Saturday November 5, 2022
9:00AM - 4:30PM

ABOUT THE EVENT

Please bring your whole family and join your neighbors for a day of African-centered advocacy & community building to make life better for all Alexandria children & families!

This is a community-led gathering to share ideas about what matters to us when it comes to our children, families, and neighborhoods thriving. Participants will be collaborating and problem solving in our eight community advocacy breakout groups (1) Pedestrian Safety [MOBILITY] (2) Sanitation, Health, and Community Upkeep, (3) Law Enforcement and Police Protection, (4) Recreation, (5) City Employment [WORK], (6) Housing, (7) Communication and (8) Education based on the civil rights areas included in the May 1968 Concerned Citizen's Network letter to the Alexandria City Council. ​

​As is PLTI tradition, the Alexandria People's Assembly will include a concurrent Children's Assembly, and introduce a Youth Assembly for older children. Our original CLTI facilitators Ms. Suzette Adams and Mrs. Kemba Cansler will lead our Children's Assembly. Mr. Marcus Sankofa Nicks, a historian, researcher, and veteran educator from Howard County MD Public Schools will lead our Youth Assembly. ​

Alexandria People’s Assembly Hosts:
PLTI of Alexandria Alumni Racial Justice Fellows:
Angelia Hill | Bill Campbell | Bill Cleveland
Jenny Gutierrez | Jennifer Murphy 
​Salma Ahamed | Sahr Pombor | ​Victoria Morgan 
​Zion Abebe | Zohreh Khoshnamak
​Adrienne Fikes, PLTI Executive Director 

FEATURED PRESENTERS

We are excited to welcome Dr. Linda James Myers, an internationally recognized thought leader, author, and scholar to share her theory/practice of Optimal Psychology aka Optimal Conceptual Theory with our assembly. Dr. Myers is Professor Emerita, the College of Arts and Sciences Department of African American and African Studies, and the College of Medicine Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health at The Ohio State University. Dr. Myers’ work with the Alexandria People’s Assembly is supported by the Minority Behavioral Health Group in Akron, OH. 
Dr. Kweli Zukeri a graduate of Howard University School of Psychology and facilitator with IKG Cultural Resource Center will speak to us about African architecture and symbolism in Alexandria, and the design of Washington DC as our nation's capital.
​Adrienne Fikes, PLTI executive director will invite you to begin the #16Greats family history and genealogy project that was the focus of her TEDxOronocoBayPark talk in 2019. 
Free registration is open for the Alexandria People’s Assembly to all community members who are willing and able to actively participate for the entire day.
THANK YOU... for the generous support of the Horning Foundation, Black Women’s Roundtable Virginia, and Meyer Foundation. Free registration is open for the Alexandria People’s Assembly to all community members who are willing and able to actively participate for the entire day. 
 
After your registration is confirmed, we will ask you to immediately complete two pre-event questionnaires.