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Building Better Partnerships: Navigating Power, Identity, and Trust in Community Collaboration

Monday, October 6, 2025
10:30 AM - 11:45 AM ET
Location: South American AB

    Speaker(s)

  • Joo Hee Pomplun

    <strong>Executive Director</strong>
    Alliance for Metropolitan Stability

  • Tristen Hall

    <strong>Senior Consultant Digital Media & Storytelling</strong>
    ThirdSpace Action Lab

  • Curtis Minter

    <strong>Senior Fellow</strong>
    ThirdSpace Action Lab

Authentic community partnerships are built on trust, equity, and mutual respect, but they often unfold within complex dynamics shaped by power, identity, and history. This session explores practical strategies and research-informed frameworks for navigating insider/outsider tensions, managing power differentials, and fostering inclusive engagement across diverse stakeholders. Drawing on lived experience and grounded practice, participants will examine what it takes to build and sustain partnerships that are not only effective but also transformative.

This session offers tools and reflection prompts to help you deepen relationships, avoid common pitfalls, and build coalitions that hold integrity in the face of systemic imbalance.

Thank you to ThirdSpace Action Lab for sponsoring this session.