Equity Conference 2025 Less Than a Month Away

In less than a month, many of us will be attending the 2025 Equity Conference, Seasons of Solidarity: Tending Our Legacy, Planting Our Future. The first two days (March 12-13) are virtual, and the last three days (March 14-16) will be in person in San Diego.

Our conference presenters and workshop leaders will use the present to help participants imagine futures where all people thrive. This will certainly be the case with Keynotes like author Ijeoma Oluo and civil rights activists Linda Sarsour. There will be art, poetry, music, and dance, so come with your creative energy and dancing shoes for joy and jubilation.

Please contact your chapter president, CRSJ representative and/or chapter field staff if you are interested in attending. The conference planning committee looks forward to seeing you. 

Each chapter is encouraged to begin now to identify and invite CFA member activists with whom it seeks to strengthen relationship and engagement. The Council for Racial and Social Justice will sponsor up to three CFA member activists per chapter. Chapters will be responsible for cost associated with the attendance of additional member activists.  

A project of the Council for Racial & Social Justice (CRSJ), the conference planning committee is very much looking forward to the richness of a face-to-face experience. The last time the Equity Conference was in person was on the eve of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic shut-down.

This annual conference reflects CFA members concerted efforts to center anti-racism and social justice, something that is regularly an urgent need in our society. Significant gains made in the recent re-opener contract struggle reflect CFA’s pledge to center ARSJ. We (our peoples, sovereignties, and nations) continue to be threatened by political upheaval, blurred lines between state and religion, challenges to the core mission of the CSU, and looming austerity.

Equity Conference 2025 will focus on the ways we hold fast and thrive while weathering seasons of change as we tend our legacy and plant our future. Guiding themes for the conference are:  

• Care, Community and Connection (Fall) 
• Joy and Jubilation (Spring) 
• Radical Self-Care (Winter) 
• Rupture and Reconciliation (Summer) 

You can learn more about previous CFA equity conferences with a visit to the Council of Racial and Social Justice webpage on the CFA website at https://www.calfac.org/council-for-racial-social-justice/.