The organizers created the project as one of twelve (12) site-specific workshops at Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life. The conference was held in Baltimore from September 30th through October 3rd and was planned and facilitated by dozens of community partnerships, including arts and theatre organizations, Baltimore institutions, museums, performance spaces, and the three hosting campuses UMBC, Morgan State University, and Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). Approximately 400 people from universities, colleges, and communities around the country (with some international) were officially registered for the conference, and the site-specific workshops were open to the public.