2026 Workshops

Download our WORKSHOP DESCRIPTIONS for more information on each workshop being offered at our event.

  1. Date/Time: 1/19 Mon 9:30- 10:45

    • Workshop Title: Surveillance Under Authoritarianism: From COINTELPRO to NSPM -7

    • Presenter(s): Whose Streets? Our Streets! And MLK Transportation Justice

  2. Date/Time: 1/19 Mon 9:30- 10:45

    • Workshop Title: BIPOC Youth Leadership, Anti-Racism, Education

    • Presenter(s): WA NAACP Youth Council with Jon Greenberg Educator and Youth Coordinator

  3. Date/Time: 1/19 Mon 9:30- 10:45

    • Workshop Title: Resisting Authoritarianism, Community Building

    • Presenter(s): Ricardo Ortega, Executive Director, LELO/A Legacy of Equality Leadership and Organizing Cindy Domingo, Standing for Democracy and Free Washington Project Coordinating Council, Jewish Coalition for Immigrant Justice, Troublemakers, Veterans for Peace, Indivisible, Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, Asian American Immigrant Rights, Front and Centered, Puget Sound Advocates for Retirement Action

  4. Date/Time: 1/19 Mon 9:30- 10:45

    • Workshop Title: Why We Can't Wait: MLK Reparations Dream Lab

    • Presenter(s): Seattle/King County African American Reparations Committee Davida Ingram, Jerrell Davis, Kevin Allen

  5. Date/Time: 1/19 Mon 9:30- 10:45

    • Workshop Title: Anti-Monopoly Discotech (Discovering Technology)

    • Presenter(s): Resist Tech Monopolies (RTM)

  6. Date/Time: 1/19 Mon 9:30- 10:45

    • Workshop Title: Mobilize Workers Untapped Power to Stop Trump: Lessons from the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Strike and Beyond

    • Presenter(s): A Philip Randolph Institute, Seattle Chapter, Organized Workers for Labor Solidarity will include Gabriel Prawl, President of A. Philip Randolph Institute, Seattle Chapter; Ahmed Mumin, Executive Director of the Seattle Rideshare Drivers Association; Linda Averill, shop steward with Amalgamated Transit Union, Local 587and labor journalist; a Latino union leader and activist for immigrant and labor rights

  7. Date/Time: 1/19 Mon 9:30- 10:45

    • Workshop Title: Know Your Rights Workshop with ACLUWA and Lavendar Rights Project (LRP)

    • Presenter(s): Sabrina Rodriguez, Moni Tep (LRP)

  8. Date/Time: 1/19 Mon 9:30- 10:45

    • Workshop Title: Rooted in Resistance: Black Liberation, Healing & Community Defense

    • Presenter(s): Ernest Walker Program Director, People of Color Against AIDS Network POCAAN

  9. Date/Time: 1/19 Mon 9:30- 10:45

    • Workshop Title: Crib to College Coalition

    • Presenter(s): AFT Washington Richard Burton State Affiliate Political Organizer, Washington Alex Galeana of the Children’s Campaign Fund Julianna Dauble of the Renton Education Association and MLK Labor Mei'lani Eyre of AFT Seattle local 1789

  10. Date/Time: 1/19 Mon 9:30- 10:45

    • Workshop Title: Know Your Civil Rights-What Are My Rights?

    • Presenter(s): John Yasutake, Management Support Consultants

  11. Date/Time: 1/19 Mon 9:30- 10:45

    • Workshop Title: Healthy Smart Homes-WA State Covenant Homeownership Program

    • Presenter(s): Cali Slair PhD, Outreach Project Director, Healthy Smart Homes, Tracy Brown, Founder

  12. Date/Time: 1/19 Mon 9:30- 10:45

    • Workshop Title: ICE-Free Zone in the CID x South End

    • Presenter(s): JM Wong Puget Sound Sage

Workshop Locations Notice:
Classroom numbers for workshops will not be listed online. On MLK Day, please stop by the Info Desk located near the Garfield High School Main Office to receive a map with directions to your respective workshop.