Transforming Communities: A Movement to Racial Justice Opening Keynote - Andrew Jolivette

Jolivette's keynote address, titled “To Thrive: Place-Based Knowledge, Memory and Indigenous Movement Building from the Bay to the World,” discusses place-based knowledge and how it is central to building movements for transformative justice.
In the Bay Area and across the world Indigenous Peoples activate their own knowledge systems and memory making to create, build, and sustain movements from Idle No More to MMIWG (Missing Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls) to calls for rematriation of land back movements to shifts from resilience and survival to thrivance and joy making through kinship practices for wellness and cultural stewardship. This talk explores the themes of Bay Area activism, memory, and relational accountability.