#UjimaWednesdays | Who We Are with Working Families Party | March 12, 2025

Power, Transformation, and Miracles: Ujima Power Project

The 2025 Ujima Wednesdays Workshop Series theme: Power, Transformation, and Miracles: Ujima Power Project and the programs dedicated to it explore the tension and nuances that power inspires, posing questions about the metaphorical, political, and social dimensions of power. Power, Transformation, and Miracles: Ujima Power Project  examines power as a concept with concrete, material consequences. This workshop series is dedicated to exploring the collective power of communities to transform ourselves and the systems that shape our lives. How is power enacted and performed across histories and institutions? Who holds power, and who resists or rejects its use? How do we reclaim, redistribute, or shift power, and is it ever enough? Can power bring us closer to justice, to liberation, to a more equitable society? How do we learn through power? What are we empowering, and by what measures? When does a shift in power lead to true transformation, to revolution? Understanding these types of power —and the pillars of support that sustain existing systems— can help us become weapons of mass construction. 

Event Description:

Join for Who We Are with Yaye Amtyh Osunbunmi Asili, the Working Families Party Director of Radical Education. This session introduces the Working Families Party (WFP), their theory of change, and how they build power. Yaye will explore the political system, the role of elections, and the function of campaigns within broader movement-building. Participants will gain insight into WFP’s approach to organizing, their definition of a party, and how they use elections as a tool for transformative change. This is the first in a three-part series, with future sessions focusing on campaigns and featuring local WFP elected officials.

Facilitator Bio:

Yaye Amtyh Osunbunmi Asili (Bunmi) is a seasoned trainer, empowerment facilitator, liberatory curriculum designer, and cultural organizer who approaches organizing through a spiritual-political healing lens. With decades of experience, she creates transformative learning spaces that bridge political strategy, cultural grounding, and community organizing.She is also a Mother, Empowerment Alchemist, Freedom Organizer, M.C., Traditional West African Dance Student/Instructor, Public Speaker, Healer, and Business Consultant specializing in supporting infrastructure for goods and services that heal, restore, and elevate.

A Howard University alum, she earned degrees in Black Political Science and Africana Studies, with double minors in African and African American Psychology. She trained as an organizer with the Center for Third World Organizing and has worked on campaigns addressing systemic violence, education reform, and labor rights. Yaye Amtyh has designed and facilitated training for organizations including Communications Workers of America, the Working Families Party, Rising Majority, and Urban Equity Consulting Group. She specializes in conflict resolution, power-building, cultural-political education, and movement-centered leadership development.

At WFP, she serves as the National Director of Radical Education, embedding facilitation and training into the party’s organizing strategy to deepen political consciousness and build collective power. Her role at WFP enables her to support transformative education within a national political movement, ensuring that those most impacted by injustice are supported to lead real change.