This year's Empowerment Congress features a session focused on Social Justice through the Arts. Session presenters include Laura Zucker (LA County Arts Commission), Guillermo Aviles-Rodriguez (Watts Village Theater Company), Brooke Davis Anderson (LACMA), and Susan Anderson (UCLA Library Special Collections).

Applications are now open for Los Angeles County nonprofit arts organizations to hire summer interns.  The deadline to apply is December 15.  There is a free workshop scheduled for November 18.