Speaking

Keynotes, panels and workshops.

Zedé speaks on parallel systems of care, mutual aid as practice and strategy, Fannie Lou Hamer's model for building, and how organizations outlast any one leader. In person or virtual, in the U.S. and internationally. To book her, email zede@seedsworthsowing.org.

Coming up

Building Parallel Systems: The Intensive

Five-day live training for organizations

Virtual

Past talks

The Community Welfare System

NASO Fireside Chat, North American School for Organizers

Virtual

The strategy to care for community

Black Digital Renaissance

Birmingham, AL

How to build a Community Welfare System

CWS Open Workshops, monthly series

Virtual

Growing a culture of collective care

Women's Foundation of Minnesota, Rise + Thrive 40th Anniversary

Minneapolis

Booking a talk?

Send the date, the place, who's coming and what you'd like Zedé to speak on.

Honored by and spoken at

  • Black Lives Matter Dreamers & Disruptors Award, 2026

  • Women's Foundation of Minnesota Rest Up Award, 2023

  • North American School for Organizers

  • Black Digital Renaissance

  • Black Lives Matter Dreamers & Disruptors Award, 2026

  • Women's Foundation of Minnesota Rest Up Award, 2023

  • North American School for Organizers

  • Black Digital Renaissance

The newsletter

Essays on building care that lasts.

Mutual aid, movement accountability and the Community Welfare System, sent to 4,300+ readers on Substack. Free to read, with paid essays for those who can support the work.

Zedé Harut

Strategist, writer and creator of the Community Welfare System. Building parallel systems of care in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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© 2026 Zedé Harut. All rights reserved.

© 2026 Zedé Harut. All rights reserved.