National Community Leadership Summit:
2021
Virtual
Communities
Rising
Reclaiming the Power of Us
October 18 and 22, 2021
How might we own and use our collective power to restore and rebuild our communities as we emerge from the global COVID-19 pandemic? Learn how communities across the country are using their collective power to reimagine their futures.
Check out the 2019 Summit Video!
Graphic Summary
2020
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Bestselling author, award winning poet, and Staff writer at The Atlantic,
Clint Smith
Porsha Olayiwola
Poet Laureate fellow with the American Academy of Poets, founder of the Roxbury Poet Festival
Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley
Congresswoman Pressley was elected to represent Massachusetts’ 7th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives and is an advocate, a policy-maker, an activist, and a survivor.
This is new territory for our communities-- COVID-19, widespread trauma, increasing inequity. We need a new toolkit, and collaborating with Vital Village we can help identify the tools needed to improve community resilience.
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Honor
Celebrate our Gifts.
Remember
Acknowledge our History.
Restore
Use our Collective Power to reimagine our future.