Since 2015, BlackSpace Urbanist Collective, an interdisciplinary collective of urban planners, architects and designers, has worked to bridge policy, people, and place with a mission of equity and justice in the built environment. The group collaborates to create new modes of work that center equity and support conservation in Black communities. BlackSpace strives to unlearn traditional modes of urbanism, which have long excluded marginalized voices. The organization will speak about their influential BlackSpace Manifesto, which was created to guide their work as urbanists working in and with communities.