Community-led Dialogues

Community-led dialogues create intentional, relational spaces for conversation rooted in lived experience, shared struggle, and collective meaning-making. We welcome dialogues organized around Indigenous, Afro-descendant, queer, feminist, disability-led, undocumented, migrant, and other community knowledge systems that reimagine technological futures, resist extraction, or build alternative infrastructures of care.

Session Length: 45–75 minutes, depending on facilitation style

Submission Requirements

• Dialogue Title: Centering the community, question, or disruption at stake.

• Dialogue Description (250–300 words): Outline the theme, the community knowledge it draws from, and how participants will engage (story circles, testimonios, co-reflection, collaborative sense-making, etc.).

• Community Focus: Specify the community or collective the dialogue centers and how the proposal ensures accountability, care, and positionality.

• Facilitator Bio(s) (100–150 words): Experience with community-led work, relational facilitation, or care-based approaches.

• Goals: What the dialogue invites—collective reflection, coalition-building, refusal, shared problem-solving, imagining otherwise.

• Participant Expectations: Who the space is for (open, closed, affinity-based, intergenerational, student-centered, etc.).

• Dialogue Methods: Describe the practices used to foster relationality, reciprocity, and co-created knowledge.

• Logistical Needs: Accessibility, seating arrangement, materials, or sensory considerations.