Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference

Education and advocacy are central to the work of this Chicago organization, which brings together thought leaders and activists from churches, academia, and communities. It hosts local and regional convenings and critical conversations, including a Monday evening program, and shares resources and tools for public learning. Its specialties include justice innovation, movement-building, knowledge and archive activation, pastoral formation, and engagement across global and diasporic networks. The organization also explores faith, religion, artificial intelligence, cultural resistance, and Africa through its Prophetic Intelligence conversations. Its work centers on imagining and preparing for Black futures through community traditions and institutions. The Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference is based in Chicago.