Can't wait to start your COV4 experience?
Check out these three pre-conference institutes taking place right before the official conference kick off on Thurs, March 26th! There is no additional cost to attend the pre-conference institutes, but be sure to pre-register today, as space is sure to fill up quickly!
Pre-Conference Institute 1:
Organizing to Stop Law Enforcement Violence Against Women & Trans People of Color
9am - 3pm, Adler A
This pre-conference institute will bring together individuals and organizations from across the country who are using strategies from documentation, social media campaigns, cop watch and “know your rights” education, to changing law and policy and bringing lawsuits, and everything in between, to stop law enforcement violence against women and trans people of color!
Together, we’ll:
Open to: People of color organizing around law enforcement violence against women and transgender people of color!
Space is limited so REGISTER TODAY!
This pre-conference institute will bring together individuals and organizations from across the country who are using strategies from documentation, social media campaigns, cop watch and “know your rights” education, to changing law and policy and bringing lawsuits, and everything in between, to stop law enforcement violence against women and trans people of color!
Together, we’ll:
- talk about patterns, strategies, struggles and successes;
- collectively consider what we need to continue to elevate women and trans people’s experiences of state violence within the current conversation and national movement;
- begin to build a national network of organizations and organizers across the country organizing to challenge state violence against women, gender nonconforming, and trans people of color!
Open to: People of color organizing around law enforcement violence against women and transgender people of color!
Space is limited so REGISTER TODAY!
Pre-Conference Institute 2:
Will the revolution be funded? A dialogue between social change philanthropists
10am - 1pm, Burnham A
Social change philanthropists will discuss working to support mobilizations and movements for social, racial and economic justice that hold a critical analysis of the non-profit industrial complex and recognize the premise that “The Revolution will not be funded.” In this open dialogue, funders will come together to share insight, challenges, and funding models that honor grassroots efforts while holding an critical analysis of philanthropy and the nonprofit industrial complex.
Open to: Funders & philanthropists. Space is limited so REGISTER TODAY!
Social change philanthropists will discuss working to support mobilizations and movements for social, racial and economic justice that hold a critical analysis of the non-profit industrial complex and recognize the premise that “The Revolution will not be funded.” In this open dialogue, funders will come together to share insight, challenges, and funding models that honor grassroots efforts while holding an critical analysis of philanthropy and the nonprofit industrial complex.
Open to: Funders & philanthropists. Space is limited so REGISTER TODAY!
Pre-Conference Institute 3:
People of Color and Indigenous People with Life Experience in the Sex Trade
10 am - 3pm, Clark A
The People of Color, Indigenous people, and Black people with Life Experience in the Sex Trade preconference institute will foster and promote leadership of people with a broad range of experiences of the sex trades in their own communities and in larger sex trade movements by bringing together leaders from across the country. This pre-conference will break isolation, build new and strengthen existing relationships. Conference participants will be able to network, movement build and skill share together.
Open to: People of Color, Indigenous people, and Black people who have life experience in the sex trade. For more information, please email
The People of Color, Indigenous people, and Black people with Life Experience in the Sex Trade preconference institute will foster and promote leadership of people with a broad range of experiences of the sex trades in their own communities and in larger sex trade movements by bringing together leaders from across the country. This pre-conference will break isolation, build new and strengthen existing relationships. Conference participants will be able to network, movement build and skill share together.
Open to: People of Color, Indigenous people, and Black people who have life experience in the sex trade. For more information, please email