About Me
Nalani Love-Harris is an experienced event manager who implements a radical hospitality approach where care is both a political concept and a foundation for radical outcomes for communities and organizations. In recent collaborations, she uses her skills and experience to advance organizations’ missions by bridging groundbreaking initiatives with radical hospitality to enable actionable and translatable outputs that create radical outcomes that incentivize support from diverse stakeholders.
In her recent work with the Race, Climate, & Agrarian Justice Lab, she coordinated BEYOND THE FARM BILL: Strategizing Agrarian Politics for Racial and Climate Justice, a transnational summit that brought together advocates, scholars, farmers, farmworkers, and community leaders to generate shared analysis. To create a space that meets the needs of the event, Nalani collaborated to curate a space where power can be decentralized to prioritize deep engagement and create a sense of belonging; applied a radical care approach to identify and meet guests' needs that are often hidden and forgotten by systemic oppression; and encouraged relationship building and co-creation.
With the Antiracist Research & Policy Center, she organized the center’s national academic conference on abolitionist praxis, expert panels, book talks, and speaker engagements. Along with events, she produced the center’s rapid-response live streams that analyzed the ramifications of U.S. policies on race, Supreme Court decisions on Roe v. Wade and Affirmative Action, and a mini-series of live streams on pointing the U.S. farm bill toward racial justice called ‘Farm Bill Summer’. In addition to event management, she coordinates programming for student education initiatives, public engagement, and workshops for affiliates, faculty fellows, and grantees to showcase their research, manuscripts, and projects on transnational, relational, and/or intersectional research.
When she is not supporting the research events and programming of antiracist organizations, Nalani works on her social media project and personal research. Her social media project ‘GrowwithNalani’ serves as a site where she engages her journey as a Black transwoman through the lens of racial, gender, and labor commentary; explores how systems and cultures contribute to pop culture issues and events through a Black trans femme lens. In her research, Nalani explores Black trans motherhood not only at the site of reproduction and adoption but at the sites of found family, community building, ballroom, labor, and sex.
