For Saturday’s dinner, we’ll enjoy a meal from Neighborhood Kitchen. Please join us for:

• Announce the Raffle Winners

• Closing Statements

• Spoken Word Showcase

• Food and vibes!

Want to purchase St. Clair’s book? Want to buy some handmade jewelry from a Black woman-owned business? Come through!

In this Sound Bath & Healing Workshop, Kay Shakespeare, Wellness Curator, will help us be proactive about our mental health and think of our well-being as a continuous, intersectional process.

In Building a Poetic Life, Precious Musa will lead participants in encountering poetry as an artistic form that transcends the page and can serve as the foundation for inward-facing revolution and liberation.

In Black Hair + Storytelling as a Form of Social Activism, St. Clair Detrick-Jules will discuss what she’s learned through her almost four-year-long journey photographing and interviewing 101 Black women with natural hair for her photojournalism book, My Beautiful Black Hair: 101 Natural Hair Stories from the Sisterhood, a large-scale visual anthropology exploring the deep, complex relationships across generations between Black women and their hair.

Lunch catered by the undeniably delicious ZaZ Restaurant!

Join Pearl Young, Tufts alum and founder of Harlem Grooves, in Moving Through, a dance session where she will guide attendees in conscious movement through a spoken introduction followed by a dynamic warm up and choreographed phrase to focus the movement on uplifting personal narratives.

Liberating the Creative Soul will explore intentional silliness as a pathway to empowerment. If we can allow ourselves to be playful and generous with each other in that playfulness—as is the core of improv—then we open a door to liberate the self that thrives on creative play. Chance Walker, leader of ENVISION Black Theater Troupe, will lead this workshop and offer attendees a window into her own creative process, as well as what we can gain from leaning into improv’s guiding rules.

We’re excited to welcome Lurie Daniel Favors, Esq. to the 3rd Annual Black Women’s Empowerment Conference at Tufts University! Ms. Daniel Favors started her legal career as an attorney in the New York offices of Proskauer Rose LLP and Manatt Phelps and Phillips, LLP. She later founded Daniel Favors Law PLLC, a law firm that focused on economic and racial justice. Before completing law school, Ms. Daniel Favors co-founded Sankofa Community Empowerment, Inc., a non-profit organization designed to educate and empower communities of African descent. She later co-founded Breaking the Cycle Consulting Services LLC, which specializes in creating comprehensive professional development for educators, youth education programs and family engagement workshops designed to address the crisis in urban education through the use of culturally responsive teaching. Ms. Daniel Favors has been busy affecting change.

This year, our Conference theme and title, Rise, Reawaken, Rediscover: A Black Woman’s Renaissance, seeks to recognize the extraordinary work that Black women achieve with our everyday magic. As a culture, we have entered a Renaissance in which Black women are becoming reacquainted with their power. There’s been a shift. Join us Saturday morning as Ms. Daniel Favors speaks to this idea, as well as answers the question: what does empowerment mean to you and how has its meaning evolved?

Welcome and Introductions by Senior Director of the Africana Center, Katrina Moore, M.Ed. and Dayna L. Cunningham, JD, MBA, Dean of Tisch College of Civic Life.

Haven’t you always wanted to go to a “sip n paint” party? Us too! We’re excited to offer attendees the opportunity to commune with us and vibe out to our rendition of a “sip n paint” kickback! We’ll be offering paint kits from Ray Tennyson. There may or may not be Ari Lennox playing in the background. We look forward to connecting with you on Friday night!

Please join us Friday, March 10th from 5-8 pm for registration, refreshments, and a “Paint n Pose” activity where attendees will have the opportunity to complete their own paint-by-number kit. We’re providing paint kits from Ray Tennyson. We look forward to seeing you there! 

Registrants will automatically be entered into a raffle. We’ll announce raffle winners at dinner on Saturday!