Breaking the ICE is a deliberate, breathless convergence—a strategic intervention that breathes life into the space between us. It unites women who move through entirely different worlds, weaving together the lives of Black, African Diaspora, Arab, Latina, White, and Asian women. We gather with intention, bridging the deep, silent divides of culture, faith, socioeconomic lineage, and raw lived experience.

This event is designed to be an intentional, transformative space where community organizing meets cultural celebration.

This time, we gather around the table. And VAAC’s Angela Davenport will be a featured host of this event along with Rita Brown and Lori Goldman.

Every game has its players. Every player has a strategy. There are rules spoken aloud and rules you only discover once you are already in play. There is power in knowing when to move, when to wait, when to protect your queen and when it is finally time to take the king.

The Games We Play is an intimate evening of strategy, pleasure, competition, and political discovery. Across scattered tables, women will gather over chessboards, cards, and games designed to make us think differently about power. We will laugh, challenge one another, break bread, and uncover the quiet calculations behind the political world we move through every day.

Because politics has always had its games.

Who gets invited to the table? Who knows the rules before the game begins? Who has spent years quietly learning the board? And what happens when women from entirely different worlds sit across from one another and begin sharing what they know?

Event Schedule

5:00 PM–8:00 PM | The Board, The Players, The Power and light dinner.

Address provided upon registration.

Take your seat.

Move between tables filled with games, conversation, food, and connection. Learn the seductive discipline of chess—patience, sacrifice, protection, anticipation. Enter Political Healing Monopoly, where those who have spent years doing the work help reveal how power, relationships, resources, and organizing actually move through our communities.

And somewhere between the laughter, competition, and the next move, we will enter a deeper conversation about the games of politics to the rules nobody writes down, the rooms where decisions are made, the relationships that shift the board, and the strategies communities have used to survive, organize, and build power.

Come curious. Come competitive. Come ready to teach something and ready to be taught.

The board is already set. The question is: how will you play?

Because once you understand the game, you can begin to understand the board.

Host Committees & Partners

Brought to you in powerful solidarity with:

• Feministas por los Demócratas
• Arab Americans for Progress
• Reproductive Freedom for All
• ABISA