Be a Speaker!
Share Your Knowledge while building neighborhoods of solidarity and resilience!
Amplify Your Voice
Share your expertise and insights with a passionate audience eager to learn from leaders in community advocacy.
Drive Change
Inspire attendees to take actionable steps towards creating resilient neighborhoods, empowering them to make a real difference in their communities.
Network with Allies
Connect with fellow changemakers, advocates, and organizations that share your vision for social justice and community support.
Showcase Your Work
Highlight your initiatives and successes, gaining visibility for your organization while motivating others through your impactful stories.
Our Story
We Are The Others (WATO) is a 501(c)3 tax exempt nonprofit with a mission to help and protect the vulnerable in the United States. During this period of profound unrest and uncertainty, we’re making a stand to ensure that everyone feels Safe, Seen, Secured, and Supported.
Our team came together at the end of 2024 and launched this nonprofit Jan. 2025. We were founded in Reno/Sparks, Nevada, but set ourselves to be nationwide.
We Are The Others serves two functions: we are a community of solidarity for vulnerable populations, and we connect those in need with the resources and services that can help them (confidentially, and at no cost).
WATO is committed to helping people feel safe, seen, secure, and supported. From helping Grandma to get a new pair of glasses, to needing aid after a disaster, to finding resources about your rights, to assistance paying your bills… our commUNITY is here.
About the United Voices: Building a Resilient Neighborhood
Coming together under one summit
When we asked our community and listened, we kept hearing the request and plea....
What can "I do"?
I don't like what I am seeing in my neighberhood!
How can I help?
What should I be looking for or doing to help another.
Knowing there are several people who specialize already in civil rights, immigration, protection, caregiving, delivering resources, disaster response, safety, and so much more --- We Are The Others wanted to bring together various experts together. During this summit we want to educate, share stories to inspire, give practical resources, and empower people so they can come together in solidarity, resiliency, and support for those in need, loved ones, and their fellow neighbors.. But it starts with having informed and impactful speakers to guide us.
This is where you could come in. We Are The Others is looking for speakers to come join our virtual summit. Do you have a topic that you feel aligns with our summit? Fill out the application/interest/key. information below.
(If you don't have all the details yet, that is fine. We want our speakers selected by June 27th and then a few more days to finalize the rest of the details).
FAQ
We want everyone to have a great experience so we have included some key information
Website is live- but only for internal purposes till we announce the page is open to the public to accept registrations.
You can see what we are building here: www.WeAreTheOthers.net/voices-united
The sessions to talk are a total of 45 minutes. You could do 30-35 minutes of a talk (camera and slide deck), and the last minutes being a Q & A. We request you give us permission to record and collect a donation if people want a recording, and being able to promote for marketing. We will provide marketing materials to share on social media and emails. Turn in key information for us to promote by June 30th.
- Monday July 7th- Finalize all speakers
- Monday July 7th- Need key information from each speakers (headshot, bio, title, description, etc.)
- Tuesday July 8th- Promotions start (social ads, emails, affiliate marketing, etc.)
- Thursday July 17th- Schedule for speakers finalized for order/day
- Thursday July 31th- Q and A/walk through so everyone is comfortable with how the summit with work/ any tech etc.
- Wednesday August 6th and Thursday August 7th Summit.
- Headshot (500 x 500 ideally)
- Business or nonprofit logo if you have it (one for a light background and one for a dark background)
- Name of title (If you have multiple topics that is fine)
- Description of session
- Social media handles so we can tag you on posts
- An introduction/bio about yourself. (No more than 300 words)
- Link to freebie/resource if you want to share (and also build up your email list)
- Permissions: to record sessions, we will be offering the recording for a donation to WATO, and post on social media.
No, we encourage the speakers to promote and share, but this is not a requirement. We understand that some organizations do not allow this. We are coming from the place of mutual benefit, and they more who know about the summit, the more we can come together to support our fellow neighorhoods.
The summit is August 6th and 7th.
We will start with a keynote/opening at 9am pacific, then a session at the top of each hour till noon (where we will do a fireside chat/lunch break). Then finish the day at 4pm. And the last session with a closing keynote. If you want to be a keynote speaker, please let us know.
This summit with be virtual. We request you have a strong wifi, camera, and microphone. You will be able to do a screen share or send over your presentation and we can click for you next slides.
We will have a tech production crew who will aid with the visual prodution elements (we/they use the software ecamm with zoom). We will also have an emcee for the event, and moderators for the chat during the session. We will also host a tech/QA session for the speakers and the tech team so everyone is comfortable going into this event. Our job is to make this easy for you to share your wisdom.
Anyone can sign up for a free admission ticket. However if they want to get a recording of the sessions (good for up to 6 months), then they need to give a donation of any amount to We Are The Others. If they want the highest level ticket ($97), that gives them the recording, plus access to the fireside chat. And again, these donations support We Are The Others.
We will be having a fireside chat during the lunch session. The idea is people who purchase an upgraded ticket can have a more personal interaction/act questions with the speakers, experts, or key people who can assist them. This is not required, but encouraged. The money that comes from this ticket upgrade goes to support the WATO nonprofit.
No, we do invite and encourage people to share a way people can stay engaged, join their email list, etc. for the organnization they are connected with.
Want to speak at the United Voices: Building Resilient Neighborhoods Summit?