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PAST CONFERENCES

1985: Empowering Women of Color Conference

1986: Organizing for the Here, the Now, the Future, featuring Michelle Wallace

1987: Standing At The Crossroads: This Bridge Called My Back, featuring Gloria Anzaldua and Cherrie Moraga

1988: Wake Up! Women of Color Taking the Lead, featuring Theresa Cordova, Chockie Cottier, Raquel Sancho, Deanna Jang, & Pat Norman

1989: Sister/Outsiders: A Movement of Our Own – From the Sixties to the Eighties, featuring Aneb Kgositsile

1990: Taking Back: Taking Back/ Private Truths/Public Lies A One-Day Conference Dedicated to the Work of Dolores Huerta, featuring bell hooks)

1991: Legacy of Resistance, featuring Betty Cooper, Maria Cora, Sheba Haven, Helen Zia)

1992: Rising Up Live! Featuring June Jordan, Alice Walker, Angela Y. Davis, Diane Reeves, Terri Lyne Carrington, Gina Pacaldo, Lulintang Arts

1993: A Litany For Survival… In memory of Audre Lorde and All Our Foremothers, featuring Cherrie Moraga and Barbara Christian

1994: Rights of Passage: Exposing the Margins, featuring Paula Gunn Allen & Booma Cheema

1995: Reaping Fruit and Throwing Seed, featuring Angela Davis & Chrystos

1996: Sojourn Within: Defining the True Essence of Our Power, featuring Elaine Brown & Ninotchka Rosca

1997: Uprising: Women’s Work is Never Done, featuring Nikki Gioovanni, Merle Woo, Nelia Sancho, Huanani-Kay Trask, Maria Elena Martinez-Torres, Alba Aguilera, & Krishanti Dharmaraj

1998: Celebrating Daughters of Diversity, featuring Sister Souljah, Norma Alarcon, Katie Quan, & Eva Patterson

2001: Girl to Goddess… Youth to Power, featuring Ursula Rucker

2002: Women of Color in Media, featuring Gina Prince-Bythewood & Felicia D. Henderson

2003: Fighting for Liberation! Expanding Our Notion of Revolution, featuring Yuri Kochiyama

2004: The Politicization of Women in Higher Education, featuring Sonia Sanchez

2005: Confronting Power: A Century of Struggles and Movements, featuring Elaine Brown, Lakota Harden, Dolores Huerta, Susan Taylor, Angela Oh)

2006: Nourishing Mother E.A.R.T.H. Environmental Awakening Restoring Traditions & Heritage, featuring Beverly Wright

2007: Our Bodies, Our Souls: Sistahood, Health and Healing, ​featuring Mililani Trask

2008: decolonizing creativity: FIERY WOMYN, FIERCE EXPRESSIONS, featuring Climbing Poetry

2009: Revolutionary Love, From “Me” to “We”: Redefining intimacy and activism, featuring Cherrie Moraga

2010: Intergenerational Wisdon: Celebrating Our Past, Present, & Future, featuring Rebecca Walker & Auroua Levins Morales

2011: Building Across Differences: Inciting a Movement of Our Own, featuring Angela Davis, Erika Huggins, & Dylcia Pagan)

2012: A Holistic Approach: Justice, Access, and Healing, featuring Andrea Smith & Radmilla Cody

2013: Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Bodies and Souls Building Life, featuring: Ai-jen Poo

2014: Talking Back! Our Voices Overcoming Violence, featuring: Loretta J. Ross, Minh Dang, Brianna Michelle, Kim Tran, & Dom Jones

2015: No Better Time Than Now: Transnational Resistance, Solidarity & Love, featuring Favianna Rodriguez, Corrina Gould, & CeCe McDonald

2016: ‪#‎DecolonizingFeminism‬: Reclaiming our Bodies and Communities in a Digital World, featuring Feminista Jones & many more

2017: Unbound and Unboxed: Owning, Asserting and Uplifting Our Whole Selves, featuring Fatimah Asghar & Ericka Huggins

2018: Free Space, Our Space: Actualizing Freedom, Asserting Presence, Cultivating Power, featuring Charlene Carruthers

2019: Rooted + Rising: Preserving Intergenerational Knowledge, Fostering Revolutionary Possibilities

2020: Metamorphosis: Casting Off Oppressive Paradigms to Live the Life We’ve Been Fighting For, featuring Yesika Salgado & Councilwoman Candi CdeBaca

2021: Igniting leadership, confidence, and cultural strength amongst Black & Indigenous womxn and womxn of color, featuring Roxane Gay & Tourmaline

  • EWOCC 2024: “Pleasure, Purpose, Power: Building Resiliency, Promoting Peace”

    The 39th Annual Empowering Womxn of Color Conference (EWOCC) was held in-person on March 16th, 2024. Commissioned Artist: Sylvia Blalock Born In San Francisco and raised in the eclectic San Francisco Bay Area including Oakland and Contra Costa County, Sylvia is a purpose driven artist who has worked in paint, charcoals, pixels, words, music, business…

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  • EWOCC 2023: “Flourish: Nourishing an Ecosystem of Joy”

    EWOCC 2023: “Flourish: Nourishing an Ecosystem of Joy” The 38th Annual Empowering Womxn of Color Conference (EWOCC) was held in-person on March 11th, 2023. Amir Khadar (They/Them) is a visual artist, designer, and educator from Minneapolis, working out of Philadelphia. Their artwork is intentionally positioned in social movement spaces, where it is central in creating…

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  • Venue: Ed Roberts Campus

    Ed Roberts Campus The Ed Roberts Campus is a nonprofit (501c3) corporation that has been formed by disability organizations that share a common history in the Independent Living Movement of People with Disabilities. These organizations joined together to build a universally designed, transit–oriented campus located at the Ashby BART Station in South Berkeley. The ERC…

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  • Commissioned Artist: Sylvia Blalock

    Sylvia Blalock Born In San Francisco and raised in the eclectic San Francisco Bay Area including Oakland and Contra Costa County, Sylvia is a purpose driven artist who has worked in paint, charcoals, pixels, words, music, business and love- she adds creativity, vision and purposeful action to the projects that she undertakes, sometimes handing them…

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