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Brandy Brooks

Dreaming Out Loud, Inc.
Director of Programs
Washington D.C. Metro Area

dreamingoutloud.org/

Brandy H. M. Brooks is an activist, educator, facilitator and designer who has spent more than 10 years working on social and environmental justice. Her particular areas of focus include community engagement and empowerment; community-based design and land use planning; and food justice and food sovereignty. She's excited about creating intentional communities led by people of color that model sustainable self-production, radical economics and radical democracy.

9:30am EDT

How Racism is a Roadblock to the Next Economy -- And What We Can Do About That: Movement Strategy Center's Transitions Lab Rockwell Hall 204

12:30pm EDT

Lunch Social Hall

5:30pm EDT

Light Dinner Rockwell Hall Patio

7:00pm EDT

Opening Plenary: Achieving Self-Determination And Sovereignty For Our Communities Rockwell Theater

9:30pm EDT

Opening Social Campbell Plaza, Tent

8:30am EDT

Breakfast Campbell Student Union Lobby

9:30am EDT

Combatting Economic Violence in Baltimore and DC: Black Workers Centers and Cooperatives as Tools for Liberation in the New Economy Rockwell Hall 304 Exploring Post-Capitalist Alternatives Bulger Communication Center East

11:15am EDT

Challenging Entrenched Power Through New Economy Work in Red and Rural Communities Rockwell Hall 201 Updating Cuba's Economic Model: The Role for Social and Solidarity Economy Practices Rockwell Hall 204

12:30pm EDT

Lunch Social Hall

2:00pm EDT

Decolonizing Our Solidarity Economies: A Conversation for People of Color Rockwell Hall 304

4:00pm EDT

Growing Food and Power: Food Sovereignty in the United States Rockwell Hall 204

5:30pm EDT

Evening Plenary Rockwell Theater

7:30pm EDT

Dinner & Party Quad outside Campbell Student Union

9:00am EDT

Breakfast Social Hall

9:30am EDT

Decolonizing the Economy from the Ground Up: Case Study Boston Ujima Project Rockwell Theater Housing Is A Human Right: Organizing For Community Land Trusts Ketchum Hall 118 The History and Future of the Community Development Finance Movement Rockwell Hall 204

11:15am EDT

Reparations: How Are We Doing It? Bulger Communication Center East

12:30pm EDT

Lunch Social Hall

1:45pm EDT

Planning for Liberation: Strategy Tools from the Popular Education Spiral to the Power Analysis and Beyond Rockwell Hall 306 Power Mapping for the New Economy Bulger Communication Center West 2

3:05pm EDT

Closing Plenary Rockwell Theater

4:20pm EDT

Closing Rockwell Theater