Everyone—regardless of race, gender, nativity, and immigration status—deserves a life of dignity, agency, and belonging. Economic security, mobility, and collective prosperity are essential to realizing these inclusive values.
However, current narratives and dominant mental models often limit our understanding of immigrant people and communities to their economic contributions as laborers and consumers, reflecting an economy organized around extraction rather than mutuality.
Bay Area Asset Funders Network’s inaugural Inclusive Economic and Immigrant Rights Summit invites you to engage with a fuller vision: our economy as one that centers people and the environments in which we live–one where we see immigrant people and workers as rights-holders whose human flourishing and economic well-being are necessary for inclusive prosperity.
Join fellow funders, advocates, and regional leaders for an engaging day that will:
- Deepen your understanding of how and why inclusive economic rights are an essential element of basic human rights
- Explore how economic rights and immigrant rights are fundamentally interconnected, guided by pioneering scholars and practitioners
- Learn innovative approaches and actionable funding strategies that support immigrant people, communities, and build inclusive prosperity
- Experience powerful stories and insights from immigrant rights and economic justice advocates and community leaders about their lived experiences in the Bay Area
- Find inspiration and concrete pathways to advance an affirmative vision of immigrant people as integral to our communities, culture, and country–not merely as participants but as builders and shapers
- Forge meaningful connections with peers and leave energized for the work ahead
Bay Area AFN is proud to partner with the New School’s Institute on Race, Power, and Political Economy, UC Berkeley Labor Center, and USC Equity Research Institute to host this inaugural Inclusive Economic and Immigrant Rights Summit on Thursday, November 6, 2025, in Oakland, California.
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