SiX National Conference 2024: Full Schedule

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4:30pm EST

CROP Meet & Greet

Wednesday December 11, 2024 4:30pm - 5:15pm EST

A casual space to learn about the SiX Cohort for Rural Opportunity & Prosperity (CROP), meet the SiX Ag team, and connect with fellow CROP members.

Speakers

Siena Chrisman

SiX Staff Session Lead

Wednesday December 11, 2024 4:30pm - 5:15pm EST
International 10 Breakout

Breakout, Breakout Block A

Host Organization State Innovation Exchange
Media Closed to Media

10:30am EST

What Now? Regrouping After the Election

Thursday December 12, 2024 10:30am - 11:45am EST

International 10 Breakout

It’s been six weeks since another consequential election and in spite of a national fixation on federal races, state legislatures continue to be the most important locus of both forward progress and anti-democratic backsliding. In this session, we’ll gather in the aftermath of the election to regroup and strategize about how state leaders can build a democracy that works for all of us while blocking the rise of authoritarianism in state houses.

Speakers

Rep. Jasmine Clark

State Representative, Georgia-108

Dr. Jasmine Clark is a Georgia native and mother of two. She has a BS and PhD is Microbiology, and currently serves as an Assistant Teaching Professor at Emory University in Atlanta, GA. After running on a platform of bringing a science voice to the GA General Assembly, Jasmine Clark... Read More →

Jessie Ulibarri

Co-Executive Director, State Innovation Exchange (SiX)

Hon. Jessie Ulibarri is SiX’s Co-Executive Director. As a queer person of color, as a parent, and as someone who grew up in a trailer park, Jessie viscerally understands the demands the progressive movement makes of our elected officials for radical, transformative change. As a... Read More →

Ivan Luevanos-Elms

Executive Director, Local Progress & Local Progress Impact Lab

Ivan Luevanos-Elms is the Executive Director of Local Progress and the Local Progress Impact Lab. Ivan is applying his nearly 15 years of experience in municipal government, electoral campaigns and grassroots organizing to helping the more than 1500 elected officials across the country... Read More →

Taifa Smith Butler

President, Demos

Taifa Smith Butler (she/her) is the President of Demos, a movement-oriented think tank committed to racial justice. Through research, litigation, strategic communications, and deep partnerships with grassroots organizations across the country, Demos builds power with and for Black... Read More →

Kesi Foster

Co-Executive Director, Partners for Dignity and Rights (P4DR)

Kesi is the Co-Executive Director at Partners for Dignity and Rights (P4DR) where he works in partnership with community organizations organizing to secure and expand social and economic rights and building power towards a more just and equitable future for all. He was previously... Read More →

Thursday December 12, 2024 10:30am - 11:45am EST
International 10 Breakout

Breakout, Breakout Block B

Host Organization State Innovation Exchange
Media Closed to Media

1:15pm EST

Reimagining the Peoples’ House: Modernizing Our State Legislatures

Thursday December 12, 2024 1:15pm - 2:30pm EST

International 10 Breakout

What does it mean for our democracy when nearly 90% of all state legislators are paid less than their state’s median household income and fewer than 2 percent hold working-class jobs? Or when nearly 8 in 10 of our nation’s 7,383 state lawmakers are white, though people of color represent roughly 40% of adults in the US? From our nation’s founding, state legislatures have been exclusive institutions designed to uphold the interests of the wealthy and well-connected elite. If we are to build an irresistible future, we also need to level the playing field in state legislatures, where the rules of the game are currently rigged in favor of corporate interests and far-right extremists. In this workshop, participants will reimagine state legislatures as the People’s House—democratic institutions designed to center community voices and power.

Speakers

Sen. Faith K. Winter

State Senator, Colorado-25

Senator Faith Winter started her political career inspiring people into action, including training thousands of women to run for office at The White House Project and fighting for environmental justice.In 2007 she was elected to the Westminster City Council where she was a leader... Read More →

Anthony Gad

SiX Staff Session Lead

Julia Isaacs Tse

Director of Special Projects

Aditi Juneja

Executive Director, Democracy 2076

Aditi Juneja is the Executive Director of Democracy 2076, an organization founded in 2023 working long-term to change our Constitution, political culture, and political parties. She was most recently Chief of Staff at the Movement Voter Project and previously spent 4 years at Protect... Read More →

Del. Elizabeth Bennett-Parker

Delegate, 5th Virginia House District

Elizabeth Bennett-Parker is the Delegate for the 5th Virginia House District, located in Alexandria.Elizabeth is the fifth member of the House of Delegates to give birth while in office (in 405 years), and she is committed to supporting children and families. She has championed early... Read More →

Sarah Hague

Chief Program Officer, Vote Mama Foundation

Sarah is a political social worker who has spent her career engaging young adults and womxn in government and politics. Sarah has started Youth Advisory Boards for 4 Congressmembers, mobilizing over 500 students. At Vote Mama Foundation, she spearheads the organization’s work on... Read More →

Thursday December 12, 2024 1:15pm - 2:30pm EST
International 10 Breakout

Breakout, Breakout Block D

Host Organization State Innovation Exchange
Media Closed to Media

2:45pm EST

The Story We Tell Matters: How to Craft an Irresistible Narrative

Thursday December 12, 2024 2:45pm - 4:00pm EST

International 10 Breakout

As Audre Lorde famously noted, “There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.” We cannot talk about the threats to reproductive rights, for example, without connecting to other issues like democracy, economic justice, and rural issues. Learn and actively create with community partners, state legislators, and other communications experts how to build cross-issue communications strategies that work in your community.

Speakers

Crystal Monds

Communications and Digital Media Coordinator, Amplify Georgia Collaborative

Crystal Monds (she/they) is a BlaQueer Southern-born healing practitioner and visual artist whose cultural ties to Creole and Deep South identities inform her work to better serve, center, and nurture gender-marginalized folks in her community. This background is where Crystal’s... Read More →

Eme Crawford

SiX Staff Session Lead

Roula AbiSamra

Amplify Georgia Collaborative

Rep. Anna V. Eskamani

State Representative, Florida-42

Thursday December 12, 2024 2:45pm - 4:00pm EST
International 10 Breakout

Breakout, Breakout Block E

Host Organization State Innovation Exchange
Media Closed to Media

10:30am EST

Huddle Room

Friday December 13, 2024 10:30am - 11:20am EST

International 10 Breakout

Do you need space to debrief with colleagues from your state? Need somewhere quiet to regroup with people that you’ve just met at the conference? Want to self-organize a meet up with other attendees from the same region or around a particular topic in the app? Meet up in the huddle room to connect and get organized!

Friday December 13, 2024 10:30am - 11:20am EST
International 10 Breakout

Breakout, Breakout Block E

Host Organization State Innovation Exchange