New York City’s payroll spans millions of employees and billions in spending each year—but what stories lie beneath the numbers? In this hands-on workshop, we’ll analyze a decade of public payroll records (2014–2024) to uncover how compensation is distributed across agencies, roles, and boroughs. Using Python and real NYC Open Data, you’ll learn to clean messy civic datasets, detect overtime trends, measure pay equity, and visualize budgetary shifts over time. Whether you're interested in data journalism, public policy, or municipal analytics, this session will equip you to transform raw payroll files into meaningful, evidence-based insights about the city's workforce.

The current U.S. regime has abused its power to eradicate resources for immigrant and (un)documented populations, enforcing silence and isolation onto these families, neighborhoods, and communities. For those multi-marginalized by race, gender, sexuality, and/or disability, these terrors are further exacerbated as the administration threatens their health, relationships, identities, and lives. To preserve these stories, struggles, and survivals, an action-based charity anthology will explore the political and cultural impacts of ICE raids, mass deportations, and traumatic events towards multi-marginalized immigrants. Applying the frameworks of pluralism, Social Role Valorization Theory, and others, the charity anthology will empower disenfranchised creators to share their stories of strength, kinship, and radical hope.

The acceptance of technology in healthcare is primarily researched by employing two particular theories that did not originate in the healthcare arena. Given the variety of healthcare settings and stakeholders these theories may be lacking in their ability to truly capture the various factors that impact technology acceptance in healthcare. This presentation will explore commonly recognized contributors to technology acceptance while also offering suggestions for future research considerations. To better illustrate this topic, it will be addressed from the perspective of healthcare professionals as well as patients and will be based on personal experience with adopting and implementing technology in healthcare.

This workshop explores Peplau's theory of Interpersonal Relations and its use as a tool to guide nursing practice and integrate new evidence-based practice strategies. Participants will examine how the concepts discussed can enhance health literacy and improve chronic disease management. The session will also highlight applications of the theory beyond the nursing profession, including its integration into information technology. Attendees will be encouraged to reflect on and explore how elements of interpersonal relations theory can be applied within their own client-facing professional roles and to develop strategies for becoming effective change agents within their communities.

This workshop invites participants to re-imagine accessibility using the framework of Disability Justice (DJ). In the U.S., accessibility is understood through the lens of legal compliance. How might we re-imagine accessibility so that it does not feel like we are simply ticking boxes off a checklist? This workshop is intended for students, staff, faculty, and community members. As a framework, Disability Justice teaches us to center intersectionality and the leadership of those impacted. Building upon the Disability Rights Movement, Disability Justice embraces the messiness and complexities of disabled lives. Emerging out of movement work, Disability Justice demands collective access and liberation for all disabled people. You can read the 10 principles of Disability Justice here. Drawing upon lessons from the COVID19 pandemic and the recent Immigrant Advocacy Conference, this workshop encourages participants to examine their relationship to disability, accessibility, and ableism. This workshop will provide concrete tools and suggestions on how we can expansively re-imagine accessibility.

In this closing keynote, Dr. Sarah Zeller-Berkman reflects on what it means to sustain change beyond individual leadership moments. Drawing from more than 25 years of work in youth and community development, participatory action research, and public scholarship, she explores how young people and communities drive collective action and long-term impact.

This keynote challenges participants to move forward with intention - centering youth voice, shared responsibility, and community wellbeing as essential elements of lasting change.