A poet and a member of the Asian Pacific American Women’s Leadership Institute, Burgess, a Wai’anae native and activist, is also a community building facilitator, trainer and consultant.

Building Beloved Communities: Organizing from a Native View
A native Hawaiian poet, cultural translator and storyteller, Burgess will reflect on how to build beloved communities, drawing on her deep experience in community, family and values-based economic development. Interviewed on stage by Yes! editor Sarah van Gelder, she will share how mediation and storytelling processes can be part of conflict transformation.