The Chi DNA Speaker Series collaborates with community groups, schools, and other institutions/people. With its academic roots and community integration, Chi DNA is positioned to analyze, discuss, and further call to action holistic solutions and dialogue around its many themes in a participatory nature.

Movement, Media & Municipal Elections

 On February 20th, Cup & Spoon (now Harrison's Cafe and Clubhouse) hosted Chi DNA: Movement, Media, and Municipal Elections, a multifaceted, community-engaging event featuring youth spoken word performances, the Chi DNA Episode 3 micro-documentary premiere, interactive movement activities (InterPlay), voting information, and participatory discourse around the intersections of voting, civic engagement, systemic violence, and radical politics. Read more the Chi DNA collaborators at Interplay.org and NoCopAcademy.com.

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Event Promotional Graphic by Agnotti Cowie of Interplay

 DePaul University Honors Program &
​Bourbon 'n BrownTown

Event photos by Andrew Merz (merz-photo.com)

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On October 5, 2018, the DePaul University Honors Program hosted SoapBox's affiliate podcast Bourbon ’n BrownTown in this live podcast recording tackling the Honors Program’s themes of the year, exile and refuge, as well as local/global displacement as a whole. After introducing SoapBox, the Chi DNA project, and the Bourbon ’n BrownTown format, BrownTown, their guests Jessica Puri and Heavy Crownz, and the university audience watched the Chi DNA Micro-Doc Episode 3 as a springboard for their discussion and following Q&A.

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Help us continue to integrate and amplify community voices around various Chi DNA topics. Drop us a line if you would like to explore a more creative, equitable, and holistic world with us.

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“[Chi DNA is] bridging that gap, which I think needs to happen. We need to have these cross conversations on—how do the streets impact the music and how does the music impact the streets? What’s the responsibility around that? And what can we do to get through to people without putting this value judgement on it?”
- KOFI ADEMOLA | Activist, Black Lives Matter Chicago