AGENDA 2026
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OPENING SESSION - FROM INDEPENDENCE TO INTERDEPENDENCE: WHO DO WE WANT TO BE TO ONE ANOTHER IN A TIME OF GREAT CHANGE?
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM ET
Come connect with one another, hear what has been going on across our networks, share what you have been up to, and engage in a conversation about what roots us to one another and to the work. Together, we will begin to explore what it could look like to develop a root system that nourishes a movement together and develop core principles and practices about what our own Declaration of Interdependence as a movement across networks, sectors and perspectives would allow us to learn/unlearn, heal and build what we need together.
Speakers: All of us!
Featured speakers/facilitators: Jeff Campbell, Emancipation Theater. Colleen Flynn, Build Healthy Places Network, Geordan Shannon, Unexia and WE in the World and Planet Health, Bayo Akomolafe, Dances with Mountains and many others
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Type: virtual
WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A BETTER ANCESTOR IN HEALTHCARE
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM ET
Come explore the changemaker journey of a better ancestor and get involved in our newest strategy to restore mission over margin in healthcare. Hear from healthcare and public health leaders around the country who are showing how to make this happen.
Featured Speakers: Jasmine Hutchinson, Loma Linda; Melina Boudov, Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, Shu-ling Zhao, Kate Behan, Somava Saha, WE in the World
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Type: virtual
FUNDERS (AND INTERMEDIARIES) AS BETTER ANCESTORS: ROOTED PHILANTHROPY (Invite only)
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM ET
Explore and share your reflections on a new framework and toolkit developed by WE in the World about Rooted Philanthropy, for funders and intermediaries working to be better ancestors in creating a world grounded in our collective thriving. Developed with and from the insights of funders, communities and intermediaries.
Featured speakers: Irmin Durand, Lourdes Rodriguez, Somava Saha, Erin Saltmarsh
Please email erin.saltmarsh@weintheworld.org to request an invite.
Type: virtual
DATA FOR POWER COOPERATIVE: ROOTING AND REIMAGINING OUR DATA
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM ET
In a time when so many of our existing data systems are being dismantled, what does it look like to reimagine what data is, how it works, who gets to decide? Come here from pioneers across the country who are reimagining and reclaiming what it means for data to be rooted and reimagined with communities.
Featured speakers: Abeni Bloodworth, Jonathan Scaccia, Angela Johnson, Elizabeth Romero, Lauren Dapena-Fraiz
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Type: virtual
BECOMING A BETTER ANCESTOR ROOT SYSTEM FOR GENERATIONAL CHANGE
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM ET
What does it mean to be better ancestors creating generational change? Come hear about the Better Ancestor changemaker journey, hear from some of our global better ancestor hubs, share your better ancestor story and idea and be part of shaping our first Better Ancestor study circle.
Featured speakers: Deon Snyman, Sarah Crawford-Browne, Isatou Sanko, Somava Saha
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Type: virtual
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