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DESCRIPTION:Join author\, founder\, and organizer Aida Mariam Davis as she 
 discusses her "love letter to Black futures\," Kindred Creation: Parables 
 & Paradigms for Freedom (2024). She will be in conversation with Dr. Lupe 
 Carrillo\, Assistant Dean for Diversity\, Equity\, and Inclusion at the St
 anford Doerr School of Sustainability to discuss frameworks of freedom and
  belonging that honor African and Indigenous wisdom and champion human dig
 nity. \n\nHybrid Event: In-person at Stanford Humanities Center at 10am. V
 irtual attendance available via zoom.\nVirtual attendees: Please register 
 via Zoom to receive the webinar link.\n\nAgenda\n9:30 AM – Doors open an
 d light breakfast reception provided. The first 35 people to check-in will
  receive a free book!\n10:00 AM – Discussion with Aida Mariam Davis & Dr
 . Lupe Carrillo (Hybrid option via Zoom)\n11:00 AM –Discussion ends and 
 author book signing \n\nAbout the Author\nAida Mariam Davis is the Chief P
 eople Officer at the Sierra Club and the founder of Decolonize Design\, a 
 boutique consulting firm working with nonprofits and Fortune 500 companies
 . She is the creator of the Belonging\, Dignity\, Justice\, and Joy (BDJJ)
  framework as an alternative to traditional DEI models. Her work exposes t
 he historical and ongoing impacts of settler colonialism\, illuminating ho
 w extraction\, oppression\, and enslavement serve the goals of empire—di
 srupting ancestral connections and relationships to self\, nature\, and co
 mmunity.\n\nAbout the Book (Description from Penguin Random House)\nDrawin
 g on African epistemologies and an embodied African beingness\, Kindred Cr
 eation is a call and response to dream and design worlds rooted in African
  lifeways. It is a path to Black freedom\, a love letter to Black futures\
 , and a blueprint for intergenerational Black joy and dignity—always on 
 Black terms. A vital path home. \n\nStructured in three parts—Remember\,
  Refuse\, and Reclaim—this philosophical guidebook offers readers a way 
 to:\n\nRemember: Uncover the cascading violence of settler colonialism and
  its impact on African land\, language\, lifestyle\, and labor.\n\nRefuse:
  Reject death-making institutions and embrace kinship and self-determinati
 on.\n\nReclaim: Recognize that freedom is within reach\, offering strategi
 es for reclaiming land\, language\, lifestyle\, and labor. The colonial vi
 olence and dispossession of African land\, language\, and labor is inflict
 ed intentionally—and by design. Reclaiming African lifeways and remember
 ing what was forcibly forgotten must be by creation: a remembering of our 
 interconnectedness and kinship.
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LOCATION:Humanities Center\, Levinthal Hall
SUMMARY:Sustaining Black Futures: A Conversation with Aida Mariam Davis
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