Join Black Educational Workshops in California providing educational opportunities for your community. These events offer learning experiences that honor cultural heritage while helping members of the Black community develop new skills and knowledge.
Workshops that expose and provide access to the world of STEAM via keynote speakers, panel discussions and college readiness workshops.
Sacred S.I.S.T.A.H.S. (Sisters In Solidarity Teaching And Healing our Spirits) Inc., is a 501(C)(3) nonprofit educational enrichment and mentoring organization for women and children of the Inland Empire. Its mission is to empower, serve, and improve the overall health and well-being of African American women and children.
The Sacred Sistahs STEAM conference is offered each spring to usher curious and purposeful teen girls into collegiate environments for a day of lectures and workshops that offer exposure, revelation and access to the world of STEAM, relevant college and career paths, and the women involved in it. And this year, 2026, we will have done this for 14 years!
On April 18, 2026, at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, Sacred Sistahs will hold its 14th Annual STEAM Conference themed STEAMing the Future: Exploring AI, Healthcare, and Innovation. The 2026 conference will host featured speakers, workshops, and a college panel for parents.
The conference provides opportunities for peer support and engagement, ideas and road maps for academic success, in addition to mentor development.
Research has demonstrated that even though girls perform as well as boys in science and math, there is a marked loss in interest in STEM areas that occurs in middle school. Moreover, girls’ attitudes about careers in math and science affect their persistence and involvement in advanced coursework during their high school years. Our conferences aim to show young teen girls their “possibilities” by introducing them to and giving them access to dialogue with brilliant and successful professional women eager to share their stories of triumph and persistence.
We have had the good fortune to partner with hosts, Harvey Mudd College and Western University, to present years of enriching presentations by STEM industry, academics and practitioners that span the gamut, sharing their expertise in space exploration, medicine, energy and chemical engineering, as well as Mathematics and Statistics.
It has been said that the strength of the STEM workforce is viewed as an indicator of a nation’s ability to sustain itself. As teen girls, you hold the future of our world in your heads and hands. It is our vision that one day you will cultivate the S.E.S.H.A.T. mathematical genius within you, carrying forth a legacy of excellence and leadership in math, science, and related disciplines.
We look forward to seeing you at this year's Sacred S.I.S.T.A.H.S. conference.
Saturday, 18, 08.30 -
Saturday, 18, 14.00
Claremont,
CA
_$25
Identity, Leadership & AI: Your Authentic Power Toolkit
Stop Code-Switching. Start Leading Like YOU.
YOU'RE EXHAUSTED, AREN'T YOU?
Exhausted from switching up your tone in meetings. Tired of dimming your light to make others comfortable. Drained from second-guessing whether you "sound professional enough" or if you're "doing leadership right."
Here's the truth nobody's saying out loud: The pain of performing is killing your power.
Every day you code-switch is another day your authentic leadership stays hidden. Another day you're leading from someone else's playbook instead of your own.
What if you could just... stop?
THIS CONFERENCE IS YOUR PERMISSION SLIP
You've been waiting for someone to tell you it's okay to:
Ask for help without feeling weak
Lead your way, not their way
Show up as yourself unapologetically
Use your voice without translation
Consider this your official permission.
You don't have to know everything. You don't have to have it all figured out. You don't have to prove you belong.
You already do.
WHO YOU'RE BECOMING (NOT JUST WHAT YOU'RE LEARNING)
This isn't about tactics. It's about transformation.
You're not here to collect another certificate. You're here to step into the leader you've always been the one who's been waiting for permission to emerge.
By the end of this conference, you will BE: ✓ A leader who trusts her own voice
✓ Someone who leads without compromising authenticity
✓ A trailblazer who uses AI as liberation, not replacement
✓ A woman who doesn't code-switch she code-BREAKS
This is about identity, not just outcomes.
Friday, 06, 18.00 -
Friday, 06, 20.30
La Mesa,
CA
_$25
Why is Black students' math literacy worse than other students?
Black Kids Love Math Addresses this head-on.
In 2023, we launched FACTS BET ON ME, featuring Black math experts who came and spoke about what they thought the issues were. Covering the basis of ALL students, the experts spoke about math educators taking the disparity of Black math education personally, and about the fact that black children have not moved off the bottom. Following this data from our first conference, we decided we couldn’t allow our discussions to become general. We didn't want it to be a kumbaya moment where people came in a room and felt good about talking about black children in math, when it's so bad.
When you look at it as a whole, at some point, you've got to say it has to do with what goes on in every classroom. You can't keep saying they're poor, or that they come from dysfunctional families, or that they’re living in poverty.
At some point, you've got to do the MATH.
Everyone was seeing it as black kids don't love math, don't do math, can't do math.
Black kids DO love math, but nobody was seeing that. So we flipped the script and evolved into Black Kids Love Math.
Monday, 15, 08.00 -
Tuesday, 30, 16.00
Los Angeles,
CA
_$25
It's our Annual Black Family Reunion Reunion a chance to bring the whole Family, music, many Resources
Founded in 1986 by civil rights icon Dr. Dorothy I. Height, then-president of NCNW.
Created as a direct response to negative portrayals of Black families in media, particularly the 1986 PBS documentary The Vanishing Family: Crisis in Black America, which painted a bleak and narrow picture of Black family life.
Dr. Height and NCNW sought to reclaim the narrative by showcasing the resilience, love, and cultural richness of Black families.
Saturday, 25, 10.00 -
Saturday, 25, 17.00
Los Angeles,
CA
_$25
This workshop is designed for community leaders like you who are committed to advancing solutions rooted in beauty and environmental justice
The workshop will cover…
The health risks associated with skin lightening products
The social and cultural impacts of colorism
Safe, empowering, and culturally grounded alternatives
Strategies for community education and outreach
Participants who complete this workshop will receive a certificate of completion and become an Ambassador for Beauty Justice, equipped to share this knowledge with your own community, fostering healthier, more affirming conversations about beauty, self-love, and wellness.
Tuesday, 13, 18.00 -
Tuesday, 13, 20.00
Los Angeles,
CA
_$25
Workshops that expose and provide access to the world of STEAM via keynote speakers, panel discussions and college readiness workshops.
Sacred S.I.S.T.A.H.S. (Sisters In Solidarity Teaching And Healing our Spirits) Inc., is a 501(C)(3) nonprofit educational enrichment and mentoring organization for women and children of the Inland Empire. Its mission is to empower, serve, and improve the overall health and well-being of African American women and children.
The Sacred Sistahs STEAM conference is offered each spring to usher curious and purposeful teen girls into collegiate environments for a day of lectures and workshops that offer exposure, revelation and access to the world of STEAM, relevant college and career paths, and the women involved in it. And this year, 2026, we will have done this for 14 years!
On April 18, 2026, at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, Sacred Sistahs will hold its 14th Annual STEAM Conference themed STEAMing the Future: Exploring AI, Healthcare, and Innovation. The 2026 conference will host featured speakers, workshops, and a college panel for parents.
The conference provides opportunities for peer support and engagement, ideas and road maps for academic success, in addition to mentor development.
Research has demonstrated that even though girls perform as well as boys in science and math, there is a marked loss in interest in STEM areas that occurs in middle school. Moreover, girls’ attitudes about careers in math and science affect their persistence and involvement in advanced coursework during their high school years. Our conferences aim to show young teen girls their “possibilities” by introducing them to and giving them access to dialogue with brilliant and successful professional women eager to share their stories of triumph and persistence.
We have had the good fortune to partner with hosts, Harvey Mudd College and Western University, to present years of enriching presentations by STEM industry, academics and practitioners that span the gamut, sharing their expertise in space exploration, medicine, energy and chemical engineering, as well as Mathematics and Statistics.
It has been said that the strength of the STEM workforce is viewed as an indicator of a nation’s ability to sustain itself. As teen girls, you hold the future of our world in your heads and hands. It is our vision that one day you will cultivate the S.E.S.H.A.T. mathematical genius within you, carrying forth a legacy of excellence and leadership in math, science, and related disciplines.
We look forward to seeing you at this year's Sacred S.I.S.T.A.H.S. conference.
Monday, 04, 08.00 - Monday, 04, 16.00
Claremont, CA
0.00
Identity, Leadership & AI: Your Authentic Power Toolkit
Stop Code-Switching. Start Leading Like YOU.
YOU'RE EXHAUSTED, AREN'T YOU?
Exhausted from switching up your tone in meetings. Tired of dimming your light to make others comfortable. Drained from second-guessing whether you "sound professional enough" or if you're "doing leadership right."
Here's the truth nobody's saying out loud: The pain of performing is killing your power.
Every day you code-switch is another day your authentic leadership stays hidden. Another day you're leading from someone else's playbook instead of your own.
What if you could just... stop?
THIS CONFERENCE IS YOUR PERMISSION SLIP
You've been waiting for someone to tell you it's okay to:
Ask for help without feeling weak
Lead your way, not their way
Show up as yourself unapologetically
Use your voice without translation
Consider this your official permission.
You don't have to know everything. You don't have to have it all figured out. You don't have to prove you belong.
You already do.
WHO YOU'RE BECOMING (NOT JUST WHAT YOU'RE LEARNING)
This isn't about tactics. It's about transformation.
You're not here to collect another certificate. You're here to step into the leader you've always been the one who's been waiting for permission to emerge.
By the end of this conference, you will BE: ✓ A leader who trusts her own voice
✓ Someone who leads without compromising authenticity
✓ A trailblazer who uses AI as liberation, not replacement
✓ A woman who doesn't code-switch she code-BREAKS
This is about identity, not just outcomes.
Monday, 04, 08.00 - Monday, 04, 16.00
La Mesa, CA
161.90
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