We are the Leaders We’ve Been Waiting For
This country is in need of bold, values-based change, but to get there, we need you.
Our signature summer series is back with five thought-provoking sessions on the issues we care about. Spend five Wednesday nights with us learning from experts on everything from student protests to gender affirming care, abortion, and reproductive freedom. Let’s build a radical new future – together.
We’ve Got the Power: Expanding the Freedom to Abortion
More than two years have passed since the disastrous Dobbs decision, which overturned the constitutional right to abortion and undermined abortion access for millions of pregnant people across the country. Roe was always the floor, and all across the country, women and femmes are organizing powerfully to ensure reproductive freedom for all, beyond the political imagination of generations past. Join us for this 60-minute virtual session, the first of the 2024 Majority Leaders Speaker Series, as we talk about all things abortion with Oriaku Njoku, the executive director of the National Network of Abortion Funds, Paula Ávila-Guillen from the Women’s Equality Center and Blair Imani, author, educator, and influencer.
“Stop believing this idea that the courts are going to save us. I am not saying that we need to give up on that…but I also believe in the power of a small communities and small organizers.”
We Will Be Free: Palestine and Student Protests
Our country has a strong history of student activism leading social movements that we all collectively benefit from today, and current student movements are no different. We’re proud to host several student leaders working to end the unjust conditions experienced by Palestinians and funded by our tax dollars. At Supermajority Ed Fund, we see what is happening to all Palestinians—but especially what is happening to pregnant people in Gaza—to be a gender justice issue. Join us and learn from the work being led by young people at universities to disclose and divest, end the violence, and educate the broader public about our collective stake in supporting the freedom of the Palestinian people.
“If we really want revolution, it takes not just only the Palestinians, the Arabs, the Muslims. It’s all people, because it’s the same system of repression that oppresses us all…and we’re all fighting against the same things.”
We Need a Living Wage, Not Corporate Greed
Without economic stability, the Majority Rules cannot be real, and without fair wages and affordable, quality housing, our communities will never have economic stability. Join Philadelphia Minority Leader and Councilmember Kendra Brooks and Kim Kelly, an independent labor journalist and author based in Philadelphia, as they talk about the policy reforms and people’s movements driving forward a reality where families, not corporate profit margins, are prioritized.
“We need to make sure that we’re willing and stepping up to the plate to protect our service workers, because if we don’t protect the least [paid] of us, all of us are in jeopardy.”
Building Trans Futures, Centering Trans Safety and Joy
Extreme legislation and threats of violence have been the dominant narrative in the story of trans people and trans youth especially, but this session will focus us collectively toward a future tense, where trans and gender-nonconforming people have all the things they need to thrive including healthcare, housing, steady employment, dignity, and safety. Join us in conversation with the executive director of Trans Lifeline, kai alviar horton; Andrea Segovia, senior policy and field director of Transgender Education Network; and Black, Trans, and HIV community advocate and leader Jasmine McKenzie.
“In order for us to be free we need to have spaces that allow our grief and our joy to coexist because ultimately they are interconnected and interdependent on each other.”
The Youth Represents Us: The Future of Politics
Without the fifth Majority Rule, Our Government Represents Us, the other four might not be possible. Close out the 2024 Majority Leaders Speaker Series with a session about the young people getting themselves on the ballot and into elected office, the struggles they’ve faced as they’ve worked to get a seat at the table, and the efforts they’re making to ensure that progress continues. Join us in conversation with Athena Salman of Arizona, Tennessee State Sen. London Lamar, Chicago Alderperson Jesse Fuentes, and Detroit City Council President Hon. Mary Sheffield.
“You can become angry enough to give up and lose hope or you can become angry enough to become the legislator your community needs.”
