Join the movement.

Day 1: Friday, September 19

Community Party at Understory Oakland

📅 Date: Friday, September 19th, 2025
⏰ Time: 6:30-10PM
📍 Location: Understory Oakland

3340 International Blvd. Oakland, CA 94601

This Mix & Mingle is a warm, vibrant gathering to kick off Freedom Community Clinic’s Healing to the People Summit Convening. Creating an open, joyful space for summit attendees and the broader public to connect, build community, and celebrate. Music, movement, good food, meaningful conversation, and shared intentions for the weekend ahead.

🎶DJ K-La V (@k.la.v), from the San Francisco Bay Area, has been a respected DJ for over 15 years. From a young age, she has been inspired by unique rhythms and sounds of many genres. K-la V’s style has an international flare with House music, Afro-Caribbean Beats among her go-to favorite genres to DJ and dance to. However, K-la V plays it all from Hip-Hop, Pop, Kizomba, Amapiano, to funky-soul-jazz tunes, and more, as long as good vibes are filling the room

🎶 3LISE (@for3lise) is an interdisciplinary artist weaving soul, softness, and raw intention into sound. Blending ethereal R&B, experimental pop, and grounded lyricism, she creates immersive experiences that move the body and spirit. Her work is ritual, rooted in sound healing, sensuality, and creative freedom—inviting listeners into deeper feeling, fuller breath, and unapologetic self-expression

Day 2: Saturday, September 20 Conference and Community Celebration Dinner

📅 Date: Saturday, September 20th, 2025
🕘 Time: 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM (conference), 7:30PM-10PM (community dinner)
📍 Location: Ed Roberts Campus (Day) + Understory (Evening)

9 AM – Arrival & Breakfast 

9:35-10:15 AM – Opening Ceremony

10:15–11:15 AM – Morning Panel Discussion: “From Oakland to the World: Bringing Hope and Healing during time of Political Uncertainty”

  • Diana Ramos, MD, MPH, MBA - California Surgeon General

  • Daniela Medina, MSW - Deputy Chief of Direct Practice, City of Oakland Department of Violence Prevention

  • Bernadette Lim, MD, MS - Founder and Executive Director of Freedom Community Clinic

11:30 AM–12:15PM – First Round of Workshops

12:30 PM–1:15 PM – Second Round of Workshops

1:15–2:15 PM – Marketplace & Lunch Roundtables

  • Elder Lunch Roundtable

    • Dr. Tolbert Small - Doctor of the Black Panther Party

    • Liza Rankow, PhD - Founder of One Life Institute

2:30–3:30 PM – Putting Ideas Into Action Roundtables: Bringing Justice to our Communities:

  • Philanthropy, Academia, Research

    • La Roux Pendleton, MPH, Bay Area Program Officer, Stupski Foundation

    • Monica Hahn, MD, MPH, MS - Vice Chair of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at UCSF Department of Family and Community Mediince

    • Ruben Canedo - Director of Strategy Equity Initiatives, UC Berkeley

  • Land-Based Healing

    • Maya Blow, Founder of Soul Flower Farm

    • Sophie Willmore, Co-Executive Director of Feed Black Futures

    • Kathryn Hart, Volunteer Coordinator Justice

    • Sol Mercado, Reentry Coordinator, Planting Justice

  • Creative Arts

    • Jenabi Pareja, Co-Founder of Understory Oakland

    • Viviana Rodriguez-Smith, Founder of E14 Gallery

    • B Dukes, Creative Director of Freedom Community Clinic and Collective Member of 7000COILS

    • Amber Julian, Founder of Activation Arts Productions / Adjunct Professor, University of San Francisco

  • Community Organizing

    • Michelle Monterrosa, Co-Founder of The Sean Monterrosa Project

    • Ashley Monterrosa, Co-Founder of The Sean Monterrosa Project

    • Tiffany Lopez, Director of Community Collaborations at Freedom Community Clinic

    • Andrew, TRYBE Oakland

3:30–4:30 PM – Closing Ceremony

6:30–9:30 PM – Community Dinner & Evening Gathering at Understory Oakland

Day 3: Sunday, September 21 Community Adventure Day

Morning Community Adventures

  • FCC Ancestral Healing Farm (9:30-11:30AM)

    • Join us for an immersive experience honoring the changing season. We’ll taste seasonal honeys, make a  Fall Equinox Bee Altar, and deepen our connection to pollinators, plants, and land. Come with curiosity, an open heart, and love for all things bee-kind.

Afternoon Community Adventures

  • 67 Suenos Mural tour (11A-12PM)

    • Walking tour of Oakland highlighting murals created by youth of 67 Sueños

    • 67 Sueños is an Oakland-based youth organizing program with political education, ARTivism, and trauma-healing work at its center. 67 Sueños uses art in various forms to educate and engage youth, support healing and freedom of expression, and serve as a tool of resistance. Our ARTivism sheds light on our many struggles, cultivating local and international solidarity and uplifting  empowerment for future generations.

  • Women of the Black Panther Party Mural Tour (11AM-12:30PM or 1-2:30PM)

    • Join us for a powerful guided tour of the Women of the Black Panther Party Mural and Mini Museum in West Oakland. We’ll begin outside with the striking house murals, where you’ll learn about the origins of the project, the history and impact of the Black Panther Party, and the stories of the women honored on the mural. The tour includes insight into the artist’s vision, the legacy of activism, and the rich cultural history of West Oakland’s Black communities. Afterward, we’ll rotate small groups into the Mini Museum for a deeper dive, while others explore nearby landmarks like the Huey P. Newton bust, additional murals, the original BPP Headquarters on Peralta, and nearby Black-owned businesses.

  • Community Medicine-Making at FCC Telegraph Apothecary (2-4PM)

    • Step into a sacred, plant-centered space to reconnect with ancestral ways of healing. This intimate workshop, led by FCC’s Herbalist in Residence, invites participants to engage in hands-on herbal medicine-making, explore the healing properties of teas, tinctures, and tonics, and engage in dialogue around decolonizing medicine.Together, we’ll reflect on the power of traditional plant knowledge, reclaim practices rooted in lineage and care, and deepen our relationship with herbs as teachers, healers, and kin.

  • Cultural Food Making (Bilingual - Spanish) at FCC Fruitvale Healing Center (2-4PM)

    • Come explore the rich histories, healing uses, and ancestral meanings of common kitchen spices like cumin, cinnamon, turmeric, and cloves. Participants will get to smell, taste, and touch spices while learning how they’re used in cultural food practices and remedies across the world. Together, we’ll make a simple spice blend, share stories connected to food, family, and home — and enjoy tasting a surprise homemade dish that highlights the spices we explore!

  • Movement at Destiny Arts Center with Amber Julian (5-6PM)

    • Move Through, Move With is a movement workshop designed to honor the elements, ancestors, and expansive nature. Specifically created for Black, Brown, Indigenous, and immigrant attendees, this space invites participants to explore, play, deepen, and connect with themselves, each other, and the rich lineages they carry. Through embodied practices rooted in ancestral movement, spirituality, and communal creation, we will deepen our understanding of personal and collective transformation—connecting us to the depths within and the vastness beyond.