 national Call to Action Calls that began in April 2007 with over 700 women of color, male and mainstream advocates across the country to raise awareness regarding the workplace challenges that women of color advocates and activists face in their violence against women programs and the lack of women of color leadership within the anti-violence against women movement as a whole.
SUMMIT AND CONFERENCE PURPOSE:
- Uniting women of color across ethnicity, race, age, citizenship, sexual orientation, disability, body type, faith, discipline, and locality for collective survival.
- Encouraging Aspiring Allies to support women of color leadership and aim for collective liberation in challenging racism, classism, sexism, homophobia, heterosexism, transphobia, ableism, xenophobia, agesim, and other forms of oppression and bias.
- To highlight the disproportionate violence that women of color victims suffer and the issues that overlap and further amplify violence.
- To enhance the leadership capacity of women of color advocates reaching and serving women of color victims.
- To build and enhance the capacity of aspiring male and white women aspiring allies to insist upon racial, gender and class equity within anti-violence programs in order to reach and serve communities of color and support the leadership of women of color advocates.
- To reinforce the importance of collective empowerment and the ties across communities that can lead to collective survival.
- To support, maintain and strengthen collaborations.
- To strengthen current and new action plans that emerge from the National Call to Action Institute and the National Call to Action Conference.
EXPECTED OUTCOMES:
- Participants of all backgrounds will have a greater knowledge of disparities in violence against women of color and their communities and how to bridge them.
- Women of color participants will increase their leadership capacity to serve and reach women of color victims.
- Men and white women will improve their understanding of what it means and how to serve as an aspiring ally to women of color.
- Participants will have a greater sense of unity and will have stronger incentive to work together for collective survival.
Participants will return to their local, state and national programs and initiatives with an individual and collective plan, resources and tools to make their daily service delivery and advocacy more responsive to women of color victims/survivors of violence.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
You are invited to attend, if you are a survivor, advocate, aspiring ally, activist, community organizer, student, community member, health care professionals, mental and behavioral health providers, law enforcement/criminal justice representative or educator, invested in securing justice and healing for survivors of sexual assault, domestic violence and/or human trafficking or want to support and increase the leadership of women of color. All community members are welcome.
Local domestic violence and sexual assault programs, and other allied organzations are recommended to sponsor at least two staff from their programs, if possible.
National groups are encouraged to sponsor at least one individual from their program, sponsor state, and local individuals who might not otherwise be able to attend.
Community-based organizations are encouraged to send at least one person from their programs.
REGISTRATION COST:
- Corporate Vendor/Information Table: $300.00 for 3-days
- National/State Non-Profit Vendor/Information Table: $200.00 for 3-days
- Small Businesses/Local Businesses/Individual Vendors: $100.00 for 3-days
In an effort to eliminate registration barriers, WOCN has chosen to maintain registration until the NCTA begins. The staff of WOCN suggests that you register by May 1, 2015.
*IMPORTANT: All check payments must be postmarked by May 1st. We can not accept checks after this date.