Audre Lorde Summit

Audre Lorde Summit
2026 Audre Lorde Summit cohort of about 50 people wearing dark blue sweatshirts posed silly in front of the camera

The Audre Lorde Summit is hosted annually by the Aulbani J. Beauregard Center for Equity, Justice, and Freedom. The Audre Lorde Summit is a weekend-long, certificate-bearing leadership development experience designed to help students develop the knowledge, skills, and confidence to lead in diverse, multicultural, and global communities. Grounded in intergroup dialogue and experiential learning, participants develop the ability to communicate effectively and engage productively across differences. 

Additionally, students will have the opportunity to engage with UNH senior leadership and network amongst participants. 

The Summit is open to all UNH undergraduate and graduate and professional students at  no cost, however, we are only able to facilitate 50 spots.

Applications for the 2027 Audre Lorde Summit are now open!

The final deadline for completed applications are due by Friday, November 13th at 11:59pm. 
Applicants will be notified on a rolling basis. 

2027 Audre Lorde Summit Schedule at Glance: 

 
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Day 1 | Friday February 26, 2027

12:00 – 12:45pm | Check in, Lunch, Meet and Greet
1:00 – 2:30pm | Welcome, Leadership Moment #1
2:30 – 4:00pm | Session 1
4:15 – 5:45pm | Session 2
5:45 – 6:30pm | Dinner

Day 2 | Saturday February 27, 2027
8:30 – 9:00am | Breakfast
9:00 – 10:15am | Session 3
10:15 - 10:45am | Decompression Break
10:45am – 12:00pm | Session 4
12:00 – 1:00pm | Lunch
1:00 – 3:30pm | Session 5
3:30 - 4:00pm | Decompression Break
4:00 – 5:30pm | Session 6
5:30 – 6:00pm | Dinner

Day 3 | Sunday February 28, 2027
8:30 – 9:00am | Breakfast
9:00 – 10:00am | Session 7
10:00 – 11:00am | Session 8 and Leadership Moment #2
11:30am – 12:30pm | Lunch, Closing Remarks, Group Photos

Please direct any questions you have to Mae Flibotte at Mae.Flibotte@UNH.edu. Thank you! 

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2026 Audre Lorde Summit

Program Dates: Friday, February 27 through Sunday, March 1, 2026

Location: Strafford Room, Memorial Union Building (MUB), Durham Campus

Information included on website about the Audre Lorde Summit

2025 Audre Lorde Summit

Program Dates: Friday, February 28 through Sunday, March 2, 2025

Location: Strafford Room, Memorial Union Building (MUB), Durham Campus

What is Intergroup Dialogue?

The Audre Lorde Summit is a weekend-long immersive learning experience that focuses on expanding students’ leadership skills. The curriculum helps participants develop verbal communication skills needed to lead effectively in a diverse, multicultural, and globalized world by exploring various modalities of verbal communication. Specifically, participants gain the knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed to productively engage differences through intergroup dialogue. 

Intergroup dialogue seeks, not to establish agreement amongst participants that will inherently disagree, but instead to create a common understanding amongst a group that has committed itself to an experience of perspective shifting. As a result, participants will be able to learn and develop skillsets that will allow them to confront tensions of difference as student leaders to create meaningful and sustainable bridges across groups within, as well as outside of, their college experience.  

Through active participation in the Audre Lorde Summit, students will be able to:  

  1. Explore strategies to co-create community norms and shared expectations to foster and engage within a brave space. 

  2. Develop a shared meaning of dialogue through conceptualizing and recognizing different modalities of verbal communication including discussion, debate, speech, and dialogue and how they are used. 

  3. Explore intergroup dialogue as a collaborative tool for engaging differences and developing a shared understanding.

  4. Identify understanding of how our intersecting identities, social structures, and institutions shape our experiences as foundational to engaging in intergroup dialogue.  

  5. Demonstrate the ability to navigate dialogue on critical issues by exploring and practicing frameworks such as the learning edge, affirming inquiry, and responding to triggers appropriately. 

  6. Develop individual goals relating to personal leadership action planning and alliance building to empower continued personal growth and engagement for inclusive leadership.