Saturday, April 19th: Virtual #DeafWoke Interview With Dr. Akilah Cadet

Join #DeafWoke for a powerful conversation on dismantling white supremacy, belonging, and leadership with Dr. Akilah Cadet. A Black disabled author, entrepreneur, and culture strategist, Dr. Cadet is reshaping workplaces, communities, and the future—one bold move at a time.

Saturday, April 19, 2025
11 AM PT / 2 PM ET

Live on YouTube & Facebook

Watch Live: https://www.facebook.com/share/16Q58vt1v5/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/UrbanJazzDanceCompany
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UrbanJazzDance

ASL-English voice interpretation and English captions provided.

#DeafWoke is a virtual consciousness-raising engaging online talk show, led by Black and Indigenous Deaf host Mx. Antoine Hunter PurpleFireCrow.

Founded as a response to isolation and misinformation experienced during COVID-19, #DeafWoke provides access to Deaf BIPOC life stories, critical coverage of the Black Lives Matter movement, education, arts, social justice, and analysis of COVID-19-related news for Deaf, DeafBlind, DeafDisabled, Hard of Hearing, Late-Deafened, and Black Hearing Communities.

Our mission is to uplift BIPOC Deaf and disabled artists’ voices, contribute to the arts and larger society, and increase awareness at the intersections of audism, ableism, and racism. This includes DeafDisabled stories as a force for cultural change and collective liberation. There is also space to talk about economics, parenthood, and education.

All episodes are produced with ASL interpreters and captioning, welcoming everyone to the conversation. It’s inspiring, it’s funny, it’s beautiful with the ugly, it’s things people don’t really talk about, it’s unheard of—it’s Deaf Woke.

Guest Bio:
Dr. Akilah Cadet is the Founder and CEO of Change Cadet, an organizational development consulting firm that offers services that support embedding belonging into overall company culture, identity, and strategy (you know what Donald is actively attacking). As a Forbes Next1000 Entrepreneur, her work is behind some of the biggest brands you use every day. Dismantling white supremacy through storytelling is at the core of her work as a leader, speaker, creative director, producer, writer, editor, co-owner of the Oakland Roots and Soul soccer teams (she led the most successful community investment round in sports history), and author of White Supremacy is All Around: Notes From a Black Disabled Woman in a White World. She literally has all the degrees, lives in and loves Oakland, CA, celebrates her disability, is a proud Beyoncé advocate, and has an incredible shoe game.

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The background is red behind Dr. Akilah Cadet and green behind Mx.
Antoine Hunter PurpleFireCrow. At the top, yellow text reads:

Antoine Hunter Presents: #DeafWoke.

Below, in large yellow text, the date and time:

Saturday, April 19, 2025, 11 AM PT / 2 PM ET.

Additional yellow text states:

Join Mx. Hunter and Dr. Akilah Cadet for a powerful conversation on dismantling white supremacy, belonging, and leadership. A Black disabled author, entrepreneur, and culture strategist, Dr. Cadet is reshaping workplaces, communities, and the future—one bold move at a time.

Accessible in English & ASL with auto-captions.

On the left, Dr. Akilah Cadet, a Black disabled woman with golden blonde braids and red lipstick, wears a purple spaghetti strap dress and gold jewelry. She looks up and to the side with a calm but powerful expression. On the right, Mx. Antoine Hunter, an Indigenous African-American person with dark chocolate skin from his mother. He has almond shaped eyes with long lashes. He has long black dreadlocks tied in a low braid and a full beard. Antoine is wearing a dark v-neck shirt and smiling.

At the bottom, logos for Urban Jazz Dance Company, sign language interpretation, closed captions, YouTube Live, and Facebook Live appear.
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