Intercollegiate Peace Fellowship

1. Keynote speaker
   Dr. Kaye Whitehead will address current realities facing the Black Lives Matter Movement, as well as its history and its connection to the Civil Rights Movement.
2. Responses
   * Nekeisha Alexis is an occasional writer, speaker, and independent scholar on topics related to resisting oppression, with special interests in the intersections of racism/white supremacy, sexism/patriarchy, Anabaptist/Christian theology and ethics, and human violence and exploitation against other animals.
   * Dr. Darryl Heller is the Director for Student and Community Engagement at Indiana University South Bend and also serves as the Executive Director of IUSB’s Civil Rights Heritage Center.
3. Plenary discussion

3 teach-in options:

1. Toni Woods and Sharon Kniss: Real talk. Real issues. Real stories. This interactive workshop will keep it real by engaging the question of “what is my part?” through collaborative conversation and discussion. The conversation will be hosted by community leaders from neighboring South Bend, Indiana – Toni Woods, a leader in innovative black empowerment efforts as a mother and entrepreneur, and Sharon Kniss, a transplant white peacebuilder working at justice and community-building concerns.
2. Joshua Russell: His teach-in will be built on his work in advocacy  as legislative assistant and communications director for the Washington office of Mennonite Central Committee US, where he focuses on criminal justice reform, with particular attention given to the racial disparities in the US criminal justice system.
3. Nicole Bauman, Donald Brown, Jean Carter, and Jason Shenk: These Elkhart-based activists will explore organizing approaches that are “intersectional,” addressing what the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King called the triple evils of racism, poverty, and militarism—and the ways this work relates to Black Lives Matter.

2 teach-in options:

1. Antonius Northern, Laquan Lunford, and Chanel Beebe: their teach-in will be part performance, part discussion, part class room. They will explain their craft—spoken word and poetry—and invite participants to consider how they might use spoken word in their justice work.
2. Nicole Bauman: She will lead an informal session on self-care within the context of privilege, speaking as a white woman. She will speak to understanding place as an ally, and lead a session on yoga as a self-care practice.