Join community leaders, social impact colleagues, and other changemakers for Forefront’s Annual Summit. This all-day event will include a contemporary spectrum of in-person and virtual sessions meant to EDUCATE, MOBILIZE, AND UNIFY Illinois’ social impact sector.
The Annual Summit will include:
- Fireside chat with Dr. Eve L. Ewing, author of Ghosts in the Schoolyard and 1919, and Julia Fabris McBride, author of When Everyone Leads: How Tough Challenges Get Seen and Solved.
- Launch of Forefront’s Racial Equity Collective interactive statewide map
- An in-depth look at Forefront’s 2023 Sector Snapshot Report
- Breakout sessions about the key to building trust, the power of collaboration, and more
- Space and time dedicated to networking, dreaming, and planning together with sector colleagues
First 75 registrants receive a free copy of When Everyone Leads!
SPEAKERS:
Julia Fabris McBride is Chief Civic Leadership Development Officer at the Kansas Leadership Center, where more than 15,000 people around the world have attended programs since 2007. A certified coach, former actor and co-author of Teaching Leadership, Julia splits her time between Wichita and Matfield Green, Kansas.
Dr. Eve L. Ewing is a writer, scholar, and cultural organizer from Chicago. She is the award-winning author of four books: the poetry collections Electric Arches and 1919, the nonfiction work Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side, and a novel for young readers, Maya and the Robot. She is the co-author (with Nate Marshall) of the play No Blue Memories: The Life of Gwendolyn Brooks. She has written several projects for Marvel Comics, most notably the Ironheart series, and is currently at the helm of Black Panther. Ewing is an associate professor in the Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity at the University of Chicago. Her work has been published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times, and many other venues. Currently she is working on her next book, Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism, which will be published by One World.
