Weaving Power: Cross-Generational Organizing for a Multiracial Future
October 29, 2026
The theme for the Alliance's 2026 Online Convening, "Weaving Power," is centered on taking an ecosystem view of Anti-Racist Organizing in the US and highlighting our interdependence and collective power.
With this online convening, the Alliance itself is leaning into the role of Movement Weaver(as defined by Deepa Iyer's in her Social Change Map): "[Weavers] see the through-lines of connectivity between people, places, organizations, ideas, and movements."
This online convening is for folks who are ready to lean in and actively engage. It will be an active event where you will be sharing and receiving wisdom from others in the anti-racist organizing space.
More details are forthcoming, but if we've already piqued your interest, please click the button below!
Upcoming Programming
Wednesday September 16
7 – 8:30 PM EDT • 4 – 5:30 PT
Creating a Culture of Repair
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Who We Are For
Is this space for you?
The work of building an anti-racist, multiracial future is not a solo journey, and no single individual or organization can do it all. The Alliance is part of a vibrant, interconnected ecosystem of organizers, healers, storytellers, disruptors, and builders working toward collective liberation.
If you are already active in this ecosystem, you know how beautiful, and how incredibly exhausting, this path can be. You understand systemic racism, and you are deeply committed to a multiracial future. But you’ve also realized that knowing the theory is very different from navigating the day-to-day human relationships that keep a movement alive.
The Alliance is a supportive space for practitioners, community members, and leaders who are looking for a deeper kind of partnership:
You are navigating the real-world friction of cross-racial relationships.
You don’t need just another lecture. You also want an honest space to process what happens when well-intentioned people bring different needs, expectations, and personal histories to the same organizing table.
You want to turn "head work" into “heart work” and ultimately sustainable "foot work."
You are looking for practical, everyday practices that help you share power equitably, handle disagreements with grace, while staying committed to the active work of creating a multiracial future without burning out.
You are searching for a community where deep love and tangible movement toward structural justice are honored.
You know we cannot build a true community on polite niceties alone. You want to learn how to cultivate authentic, caring relationships while holding the firm boundaries of accountability and repair required to make those relationships last.
Whether you are trying to transform your local neighborhood, your faith group, your school, or your workplace, we are here to help you stay in the work. You don’t have to carry the weight of building a liberated future alone.
Who We Are
The Alliance for a Multiracial Society is a space dedicated to the practical, daily practice of anti-racism in our relationships, our organizations, and our neighborhoods. We believe that building a truly multiracial society requires moving past intellectual debate and into active, collaborative action.
As part of a broader social change ecosystem, we bring together people playing many different movement roles to share power equitably and build collective power.
Through our workshops, virtual convenings, and shared community spaces, we are co-creating a hands-on environment where practitioners can learn how to sustain multiracial alliances and navigate real-world challenges together.
Our new era is built on a proud, thirty-year foundation. In 1995, we established the Center for the Study of White American Culture (CSWAC). Led by the pioneering work of our founders, Dr. Charley Flint and Jeff Hitchcock, CSWAC became a trusted national voice on how white American culture shapes institutional power and systemic racism.
CSWAC provided a critical space for educators, activists, leaders, and community members who sought deep analytical tools to decenter whiteness. Our new era honors this history because we cannot build a multiracial future without the intellectual clarity and honest self-reflection that CSWAC championed for three decades.
Our transition to the Alliance is the natural next step in this ongoing work. Decentering whiteness has cleared a necessary path, and we are now moving past a primary focus on head work. In this new era, we are primarily focused on centering multiracialism. We seek to actively build a society where “whiteness is no longer considered “the norm”. Instead we are building a future where our shared humanity is centered, and where equitable relationships, collaborative structures, and collective power are the core pillars.
This practice is grounded in our founders' Love and Justice framework, which directly names the often unnamed friction present in cross-racial organizing. We recognize that white participants often enter cross-racial spaces seeking relational connection and affirmation, while people of color are seeking structural accountability and the repair of systemic harm. By explicitly naming these competing needs and bringing them to the table, we are positioned to move past polite impasses into the honest heartwork (and foot work) required for the anti-racist, multiracial future we seek to build together.
The Work We Do
Living out our anti-racist values in our daily lives is a deeply human, relational process. We cannot do this work in isolation, and we cannot do it through study alone. Our programs are designed to be shared practice spaces where we can come together as a community, learn from our mistakes, share power in real, tangible ways, and grapple with how to remain in the principled struggle.
Through our three core program areas, we offer supportive spaces to practice this work over the long haul. Whether we are connecting in mutual support on our online community network, learning together in our interactive workshops and trainings, or gathering the broader antiracist, multiracial organizing ecosystem at our annual convening, we are here to be in that principled struggle alongside you. The Alliance is a space where we turn our individual commitments into collective movement.
Program Descriptions
Anti-Racist Community Network (ARCN)
Our digital home for ongoing relationship-building and peer-to-peer support. Our virtual gatherings are interactive practice spaces where organizers and community members can move away from just consuming passive lectures and toward grappling with real-world challenges together. They are typically held twice a month. Our online community platform keeps us connected between “practice” sessions, offering a shared space to exchange tools and access on-demand resources that sustain your daily anti-racist organizing work.
Workshops & Trainings
Interactive, skill-building spaces designed to equip you with the practical tools needed to organize for systemic change.
Our workshops and trainings focus on real-world application, helping you navigate the messy, daily realities of anti-racist, multiracial organizing and institutional transformation. Together, we practice applying core frameworks to our communities, our relationships, our families, and our workplaces.
Our work in this space is anchored in the Love and Justice framework developed by Alliance founders Dr. Charley Flint and Jeff Hitchcock.
Annual Virtual Convening
Our annual, virtual gathering is designed to foster multigenerational solidarity and collective power across the anti-racist, multiracial organizing ecosystem.
Stepping away from traditional conference models, this program serves to lean into our role as a Movement Weaver. Utilizing Deepa Iyer’s Social Change Ecosystem framework, we bring together organizers, healers, disruptors, and builders across generations to map our collective strengths and navigate the real-world tensions of our work.
This interactive space is designed to intentionally bring younger organizing voices into deep dialogue and right relationship with seasoned movement elders. By practicing staying in principled struggle with one another across generations, we ensure our collective movement is both historically grounded and forward-looking. This gathering serves as our launchpad, turning shared analysis and civic action into a sustainable community of year-round support.