The Circle may be over but the workshops are coming up!
It’s time to sign up!!
This has been a time of organizing. We are moving from our deep roots in community to challenge the status quo. We are building systems that work for our people. We are imagining a different way.
It has been a time of reckoning.
Covid-19 has magnified the disparities and injustices of our world. Specifically, the ways that Black, Indigenous, People of Color, chronically ill and disabled people experience higher levels of violence, housing insecurity, and job discrimination. We continue to lose people to white supremacy:
Nina Pop
Breonna Taylor
Ahmaud Arbey
There is a missing and murdered indigenous women’s epidemic.
Capitalism and white supremacy will attempt to make us forget this time and return to a disconnection from each other and the earth.
We cannot and will not return to a normal that devalues people and planet.
“We can impose beauty on our future.” –Lorraine Hansberry
Instead, let’s make a promise, a commitment to honor community. For those of us with privileges it’s a time to risk comfort, #share your check.
Together, we can be a part of community-based solutions, be a part of the radical imagination. As Lorraine Hansberry stated, we can impose beauty on our future.
Join us for a deepened understanding of economic downturns and solidarity economy. What we do now matters.
Interested in joining us in 2020? Fill out our early interest form and be the first to know when registration opens and save $50 off your registration. We’ll make sure you’re the first to know when registration opens for our August 7-9, 2020 ILI in Chicago. Bonus: you’ll receive $50 off when you register!
See the ILI in action
The Interfaith Leadership Institute (ILI) is the largest gathering of students and educators with a commitment to American religious pluralism. Each year, hundreds of people who care about the future of our religiously diverse society converge in Chicago to learn, train, share, and get inspired to bring the movement for interfaith cooperation back to their campuses and communities. Over the course of three days, participants learn to bridge divides and forge friendships across lines of religious and worldview differences. Come to the ILI with the passion to bring people together and leave equipped with the knowledge and skills to make it happen.
Interested in joining us in 2020? Fill out our early interest form and be the first to know when registration opens and save $50 off your registration.
Training Tracks
Introductory and advanced training tracks are designed to support those new to this work by laying the foundation for interfaith leadership, and providing advanced skills in topics ranging from strategic planning to navigating tricky challenges and more.
Plenary sessions will feature conversation with experienced leaders and their stories of engaging religious difference and disagreement in American life. During the Unconference, attendees will have the power to guide these conversations by choosing discussion topics and important questions at the beginning of the gathering.
As we do not want cost to be a hindrance to engaging with interfaith leadership, we have a number of discounts, as well as registration scholarships available.