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The Audre Lorde Summit (formerly known as the MLK Summit) is hosted annually by the Aulbani J. Beauregard Center for Equity, Justice, and Freedom. The Summit is a weekend long leadership development opportunity that provides a supportive learning space for students to build identity consciousness and expand their knowledge and skills to practice equity and inclusion centered leadership. The Summit is an excellent opportunity for students to create a greater sense of community and develop skills to lead in our diverse, multicultural, and globalized world. Additionally, participants will have an opportunity to engage with and learn from members of the UNH senior leadership and earn a certificate at the end of the Summit.?
The Summit is open to all UNH undergraduate and graduate and professional students at ?no cost, however, we are only able to facilitate 50 spots.?
2025 Audre Lorde Summit applications are now Open! The final deadline for completed applications is 11:59pm on Thursday, January 30, 2025.? Please direct any questions you have to Mae Flibotte at Mae.Flibotte@UNH.edu. Thank you!?
2025 Audre Lorde Summit Schedule at Glance:?
Day 1 | Friday February 28, 2025
12:00 – 12:45pm | Check in and Lunch??
12:45 – 1:00pm | Break
1:00 – 2:30pm | Welcome, Expectations and Logistics, Leadership Moment?
2:30 – 4:00 pm | Session 1?
4:00 – 4:15pm | Break
4:15 – 5:15pm | Session 2?
5:15 – 5:45pm | Journal Reflection??
5:45 – 6:30 | Dinner??
Day 2 | Saturday March 1, 2025
8:00 – 8:45am | Breakfast
9:00 – 10:30am | Session 3
10:30 – 10:45am | Break
10:45am – 12:00pm | Session 4
12:00 – 12:45pm | Lunch
1:00 – 2:30 pm | Session 5
2:30 – 2:45 | Break
2:45 – 5:30 pm | Session 6
5:30 – 6:45 pm | Dinner and Reflection
Day 3 | Sunday March 2, 2025?
8:00 – 8:45am | Breakfast
9:00 – 10:30am | Session 7 and Final Reflection
10:45 – 11:30 am | Leadership Moment
11:30am – 12:30pm | Lunch and Closing Ceremony
Learning Outcomes
The Audre Lorde Summit is a weekend-long immersive learning experience that focuses on expanding students’ leadership skills. The curriculum helps participants develop verbal communication skills needed to lead effectively in a diverse, multicultural, and globalized world by exploring various modalities of verbal communication. Specifically, participants gain the knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed to productively engage differences through intergroup dialogue.?
Intergroup dialogue seeks, not to establish agreement amongst participants that will inherently disagree, but instead to create a common understanding amongst a group that has committed itself to an experience of perspective shifting. As a result, participants will be able to learn and develop skillsets that will allow them to confront tensions of difference as student leaders to create meaningful and sustainable bridges across groups within, as well as outside of, their college experience.??
Through active participation in the Audre Lorde Summit, students will be able to:??
- Explore strategies to co-create community norms and shared expectations to foster and engage within a brave space.??
- Develop a shared meaning of dialogue through conceptualizing and recognizing different modalities of verbal communication including discussion, debate, speech, and dialogue and how they are used.??
- Explore intergroup dialogue as a collaborative tool for engaging differences and developing a shared understanding.?
- Identify understanding of how our intersecting identities, social structures, and institutions shape our experiences as foundational to engaging in intergroup dialogue. ?
- Demonstrate the ability to navigate dialogue on critical issues by exploring and practicing frameworks such as the learning edge, affirming inquiry, and responding to triggers appropriately.??
- Develop individual goals relating to personal leadership action planning and alliance building to empower continued personal growth and engagement for inclusive leadership.??
