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Upcoming UUWF Events

    • Thursday, September 14, 2023
    • (CDT)
    • Thursday, May 09, 2024
    • (CDT)
    • 9 sessions
    • via Zoom
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    Join this group for Black women who are Unitarian Universalists and in seminary to support and uplift each other on this journey, centering on Black womanhood and Black joy and excellence.

    • Black: a person of the African diaspora experience
    • Women: self-identified women; queer and trans-inclusive
    • Unitarian Universalist: a core or primary faith path
    • Seminary: academic + internal spiritual development

    Topics

    September - Homecoming
    October - Academic Navigation
    November - Mental Health
    December - (open to all Black UU women religious professionals, not just seminarians)

    Our special guest, Takiyah Nur Amin, MFA., PhD, will be leading us on the topic of Kwanzaa. She is a dance scholar, educator, and academic success strategist. She has identified as a Unitarian Universalist for more than 20 years. Her writing has been featured in UU World Magazine, on WorshipWeb, as part of the Braver/Wiser project, in the Side With Love Worship Service, and in two edited volumes, Care for the World: Reflections on Community Ministry and BLUU Notes: An Anthology of Love, Justice and Liberation (co-edited with the Rev. Mykal Slack.) Dr. Amin has been featured as the Odyssey speaker by the Liberal Religious Educators Association (LREDA), as a keynote presenter at the Mosaic Makers: Leading Vital Multicultural Congregations National Conference and at several UU congregations, including Cedar Lane (Bethesda, MD,) Unitarian Universalist Area Church (Sherborn, MA,)  River Road Unitarian Universalist Congregation (Bethesda, MD) and at the Pennsylvania Universalist Convention (held at the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Berks County.) Dr. Amin is a former Religious Education Assistant at the congregation in Blacksburg, VA, a graduate of the UUA’s Multicultural Leadership School, and a past facilitator for the Thrive Young Adult/Grow Racial Justice program. In her previous capacity as a member of the Black Lives of Unitarian Universalism (BLUU) Organizing Collective Board, Dr. Amin lead the development of the Harper-Jordan Memorial Symposium, the BLUU Daily Affirmations ministry, the BLUU Harbors/Havens project and created monthly content for BLUUBox, a vital resource for those seeking to grow and deepen their faith from a Black Unitarian Universalist perspective. As an academic success strategist, Dr. Amin has consulted on curriculum design and led faculty development for several colleges, universities, and seminaries through her company, Black Girl Brilliance, LLC. Currently, Dr. Amin serves the faith as a member of the Ministerial Fellowship Committee (MFC.)


    January - Caregiving: Parents/Parenting/Mentorship
    February - Speaker TBA
    March - Intimate Partnership
    April - Speaker TBA (open to all Black women, not just seminarians)
    May - Giving Her Flowers: Honoring Transitions & Graduations
    (open to all Black women, not just seminarians)

    Co-Leads
    Dana Matthews-Moore, QuianaDenae Perkins, and the UU Women’s Federation

    Times
    Thursdays: 5 p.m. Pacific / 6 p.m. Mountain / 7 p.m. Central / 8 p.m. Eastern
    Saturdays: 10 a.m. Pacific / 11 a.m. Mountain / Noon Central / 1 p.m. Eastern

    Auto captioning will be available.


    • Tuesday, March 12, 2024
    • Tuesday, April 09, 2024
    • 3 sessions
    • via Zoom
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    Organizing 101: 
    Fundamentals of Grassroots Organizing for Change

    Presented by UUWF Director, Ann Wiesner

    Session One: Building Blocks of Organizing Strategy
    (March 12, 6:30-7:30 pm central)
    In this session we’ll explore the fundamentals of grassroots organizing, including:

    • The difference between organizing and mobilizing
    • Clarifying goals, strategies, and tactics   
    • Common pitfalls of organizing campaigns and how to avoid them

    Session Two: Building Power for Justice (March 26, 6:30-7:30 pm central)
    This session covers:

    • The use and mapping of power
    • Base-building 101
    • Matching targets and tactics

    Session Three: Engaging Others (April 9, 6:30-7:30 pm central)
    This session offers an overview of:

    • The One-on-One
    • Guiding questions for when things get stuck
    • Tip Share–hearing from each other about what’s worked and what hasn’t

    Ann Wiesner worked in the nonprofit sector advocating for children and families for 10 years before joining a startup national grassroots organizing consulting firm in 2000. Over the next 20 years, she helped build the firm from four employees to 40 at its peak, and led consulting projects with nonprofits, philanthropy, government, and mission-based corporations around the country. She left the firm in 2019 to go solo. In over 25 years, Ann has helped hundreds of organizations develop sustainable grassroots organizing, advocacy, and voter-facing programs, grow and train grassroots activists, and build organizational culture grounded in relationship and justice.  In 2020 as interim director for the UUWF, Ann helped UUWF re-imagine their work in the context of the shifts in the social justice landscape, craft a new vision, staff up, and launch new programming that centers relationship building and activism skill development. She joined UUWF as permanent director in 2022.  

    We hope you will join us for all three sessions of this program. If not, partial participation is also welcome. The program will be recorded.

    • Thursday, March 21, 2024
    • 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
    • via Zoom
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    Join our third Thursday programing.

    Our monthly zoom gatherings are a space to check in with each other on our justice journeys. We invite you to join as we grow and learn from our wider community of activists, advocates, allies, and co-conspirators. Each month, we invite a new guest, and in doing so, uplift the voices of women around the country.

    This month we welcome President Sofía Betancourt! She will share updates on her work and how we can plug into the UUA office. 

    Programming runs an hour. Auto captioning will be available.

    2:30 p.m Hawaii / 3:30 p.m Alaska / 4:30 p.m. Pacific / 5:30 p.m. Mountain / 6:30 p.m. Central / 7:30 p.m. Eastern

    Short Bio: The Rev. Dr. Sofía Betancourt is the tenth president of the Unitarian Universalist Association. She was elected in June 2023. As president of the Association, she is responsible for administering staff and programs that serve its more than 1,000 member congregations. She also acts as principal spokesperson and minister-at-large for the UUA.

    Read her full bio here

Unitarian Universalist Women's Federation is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization.

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