Monthly on Wednesdays from 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Join us each month for fellowship with WBU’s grassroots community as we form connections and hold space for rest, joy, and renewal.

November’s Women’s Circle will feature a special session on "Reclaiming Ancestral Legacy" facilitated by Iya Èsùbíyí (Ms. Camacho), a criminologist, Reentry Specialist, published researcher, Harm Reduction Advocate, Community Organizer, Restorative Justice Advocate and Street ethnographer with 15 years experience recruiting hard to reach populations confidentially and anonymously. Register to attend here.

Join Aubin Pictures and Women Building Up for a special screening of the new documentary Paint Me a Road Out of Here, centered on Faith Ringgold’s artwork For the Women’s House. Stay for a talk back featuring artist Mary Enoch Baxter, filmmaker Catherine Gund, and community activist Leah Faria.

To learn more about the film and to register to attend, please visit this link.

Join us for the next Global Capitalism lecture with Professor Richard D. Wolff and Special Guest Speaker Andrea James on Wednesday, November 12. Please register to attend here.

Presented by acclaimed economist Professor Richard D. Wolff, Global Capitalism is a bi-monthly lecture series exploring global affairs, economics, and geopolitics. Professor Wolff will present a discussion on the impact of President Trump’s economic policies and how they are an attack on working people.

Richard D. Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he taught economics from 1973 to 2008. He is currently a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School University, New York City. Earlier he taught economics at Yale University (1967-1969) and at the City College of the City University of New York (1969-1973). In 1994, he was a Visiting Professor of Economics at the University of Paris (France), I (Sorbonne). Prof Wolff is the co-founder of Democracy at Work and host of their nationally syndicated show Economic Update.

Andrea James, JD. is the Founder and Executive Director of The National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls, Founder of Families for Justice as Healing, author of Upper Bunkies Unite: And Other Thoughts on the Politics of Mass Incarceration, a Soros Justice Fellow and recipient of the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award.

As a former criminal defense attorney and a formerly incarcerated woman, Andrea shares her personal and professional experiences to raise awareness of the effects of incarcerating women on themselves, their children and communities. Her work is focused on ending incarceration of women and girls and contributing to the shift from a criminal legal system focused on police and prisons, to a system led by directly affected people from within their neighborhoods and based on individual and community accountability.

Join us at Women Building Up for a special conversation with author Susan McPherson. In The Lost Art of Connecting: The Gather, Ask, Do Method for Building Meaningful Business Relationships, serial connector and communications expert Susan McPherson argues that we need to foster value-based connections by going back to basics. Technology she says, is a tool, not a means to an end. To forge lasting relationships, we need to learn to be more intentional and authentic, and reconnect with people as human beings—especially now as we emerge from an extended period of forced isolation, of living and working alone.

Register here to attend.