We Rise has been partnering with Mycelium Youth Network for over a year, and together, we are so excited to share this two-part podcast series with you. Here is the second of two keynote speeches from MYN's Autumn 2020 conference entitled Apocalyptic Resilience: An Afro-Indigenous Futuristic Adventure. This episode features the brilliant organizer, researcher, & AfroFuturist Black feminist nerd Dominique Thomas speaking on "AfroFuturism, Organizing + Earthseed: Journey to Collective Liberation" (bio below).

Mycelium Youth Network prepares young people for climate change, using a combination of our ancestral knowledge and practices, and the best of science technology engineering arts and math (STEAM) thinking. For the past year We Rise, MYN, and Bioneers have been collaborating to bring you an amazing project to support young people telling their stories of climate resilience and environmental justice. You can learn more and support the work by going to MyceliumYouthNetwork.org. Feel free to follow @MyceliumYouthNetwork on Facebook & Instagram and @MyceliumYouth on Twitter for more updates.

About Dominique Thomas:
Dominique is a grassroots organizer, researcher, Afrofuturist Black feminist nerd based in Harlem, New York, who believes relationships are essential to successful base-building and being strategic requires organizing from the intersections of climate and other systems of oppression. She launched The Climate League in 2020, a BIPOC training program to learn organizing and campaigning skills, focusing on racial justice in the climate movement. Her main objective in this work is to uplift the labor and stories of those who have been erased from the climate movement, while creating avenues for engagement utilizing an organizing orientation where communities can empower themselves. Read more here: https://womensearthalliance.org/meet-the-leaders-of-the-2020-us-accelerator/dominique-thomas/

Gigantic shout out to Indigo Mateo, who both introduced Dominique Thomas in this keynote AND shared her gorgeous music with us for this podcast. The track is titled "Just On Time." For more, please check out IndigoMateo.com. Thank you Indigo!