DNOVA Summit 2025: Building Community Power, Growing Community Wealth

DNOVA Summit 2025: Building Community Power, Growing Community Wealth Image

Saturday, April 26 - Sunday, April 27, 2025

10:00 AM to 4:30 PM EDT. Merten Hall, Horizon Hall

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Summit Program

Northern Virginia is in the midst of rapid transformation, and the choices made today will define the region for years to come. What kind of community will emerge over the next decade? Whose voices will shape its future? And whose interests will be prioritized? These pressing questions are at the core of Building Community Power, Growing Community Wealth, a two-day gathering dedicated to envisioning and building a more inclusive, democratic, equitable, and sustainable Northern Virginia. 

It’s time to gather the energies and initiative of the many people of northern Virginia who are working to build a regional community, economy, and politics that are truly inclusive, democratic, equitable, and sustainable. Join this second Democratizing NOVA Summit to learn from each other as well as from community wealth, solidarity economy, just transition, restorative justice, community safety, participatory democracy, constitutional change, and other next system initiatives local and global. 

The Summit will gather community members and academic scholars to explore the challenges and opportunities for a more equitable and inclusive Northern Virginia. Through workshops, panel presentations, and more, participants learn from each other about community wealth, solidarity economy, and other next system initiatives and discuss the findings of DNOVA's community-engaged research. 

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Keynote speaker: Dr. Anthony Cook   is the founder of the Coalition for Racial Equity and Democratic Economy at Georgetown Law and a magna cum laude graduate of Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of International and Public Policy, Professor Cook graduated from the Yale Law School and practiced venture capital and corporate law. He is also a community activist who The American Bar Association honored as "One of 21 Lawyers Leading America into the 21st Century". 

The DNOVA Summit is sponsored by Next System Studies GMU and the Center for Social Sciences, the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, and the Institute for Sustainable Earth at Mason, with the generous underwriting of the Virginia Asian Chamber of Commerce (VACC) and the Virginia Asian Foundation (VAF). The first DNOVA Summit was held in April 2022. To read the full DNOVA Summit 2022 program, click here.