State of Solidarity: Navigating Internal Movement Tensions and Conflict by Building Movement Project

About the Building Movement Project

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Learn more about the Building Movement Project

About Solidarity Is

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Moderator: Adaku Utah

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Born in Baltimore, Maryland, raised in Festac, Nigeria, grounded in her legacy of organizers, farmers and healers, Adaku harnesses her seasoned skills as a political strategist, holistic healer, transformative facilitator, somatics coach and ritual artist as an act of love and commitment to her community. She enjoys co-cultivating social justice leaders and organizations to be more strategic, sustainable, and impactful. For over twenty years, their work has centered on movements for radical social change, with a focus on gender, reproductive, race, youth, and healing justice. They currently work on staff with the Building Movement Project where they supports movement building organizations to tackle the most significant social issues of our times by developing research, creating tools and trainings, providing guidance, and facilitating networks for transformative change.

Tamika Middleton

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Tamika is the Managing Director of Women's March. She is an organizer, doula, midwifery apprentice, writer, and unschooling mama who is passionate about and active in struggles that affect Black women’s lives. Tamika has organized for abolition, reproductive justice, and for domestic workers’ rights. She is a founding member of the Metro Atlanta Mutual Aid (MAMA) Fund and JustGeorgia Coalition. She serves as a Movement-Led Advisory Board member of Cypress Fund and The Grove, a Community Advisory Board member of Critical Resistance, a Leadership Team member of the Kindred Southern Healing Justice Collective and as a member of the training team for BOLD (Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity).

Mónica Enríquez-Enríquez

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Born and raised in Colombia, Mónica (she/her/they/them) is a queer migrant who lives in New York and has been working for gender justice and LGBTQI rights for fifteen years, including seven years in progressive and feminist philanthropy focusing on Latin America and the Caribbean. Prior to Foundation for a Just Society (FJS) Mónica worked for Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice as a program officer and associate director of programs to coordinate and support programs such as the Latin America and Caribbean and US anti-criminalization portfolios, the Global Arts Fund, and CommsLabs – a capacity building program on technology, media, and communications. Mónica holds a bachelor’s degree in International Relations from San Francisco State University and a Master of Fine Arts in Digital Arts and New Media from University of California Santa Cruz. Mónica believes in the power of grassroots movements, in artivism as a tool to imagine and create a more just world, and in interdependence as a way to heal and sustain our planet and our communities.

Mike Ishii

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Michael Ishii is a yonsei living in NYC where he has split his time as a performing artist, organizer and clinician. Michael is the co-leader and co-founder of Tsuru for Solidarity and has been the co-chair of the New York Day of Remembrance Committee for 30 years. He is the chair of the New York Japanese American Oral History Project which received a 2018 JACS Grant, and he is a former president of the JACL, New York Chapter. Michael also serves as a volunteer for the Tule Lake Pilgrimage Committee and sits on the board for the Hudson Valley Park for Study and Reflection. He has written and performed spoken word and performance art pieces related to his family’s incarceration in the WRA camp, Minidoka, exploring themes of remembrance and healing from intergenerational trauma. He studied classical music at the Oberlin Conservatory and The Juilliard School, performing extensively as a french hornist with NYC orchestra and chamber ensembles for 20 years before moving to a career in East Asian medicine. Michael was the clinical chair for the University of Bridgeport Acupuncture Institute and now practices privately in NYC. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate studying Traditional Chinese Medicine with a focus on the ability of five phase nodal sounds to affect blood pressure in humans.

Women's March

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Foundation for a Just Society

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Tsuru for Solidarity

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To Transform Conflict in Movements, We Must Learn How to Stay in It Together

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Is Generative Conflict Possible?

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In this episode, Yuko Uchikawa, a restorative justice practitioner and mediator, shares practices and approaches to address conflict among individuals, within organizations, and in movements.

In It Together

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A Framework for Conflict Transformation In Movement-Building Groups

Explore the tools and resources that support the use of human-centered, non-punitive accountability practices in movement spaces.

Transform Harm

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TransformHarm.org is a resource hub for ending violence. We are not an organization. This site offers an introduction to transformative justice.

Cancel Culture | A Convergence Series

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Because We Need Each Other: Conversations on Cancel Culture

Solidarity Stances

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A Resource for Organizations and Movements Navigating Authoritarian Conditions

Highlights and newest offerings from BMP & Solidarity Is

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2025 Race to Lead Survey

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This survey is for anyone who currently works for pay at a nonprofit organization in the United States or its territories, regardless of your role, title, or how long you've been in the sector.

Led by the Building Movement Project (BMP), the Race to Lead initiative has surveyed nonprofit workers every three years since 2016. With over 12,000 responses collected to date, it remains one of the largest data sources on race and leadership in the sector.

Security to Wellbeing Framework Practice Guide

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This new offering from the Building Movement Project is based on the Security to Wellbeing Framework, created by service providers for service providers. Its goal is to create a space for providers to reflect, assess, and step into social change work.

Solidarity Is Practice Guide

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The Solidarity Is Practice Guide is an offering from Building Movement Project and SolidarityIs that enables individuals and organizations to engage in transformative solidarity practice.

Building Blocks for Change

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Building Blocks for Change (BB4C) is an assessment designed to help nonprofits build the foundation to foster more racially equitable workplaces.

Solidarity Philanthropy

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Combahee River Collective Statement

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"We believe that the most profound and potentially most radical politics come directly out of our own identity, as opposed to working to end somebody. else's oppression."

Movement Lessons from the First 100 Days

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Cara Page

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Episode notes & transcript

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Find the transcript for this conversation and graphic illustrations.