Equity Conference 2026 Thriving Through the Chaos: Resistance During Turbulent Times
This year’s virtual Equity 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’s Council for Racial and Social Justice Representative or CFA field representative so that they can make sure you receive the registration link when it is available.
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