Bay Area Book Launch Celebration with Eveline Shen in Conversation with Malkia Devich-Cyril Â
đź“Ť Kinfolx, Oakland, CA
📅 Tuesday, August 19, 2025 | 5:30–8:00 PM
Currently at Capacity
In an era of overwhelming complexity and change, what does it take to lead with courage?
Join us for a festive evening with community for the Bay Area launch of Choosing to Lead Against the Current, the powerful new book from award-winning movement leader and executive strategist, Eveline Shen. Co-sponsored by the Women’s Foundation California and Libra Foundation, this intimate evening will feature a heart-opening conversation between Ev and Malkia Devich-Cyril, founder of Radical Loss, exploring how we navigate leadership, purpose, and hope in this moment of transformation.
With more than two decades at the forefront of reproductive justice and racial equity movements, Ev brings wisdom, humor, and grounded guidance to this timely offering. Her Courageous Operating System is a blueprint for how leaders—especially BIPOC women and gender-expansive changemakers—can stay connected to purpose, build momentum, increase their impact, and thrive while facing the currents of the repressive political environment.
Together, we’ll explore how to lead with heart, cultivate belonging, and build a future rooted in collective liberation.
What to Expect:
- An inspiring conversation with Eveline Shen and Malkia Devich-Cyril
- Excerpts and reflections from the book
- Audience Q&A
- Food, drinks, music, and community celebration
- On-site book sales, merch, and a call to action to join the Courageous Leadership movement
This event is now at capacity — thank you, community, for your overwhelming support!
We can’t wait to gather with you and celebrate courageous leadership together.
Speaker Bios:
Eveline Shen cultivates individual and collective leadership transformation. A key leader in growing the national Reproductive Justice movement, Eveline also directed Forward Together, a prominent national women-of-color-led organization, for two decades. An award-winning leader herself, Eveline has coached and trained hundreds of leaders from around the country in the reproductive and social justice fields and the philanthropic sector.
Today, Eveline shares her groundbreaking Courageous Operating System, a leadership framework designed to help activists, nonprofit executives, and funders navigate complex challenges with clarity and strength. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Associated Press, The Nation, Ms. Magazine, Daily Kos, and The San Francisco Chronicle. In August 2025, Eveline’s first book, Choosing to Lead Against the Current: The Courageous Operating System for Changemakers, will offer readers a powerful roadmap to lead with purpose, strategy, and impact.
Malkia “Mac” Devich-Cyril is the founder of the Radical Loss Project and co-directs the Healing, Sustainability and Culture Strategy at the Movement Innovation Collaborative. Devich-Cyril is a Black and Left movement strategist and facilitator, writer, public speaker and award winning activist on issues of collective grief, Black liberation, narrative change and power building. As the founding and former director of Media Justice, Devich-Cyril spearheaded more than two decades of national grassroots efforts for abolition and access in a digital age, galvanizing communities of color for an open internet, media access, and platform accountability. In 2002, Malkia Devich-Cyril helped coin the term “Media Justice,”in 2015 they coined the term “e-carceration”, and in 2019 declared that one significant goal of the Media Justice movement was to “fight for a future where we are all connected, represented and free.” In an era of rising authoritarianism and devastating mass loss, Devich-Cyril launched The Radical Loss Project in 2022.
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Health & Accessibility:Â In order to make this event accessible and welcoming to people of all abilities, we strongly encourage all guests to wear a mask. Complimentary masks will be available at the door. Thank you for helping us create a safe and inclusive environment for everyone.