9th Annual

We the Future Social Justice Conference 2026

Friday April 24th | 9:00am-3:00pm

Hosted by Santa Rosa Junior College (SRJC) and North Bay Organizing Project (NBOP)

In a moment marked by ongoing harm, uncertainty, and systems that fail to support communities, joy is a radical and necessary practice. Joy is not a retreat from struggle; it is how we sustain ourselves, remember our humanity, and imagine futures beyond what we’ve inherited.

At the same time, resistance continues to shape our daily lives. Students, organizers, and community members resist through creativity, organizing, healing, storytelling, mutual aid, cultural reclamation, and collective care. Resistance is the daily practice of affirming our right to exist, learn, and dream without harm.

This year’s conference centers the truth that joy and resistance are not opposites — they are intertwined liberatory practices. Joy fuels resistance. Resistance protects the conditions for joy. Together, they form the heartbeat of collective liberation.

Participants will explore this theme through three pathways:

Educate — Learning and unlearning how systems shape our lives while deepening critical consciousness through community-centered, liberatory frameworks.

Activate — Skill-building for sustainable justice work, organizing, healing justice, mutual aid, policy engagement, and collective care. 

Create — Art, storytelling, movement, and cultural expression as vital forms of joy, resistance, and social transformation. 

We the Future 2026 calls us to gather, learn, heal, create, and act together — rooting in joy, practicing resistance, and shaping liberatory futures in community.

We are excited to share the selected Key Note Speaker is Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez. Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodriguez is a writer, organizer, and public intellectual whose work centers the lived experiences of undocumented formerly undocumented Latine communities. Through powerful storytelling and incisive cultural critique, she challenges dominant narratives about immigration, belonging, and identity in the United States.