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
2022: Restoration and Reconnection, featuring Imani Barbarin
2023: Florish, Nourishing an Ecosystem of Joy, featuring Taina Asili
2024: Pleasure, Purpose, Power: Building Resilency, Promoting Peace Featuring Tracie Collins
