Equity Conference 2026

Virtual Conference | Thursday, March 12 to Saturday March 14, 2026

Our 2026 Equity Conference, “Thriving Through the Chaos: Resistance During
Turbulent Times,” will equip CFA members with tools to oppose fascism through joy, solidarity, and community. This year’s virtual conference will explore the ways we thrive together, how we move purposefully through the chaos, and maintain our focus to resist as a collective. Together, we remember that we are the power, we are united in purpose, and we are enough!

Registration will be available in February 2026.

Each chapter is encouraged to begin now to identify and invite CFA member activists with whom it seeks to strengthen relationship and engagement. The Council for Racial and Social Justice will sponsor up to three CFA member activists per chapter. Chapters will be responsible for cost associated with the attendance of other member activists.

More detailed information will be forthcoming in the next week.

Conference Narrative

Save the Dates! Thursday, March 12 – Saturday, March 14, 2026.

Equity Conference 2026

Thriving Through the Chaos:

Resistance During Turbulent Times

This year’s virtual conference will explore the ways we thrive together, how we move purposefully through the chaos, and maintain our focus to resist as a collective. Together, we remember that we are the power, we are united in purpose, and we are enough!

Speakers and workshop presentations will wrestle with these concepts and prepare conference attendees for active resistance:

Thrive – We see a value in the word “thrive” to signal ways to move together united in purpose with care, courage, security, and joy. Making space for joy is not an afterthought: it is a core strategy for maintaining our solidarity.
Chaos – The “chaos” refers to rising fascism and the speed at which harmful attacks are being enacted with the intention of breaking our solidarity. The rising fascism is intensive and is also rooted ongoing systemic structures and histories of racism, classism, sexism, transphobia, ableism, and xenophobia, At the university, we know the chaos is about the university-level budget cuts and the lack of participatory budgeting; surveillance; and silencing. If the chaos is intersectional, so too is our resistance.
Resistance – Thus, we see value in understanding “resistance” as collective action. Fear is an important response, but we envision how to move from being afraid to inhabiting purposeful anger and unifying power. We will not comply in advance; we will imagine and rise together and build better structures, institutions, and systems.
Community – Without community, we fall. Community is understood here in both the global and local sense: how do we connect with community to support each other, build structures for resistance, and new systems.

Mark your calendars to save the dates. The registration is coming soon. In the meantime, Please contact your CFA Chapter Council for Racial and Social Justice Representative and Field Staff so that they can make sure you receive the registration link when it is available.

Margarita Berta-Avila, Sacramento, Education
Chris Cox, San José, Sociology, Interdisciplinary Social Sciences
Preeti Sharma, Long Beach, American Studies
Ahlam Muhtaseb, San Bernardino, Media Studies
Dahna Stowe, Bakersfield, Sociology
Dale Allender, Sacramento, Language and Literacy
Theresa Avila, Channel Island, non-Western Art History
Rabab Abdulhadi, San Francisco, Ethnic Studies
Gloria Rhodes, San Diego, Library
Andrea Terry, Sacramento, Communication Studies
Leslie Bryan, San Bernardino, Theatre Arts
Libby Lewis, Los Angeles, Africana Studies
Mark Allan Davis, San Francisco, Africana Studies
Adisa Alkebulan, San Diego, Africana Studies
Audrena Redmond, CFA Staff: Director for Anti-Racism and Social Justice
N’dea Johnson, CFA Staff: Program Director of Anti-Racism and Social Justice
Kiarra Lee, CFA Staff: Events Specialist
Adrian Parra, CFA Staff: Anti-Racism and Social Justice Organizer
Cailey Bronny, CFA Staff: Anti-Racism and Social Justice Administrative Assistant