41st Annual Empowering Womxn of Color Conference
Saturday, March 14, 2026, 09:00 -
Saturday, March 14, 2026, 17:00
Event duration 8 hours
Financial Assistance:
USD 16.00
Free:
USD 0.00
General Admission:
USD 26.00
About 41st Annual Empowering Womxn of Color Conference
The 41st Annual Empowering Womxn of Color Conference will be held on March 14, 2026. Join us to celebrate each other and community!
In this 41st Annual EWOCC, we set out to create a space to celebrate the radical, unyielding, and deeply intentional love that womxn of color embody as we build, resist, heal, and transform. We will reflect on the importance of community building, solidarity, and collective power while embracing self-care and love. We will be featuring workshop presenters, a Q&A panelist session, as well as a catered lunch and light refreshments!
$1 of each ticket sale will go towards the payment of our Shuumi Land Tax. The Shuumi Land Tax is a voluntary annual contribution that non-Indigenous people living on the Confederated Villages of Lisjan’s territory can make to support the critical work of the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust.
Conference Agenda:
9:00AM Check-in + Breakfast + Entertainment
10:00AM Welcome + Opening Circle
11:00AM Morning Workshops
12:30PM Panel Session + Vendor Fair + Lunch
3:00PM Afternoon Workshops
4:30PM Closing + Entertainment
The 2026 conference artwork is designed by Soni Lopez-Chavez. Born in Cuitzeo de Abasolo in the state of Guanajuato, Mexico, Soni pulls from her Chichimeca heritage and lived experience as a first-generation immigrant to empower historically marginalized communities. Soni’s art covers a wide variety of different topics and causes. A representation of her Indigenous ancestry, her life lived back and forth between two nations.
Events Schedule
Saturday, March 14, 2026, 09:00
Saturday, March 14, 2026, 17:00
Event Categories
Educational Events
Cultural Celebrations
Empowering Womxn of Color Conference
https://ewocc-berkeley.com/
The Empowering Womxn of Color Conference (EWOCC) is recognized to be one of the longest-running conferences in the nation that addresses the needs and concerns of womxn* of color. The conference has brought together cutting-edge womxn of color activists such as Angela Davis, Elaine Brown, Cherrie Moraga, Gina Palcado and Chrystos with Bay Area community leaders and academics (especially students) to discuss and strategize ways of impacting the current issues facing womxn of color. EWOCC was founded in 1985 by a group of undergraduate students as their semester project for a DE-Cal (Democratic Education at Cal) class. The project, entitled “Women of Color in the United States,” received an overwhelmingly positive response, and students decided to organize another event with the help of the Graduate Assembly (GA), Berkeley’s graduate student government. EWOCC was one of the first conferences to present womxn of color with an opportunity to address the racial, class, and gender issues facing Indigenous, African American, Asian American, and Chicanx/Latinx womxn. EWOCC uses womxn to describe all who experience life through the lens of womxn in body, spirit, identity past, present, future and fluid.