CONFERENCE2019

Overcoming Barriers;
Creating Opportunities

 Conference Journal

 

Click on the cover image to download the 2019 In My Mind Conference Journal.

 

 Speakers

 

 Film Forum

LA SERENATA

Director: Adelina Anthony
Writer: Ernesto Javier Martínez
Producers: Ernesto Javier Martínez, Adelina Anthony and Marisa Becerra

Two parents struggle with their beloved Mexican musical tradition when their son requests a love song for another boy. 

GUARDING SANTOS

Director: Adelina Anthony
Writer: Marisa Becerra
Producers: Adelina Anthony and Marisa Becerra

A Mexican American child rebels against gender norms, forcing her traditional parents to make a choice about how to raise her.

ODE TO PABLO

Director: Adelina Anthony
Writer: Adelina Anthony
Producers: Adelina Anthony and Marisa Becerra

Challenged to a basketball game by local boys, Pablo, a queer, Deaf AfroLatino, agrees to play.

 2019 Awardees

The In My Mind Conference congratulates its 2019 Fifth Anniversary Awardees, who supported the Conference over the last five years. Awards were presented at the reception “Together We Are @ the Table”, hosted and sponsored by #TwitterOpen on Wednesday, Oct 9.

 

Sponsors & Community Partners

 
 

Planning Team

 
  • Antoine Craigwell (DBGM)

  • Lissette Marerro (US HHS)

  • Leiba France (NYC DOHMH)

  • Alex Joinville, LMHC (SUNY Downstate)

  • Wilhelmina Perry, Ph.D (R’td LGBT Faith Leaders of African Descent)

  • Dwayne Brown