Welcome to the 2023 Teen Summit hosted by End Domestic Abuse WI!

About the Teen Summit

The annual Teen Summit is End Domestic Abuse Wisconsin’s largest training, bringing youth, parents, educators, activists, and mentors from all over Wisconsin to learn about healthy relationships, teen dating violence, and sexual assault within a larger anti-oppression framework. We include educational and enthusiastic plenary speakers, youth-led workshops as well as topic-related performances.

We are excited to announce that the 2023 Teen Summit will be from 5/19/23 5/21/23 at the Kalahari Resorts in Wisconsin Dells! 

Safety Note | We will be monitoring COVID-19 outbreaks and variants and make changes as needed. We will require attendees to wear KN95 masks (they will be provided) along with proof of vaccinations status and/or a negative COVID-19 test result that is taken within 48 hours of the event.

Keynote Speakers

Aisha Fukushima 

AISHA FUKUSHIMA is a Performance Lecturer, Justice Strategist, Singer/Songwriter, and RAPtivist (rap activist). Fukushima founded RAPtivism (Rap Activism), a hip hop project spanning 20 countries and four continents, amplifying universal efforts for freedom and justice. She is a multilingual, multiracial African American Japanese woman who has done lectures and performances everywhere from the United States to France, Morocco, Japan, Germany, England, South Africa, Senegal, India, Denmark and beyond. Fukushima’s ‘RAPtivism’ work has been featured on Oprah Magazine, TEDx, KQED Public Television, The Seattle Times, TV 2M Morocco, The Bangalore Mirror, HYPE, South Africa’s #1 Hip Hop Magazine, and Tour highlights include performing for audiences of over 20,000 people in Nepal, speaking with the President of Estonia about the power of music to create change, and sharing stages with the likes of Bernie Sanders, Angela Davis, Emory Douglas (Black Panthers), KRS-One, Herbie Hancock, Christian McBride, The Isley Brothers, and M1 (Dead Prez). As a public speaker, Aisha combines the art of performance and lecture. In my keynotes she links themes such as hip hop, global citizenship, empowerment, feminism and cultural activism through storytelling as well as live musical performance.  

 

Kay Ulanday Barrett 

Named as a Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Writers You Should Know by Vogue Magazine, Kay Ulanday Barrett is a poet, essayist, cultural strategist, and A+ napper. They are the winner of the 2022 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Cy Twombly Award for Poetry, a 2022 recipient of a Tin House Next Book residency, and a recipient of a 2020 James Baldwin Fellowship Award at MacDowell. Their second book, More Than Organs (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2020) received a 2021 Stonewall Honor Book Award by the American Library Association and is a 2021 Lambda Literary Award Finalist. He has received fellowships from VONA Voices, Monson Arts, Macondo, and The Lambda Literary Review. They have featured at The United Nations, The Lincoln Center, The Hemispheric Institute, Symphony Space, Brooklyn Museum, Dodge Poetry, The Poetry Foundation, The School of the Arts Institute, Manchester PRIDE, Princeton, Columbia University, Sesame Street, & more. Their contributions are found in The New York Times, Academy of American Poets, Poetry Magazine, Colorlines, Asian American Literary Review, The Advocate, Al Jazeera, NYLON, Vogue, The Rumpus, The Lily, VIDA Review, and elsewhere. Currently, they serve as a co-curator at The Asian American Writer's Workshop. For more information go online at kaybarrett.net or on social media at @brownroundboi 

 

Alora Young

Alora Young is currently a First Year student at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. Alora is the 2020-2021 Youth Poet Laureate of Nashville, Tennessee and the US Southern Region. Alora has been recognized as a US Presidential Scholar, a Davidson Fellow, a Scholastic Gold Medalist, a Young Arts winner in Spoken Word and was awarded a Princeton Prize in Race Relations a Spring Robinson Literary prize, the Lin Arison excellence in writing award and the International Human Rights Day rising advocate award. Alora was the youngest person ever to sign a book deal with Hogarth Books, when she agreed to give them the rights to publish and distribute her book “Walking Gentry Home”, one day after her 18th birthday.  

Alora has published poems on climate change, education, women’s rights, race relations, poverty and historical events among other topics. She has done countless spoken word events and has been commissioned to create specific works for The United Nations, Mayors, Governors, Congressmen and countless educators.  She has given two TED-X Talks.  Alora’s work has been featured countless times in the local press, in addition to New York Times, Rattle, the Washington Post, Signal Mountain Review, Rigorous Mag and Ice Colony Journal.  Alora has been featured nationally on CBS News, CNN and NBC.

In addition to her spoken word performances, Alora is the lead actress in “The Requiem Boogie“, a feature film that will be released later in 2022. Alora aspires to compose musicals on Broadway and has already written and performed multiple theatre projects locally.

Alora has wanted to be a song writer since the age of 2 and hopes to one day be a supreme court justice and the world’s greatest grandma.

3-Day Agenda


  • In this workshop, we will share more about how we have been able to engage youth through advocacy and community organizing.

  • In this workshop, participants will be given time to reflect on how they feel through the images they create. Canvassing Reality explores specific emotions with music and painting.

  • This workshop will create space for young people to talk and engage about their own oppression and privilege. They will be given concrete examples and tools to navigate the world as a conscious youth.

  • This workshop will include introspective conversations, creative writing, and self-image activities to teach participants about how building a healthy relationship includes confidence, purpose, and self-care.

  • This workshop will offer interactive, fun, and engaging activities that center on loving oneself in all aspects wholistically.

  • This workshop will bring awareness to how our individual experience with violence shapes our perceptions in how we expect violence to unfold.

  • In this workshop, participants will learn the power of manifesting greatness through the power of breath work, yoga poses, and meditation.

  • Be prepared for some laughs! This workshop will be exploring consent and the importance of clear communication...all through unique fist bumps.

  • This workshop will present three focused areas that come from “loss of status”, which includes children who have been separated from families, maternal mental healthcare, and healing.

  • In this workshop, we will discuss romantic relationships, consent, and what that looks like within technology and online platforms.

  • An introduction workshop to gender expression, identity, and sexual orientation. Including conversations about pronouns, health disparities, questioning, and coming out experiences.

  • Reflect on your contributions to a system that is oppressive with an interactive activity to discuss how we can all take steps to unlearn behaviors we have been taught within the system.

  • We will practice how to heal together by sharing our feelings and our experiences on life’s emotional rollercoaster. Bring your headphones and music playlist!

  • Talk to yourself like you are talking to your best friend. Express yourself with paper and pen.

  • We will use poetry to evoke healing, inspire, and encourage girls to love themselves and each other. Expect a safe space, to be heard, and to gain a greater sense of sistahood, empathy, and self-love.

  • Most people may know our glory, but they don’t know our story. In this opening session, we will discuss what makes us smile and the sadness behind our smiles.

  • Join us to explore how the trauma of our ancestors' impact youth lives today and what flexible and survival thinking looks like when healing for yourself.

  • This workshop engages youths in increasing their knowledge around past and present black creations, scholars, activism, and black leadership through a fun and interactive approach.

  • We will discuss experiences and what to do when faced with teen dating violence. The facilitators will help provide information on what healthy relationships should look like.

  • A space for participants to explore and understand the power of their own voices and to talk about important conversations.

  • A safe space for LGBTQIA+ youth, teens, and allies. We will hear and watch BIPOC poets and write our own poetry to share.

  • A space specifically curated during the conference to provide a haven for participants to further process emotions full of soft music, short meditative practices

  • Let's create goals for the future and a vision on how to carry it out!

  • Join us to learn and identify healthy and unhealthy relationships through interactive activities that explore red and green flags.

  • No matter what challenges life brings us, we have to remember to be good to ourselves. Join us to heal through discussions about self-love and positive self-talk. You’re a daisy. You’re enough.

  • Laughter yoga is a unique form of exercise where we laugh without relying on humor, jokes, or comedy! In this workshop, we will use childlike playfulness to boost mood, connect socially, and build community.

  • The iceberg space gets heavy, we will take time to release, meditate, and visualize ourselves overcoming the hardships we discussed in Part 1.

  • This workshop provides awareness on how to love yourself mentally, emotionally, & physically. Activities and group discussion will be included in this safe space where you can open up.

  • Grooming happens quickly and it's important to recognize the signs. We will discuss grooming across lifespan using everyday examples.

  • This workshop will include everything you need to know about starting your own small business. We will discuss how to make products and how to get started!

  • In this workshop, you will be able to find your identity and confidence through dancing. We will provide a brief history of hip-hop along with breakdancing lessons for the youth.

  • An opportunity for Hmoob youth to rise together and build leadership through Hmoob related interactive activities! Cia Siab Rau Peb!

  • In this workshop, we will share ideas and have conversations about the importance of self-care.

  • Are you in a pattern of comfort that you are afraid to step outside of? In this workshop, we will discuss about becoming uncomfortable and how change is good for our future.

  • This workshop will encourage youth to use their voice, passion, and belief to ignite change that reflects what they would want to see in the world.

  • We are dealing with an epidemic of MMIR. Let’s talk history and try to find out why this is an issue and what we can do to make sure that our relatives don’t become statistics.

  • This workshop focuses on the topic of consent and the power of saying no. We will explore boundaries, consent, and how to say “no” will be discussed and explored.

  • Participants will deconstruct the layers of gentrification and the mental health impact that cultural/marginalized communities endure while learning how to apply different forms of self-expressions.

  • This space is reserved for attendees that are ages 25 and under. If you over the age of 25 - please select an ADULT ROUNDTABLE option below.

  • This space is reserved for attendees that are ages 25 and under. If you over the age of 25 - please select an ADULT ROUNDTABLE option below.

  • This space is reserved for attendees that are ages 25 and under. If you over the age of 25 - please select an ADULT ROUNDTABLE option below.

  • This space is reserved for attendees that are ages 25 and under. If you over the age of 25 - please select an ADULT ROUNDTABLE option below.

  • This space is reserved for attendees that are ages 25 and under. If you over the age of 25 - please select an ADULT ROUNDTABLE option below.

  • This space is reserved for attendees that are ages 18 and over. If you are under the age of 18 please select a YOUTH/YOUNG ADULT Option in the above section.

  • This space is reserved for attendees that are ages 18 and over. If you are under the age of 18 please select a YOUTH/YOUNG ADULT Option in the above section.

  • This space is reserved for attendees that are ages 18 and over. If you are under the age of 18 please select a YOUTH/YOUNG ADULT Option in the above section.

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Lodging

RESERVATIONS

We are strongly encouraging attendees to reserve their room as soon as possible. 

NOTE ABOUT LODGING WEBSITE: The Kalahari system is set up to only make one reservation at a time, unfortunately. Even when/if you call in, the call center agent will have to make each reservation individually one at a time, exactly the same method an attendee would online.

Online Reservations - https://book.passkey.com/e/50493856

Call-in Reservations - Dial 877-525-2427 and reserve a room for the 2023 Teen Summit room block when talking to an associate.


ROOM DESCRIPTION - Desert Guest Rooms AKA Double Queen Sofa

  • $189/night
  • Sleeps up to 4 people
  • 2 queen beds, 1 sofa sleeper

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