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What agile event programs are and why they're essential

Jet Rodriguez

VP, Marketing

Pete Richardson is a host of exceptional ability. Studies show that a vast majority of guests attending events by Pete have been known to leave more elated than visitors to Santa's Workshop, The Lost of Continent of Atlantis, and the Fountain of Youth.

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9:00AM - 10:00 AM

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Thursday, March 30, 2023
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM EST
VIRTUAL EVENT

Border Futures

Narrative Showcase

Join us for the official launch event for the Rise-Home Stories Project, a groundbreaking body of multimedia projects that re-imagine our relationship to land and home. 

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Virtual Event: How to Build an Agile Events Program

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About

the Event

Join us for On What Matters, a conversation series hosted by Ford's executive vice president for program Hilary Pennington, where social justice leaders share their big ideas for a more just world. Through these conversations we are building a social justice community and learning more about the grantees changing our world.

Our first conversation features Dessa Cosma, founding director of Detroit Disability Power and seasoned social justice advocate. Dessa and Hilary will discuss the importance of intersectional approaches to justice, what needs to change to get disabled people out of the bottom of every quality life index, and much more.

Join us live on the Ford Foundation social media channels. We hope you will submit a question through this registration form!

Key takeaways:

About the Event

Join us for the launch of Border Futures: A Guide for Impact Storytelling, a showcase of creative and movement projects and interventions, and a conversation. Border Futures was inspired by the brilliant work of artists, storytellers, and activists from the border region who participated in the Center for Cultural Power and the Reclaiming the Border Narrative Project cohort. The guide is designed as a narrative change tool that can be used to amplify the stories that advance the values and vision emerging out of the transformative practices in the United States-Mexico border region communities. Our goal is to highlight stories that reflect the dignity, truth, aspirations, and struggles of migrants and border communities. It is a reminder to audiences that we all belong. 


This session is designed for border stakeholders, creatives, narrative strategists, and funders looking for ways to uplift and amplify the voices and stories in border communities that reflect a vibrant, diverse, and expansive vision of the United States-Mexico border region and its future.


Reclaiming the Border Narrative is an effort to penetrate and shape the national attention on migration and the United States-Mexico border by supporting authentic storytelling by affected communities on the cultures and socio-political dynamics that comprise the region. Ford Foundation is partnering with the Center for Cultural Power, the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, and the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures on this initiative. Visit here for more information.



Speakers

adrienne maree brown 

emergent strategist. pleasure activist. futurist. writer.

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Dr. Eve L. Ewing

Sociologist of education and an award-winning author

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Christina Rosales

Deputy director of Texas Housers

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JaNaé Bates

Communications director, Faith Minnesota and ISAIAH

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Chrishelle Palay

Director of the Houston Organizing Movement for Equity (HOME) Coalition

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Mike Leyba

Director of development for the anti-displacement community organizing group City Life/Vida Urbana

Mike Leyba is a mapmaker, legend and myth writer, futurist, and community weaver of latinx and chicanx people. He is the director of development for the anti-displacement community organizing group City Life/Vida Urbana and has been a part of this community since 2012.

 

As part of the Rise-Home Stories Project, Mike helped author Alejandria Fights Back! / ¡La Lucha de Alejandria!, a children’s book about displacement (published by Feminist Press, August 2021) and is a writer for the animated web series MINE. 

Angela Tucker

Writer, director and Emmy nominated producer

Angela Tucker is a writer, director and Emmy nominated producer. Her most recent projects are The Trees Remember, a fiction series in collaboration with REI Co-op Studios and I can’t change 400 years in four (co-directed with Kristi Jacobson), a short documentary currently streaming on Mother Jones and PBS' Independent Lens.

Evan Narcisse

Writer and consultant 

Evan Narcisse is a writer and consultant who works in video games, comic books, and TV, often focusing on the intersection of blackness and pop culture. He was a journalist and critic for many years, having previously written for The Atlantic, Time Magazine, Kotaku, io9, and The New York Times.


He has taught a course on video game journalism at New York University and appeared as an expert guest on CNN and NPR. He's the author of the Rise of the Black Panther graphic novel for Marvel Comics and served as a narrative design consultant on the upcoming Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales video game. A native New Yorker, he now lives in Austin, Texas

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Dessa Cosma
Founding Director,
Detroit Disability Power

Dessa Cosma is the founding director of Detroit Disability Power. She is a longtime social justice organizer who has spent her career working for reproductive, racial, economic, and disability justice. She is committed to bridging the gap between disability inclusion and other social justice efforts in order to build big, powerful movements that dismantle interlocking systems of oppression.

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Hilary Pennington

Executive Vice President,
Ford Foundation

Hilary Pennington is the executive vice president of the Ford Foundation, where she oversees all of Ford’s programs globally and works closely across programs and offices to ensure strategic, meaningful, and well-aligned global grantmaking. She also oversees the foundation’s BUILD and Global Fellowship programs and the Office of Strategy and Learning. From 2013-2017, she served as the foundation’s vice president for Education, Creativity, and Free Expression. Prior to joining Ford, Hilary led the Postsecondary Success strategy and U.S. Special Initiatives at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Generations Initiative. For 20 years, she led Jobs for the Future, a nationally recognized organization she co-founded that works to advance economic and educational opportunity.

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Fernanda Hopenhaym

Saliem Fakir

Saliem Fakir is the founder and executive director of the African Climate Foundation (ACF), the first grantmaking foundation on the continent focused on furthering solutions for sustainable climate development. A climate, geopolitics, and finance economics expert, Saliem served as head of the policy and futures unit of World Wildlife Fund (WWF) South Africa before founding ACF. He has also worked a number of high-level roles at the Department of Public Administration and Planning, the Centre for Renewable and Sustainable Energy at Stellenbosch University, and the World Conservation Union in South Africa. Saliem has served on several boards and is a prolific writer who contributes regularly to leading South African publications such as Engineering News, Business Day, and the Daily Maverick.

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Hilary Pennington

Hilary Pennington is the executive vice president of the Ford Foundation, where she oversees all of Ford’s programs globally and works closely across programs and offices to ensure strategic, meaningful, and well-aligned global grantmaking. She also oversees the foundation’s BUILD and Global Fellowship programs and the Office of Strategy and Learning. From 2013-2017, she served as the foundation’s vice president for Education, Creativity, and Free Expression. Prior to joining Ford, Hilary led the Postsecondary Success strategy and U.S. Special Initiatives at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Generations Initiative. For 20 years, she led Jobs for the Future, a nationally recognized organization she co-founded that works to advance economic and educational opportunity.

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Erin Hildebrant

Erin Hildebrant will be speaking about their experience working as an event marketer. 

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Blair Doster

Blair Doster will be speaking about their experience as an art director and organizer of design events.

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adrienne marie brown

emergent strategist. pleasure activist. futurist. writer.

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Dr. Eve L. Ewing

Sociologist of education and an award-winning author

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Christina Rosales

Deputy director of Texas Housers

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JaNaé Bates

Communications director, Faith Minnesota and ISAIAH

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Chrishelle Palay

Director of the Houston Organizing Movement for Equity (HOME)
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Mike Leyba

Director of development for the anti-displacement community organizing group City Life/Vida Urbana

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Event Information

Accessibility

The Ford Foundation is committed to hosting accessible, inclusive events. Live-captioning (CART), American Sign Language (ASL), and Simultaneous Spanish Interpretation will be available during the event. If you require an accommodation or service or if you are experiencing any accessibility issues with the registration site, please contact events@fordfoundation.org as soon as possible.

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If you have any questions please email events@fordfoundation.org.

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Agenda

7:00–7:10

All Speakers

Welcome Intro

Hosts will introduce themselves and get you up to speed on the webinar's agenda.

7:10–7:20

Sab Pell, Openform

Opening Remarks

Host Sab Pell will take you through the hot topics and best practices to move forward with.

7:20–7:45

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Panel Begins

Open Q&A between guest presenters and attendees.

7:45-8:00

Jet Rodriguez, Righteous, Inc.

Closing Thoughts

Guest speaker Jet Rodriguez will keep us informed on what the future of virtual events will begin to look like.

Your Host

Sab Pell

Sr. Director of Product Marketing

Sab Pell is senior director of product marketing at Openform, where her goal is to help people unlock the power of in-person events. Prior to Openform, she led global product marketing teams.

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About the Rise-Home Stories Project

The Rise-Home Stories Project is a groundbreaking collaboration between multimedia storytellers and social justice advocates from grassroots organizations who work at the nexus of housing, land, and racial justice in the United States. Formed in 2018, they hope to reimagine the past, present, and future of our communities by transforming the stories we tell about land and home. 


The Ford Foundation's Just Cities and Regions program has supported the development of the Rise-Home collaboration and these projects as part of its goals to advance new visionary narratives about development, home, and belonging.

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Sr. Director of Product Marketing

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Sab Pell is senior director of product marketing at Openform, where her goal is to help people unlock the power of in-person events. Prior to Openform, she led global product marketing teams. Sab Pell is senior director of product marketing at Openform, where her goal is to help people unlock the power of in-person events. Prior to Openform, she led global product marketing teams.

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