Dartmouth Events

Abolition or Extinction: Interactive workshops facilitated by Niki Franco
Register for one or both programs at: http://dartgo.org/vis21-abolition

• A Workshop on Austerity and the Prison Industrial Complex
  Monday, February 15 • 5:00 to 6:15 pm EST
• Imagining Futures Rooted in Care for Land, Labor, and People
  Wednesday, February 17 • 5:00 to 6:15 pm EST

Niki Franco (she/they) is a Caribbean abolitionist community organizer, writer, and facilitator of spaces for collective study. Seeking to disrupt the institutionalized bureaucratic frameworks of academia and transactional ways in which relationships exist under capitalism, her work experiments with truth-telling, radical history and thought, and revolutionary imagination. Niki also curates educational and cultural programming that navigates the current urgency on global solidarity, environmental and ancestral preservation, and strategies on building emotional and intellectual capacities to dismantle systems of oppression that inform and deform our current lives. She is the host of "Getting to the Root of It with Venus Roots," a podcast that leans into conversations with artists, theorists, and organizers.

 
Currently based in Miami, Niki serves as the Political Education Director for (F)empower MIA and Civic Engagement Organizer for Power U Center for Social Change. They can be found on Instagram and Twitter @venusroots.
 
 
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Abolition or Extinction is part of Visibility:2021, Dartmouth’s annual student-led campaign to promote gender equity and end gender- and power-based violence. For more information and/or accommodations, visit http://dartgo.org/vis21 or email opal.wag@dartmouth.edu.