I also honor James Baldwin and Harriet Tubman as ancestors who guide my practice. Liz: I am deeply inspired by my birthday twin, Ella Baker, as well as the many black feminist revolutionaries who ground my practice as an artist-organizer: Toni Morrison, Audre Lorde, Toni Cade Bambara, Pauli Murray, June Jordan, Zora Neale Hurston, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Marsha P.
Sagittarius 🌞, Taurus 🌙 What movement ancestors most inspire you? I feel deeply and daily blessed to serve such a liberating, expansive ecosystem like the AMC, and can’t wait to gather again in 2022. I’m an organizer for abolition and environmental justice here in Detroit and am guided by my ancestors, black feminism, joy, ceremony, and connection to the more than human world.
Outside of AMP, I alchemize with Lead to Life, a collective of queer artists that transforms guns into the otherwise to commemorate black folks and land impacted by violence.
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I’m also deepening study in how to best center disability justice, Detroit-rootedness, consentful tech, abolition and more. Right now, that looks like strategizing how to best organize accessible virtual spaces, co-producing a vinyl, and amplifying the amazing work happening in our AMC community. My first official AMC was in 2018, although I was attending the events before that (lol!) My role as Coordinator is to co-create spaces for artists and organizers to strategize, celebrate, and cross-pollinate across movements and mediums. I’m celebrating one year as Program Coordinator for the Allied Media Conference after joining AMP as Development Associate in 2019. Outside of my work with the AMC, I work with young artists through InsideOut Literary Arts Detroit and nurture my own creative practices of writing through poetry, cooking, and practicing a new way to see the world through film photography. I love that working on the AMC offers me an opportunity to connect deeply with community leaders making media for liberation and collaborate to create visionary strategies to support our movements. My role as director is to create a space that nurtures and supports an ecosystem of artists and organizers who are excited to dream up the liberatory worlds we need. The AMC has been a political home and a place where I can practice how to lead from a place of liberation honing in on my purpose as a writer and organizer to be a weaver of communities of artists and organizers practicing liberation.Īs Director of the AMC, I have the opportunity to practice that weaving by working with hundreds of coordinators and presenters making media for liberation and/or creating visionary strategies to support our movements. I started working with the AMC in 2017 as a Content Coordinator and transitioned to becoming the Director of the conference in 2019. I feel so proud to continue calling this place my home. Mars: My name is Mars (They/He) I’m a writer and cultural organizer who was born and raised in Detroit. Who organizes the Allied Media Conference? Tell us about who you are and your role in making the AMC happen.
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