Circles

At ICPJ, a “circle” is a working group centered around a specific cause or purpose.

Circles can provide an opportunity for individual community members to find their role and act, as well as a place for partners from different efforts to come together and learn from one another, share information, and grow a mobilizing base.

Learn more about how circles function within ICPJ.

ICPJ’s programming circles are:

Last updated 10/1/26

• Care and Freedom Circle (tend to ICPJ’s work related to abolition, harm reduction, and reducing legal system involvement) – meets every other Monday, 2-3:15pm on Zoom.
  • Immigration (potential sub-circle)
• Capacity Building Circle (new; tend to ICPJ’s workshop and training facilitation offerings; build skills for facilitators; provide community conflict support)
  • Unlearning Whiteness (new sub-circle)
• Environmental Justice and Resiliency Circle (tend to ICPJ’s resiliency network hub work; advocate for how we can best be stewards for our natural resources; and focus on climate change mitigation) – meets on the first Wednesday of every month, 4-5:30pm at the Ypsilanti District Library Michigan Ave branch; option to join virtually
  • Caucus for Consumption, Waste, and the Climate Crisis (sub-circle; green congregations) – meets the third Wednesday of every month, 3-4:30pm on Zoom
• Healing-Centered Spaces Circle (new; tend to “those who do” and our Third Space collaborations)
• Interfaith Circle (new; tend to ICPJ’s congregational organizing; facilitate faith responses to injustice; amplify mobilization efforts across issue areas)
• VOTE Caucus (tend to ICPJ’s policy advocacy; support democratic practices, and fight voter suppression) – meets every other Wednesday, 11:30am-12:30pm on Zoom
  • Antifa (potential sub-circle)

We also have our Governance Circle, which which is composed of three other circles:

• Compliance Circle
• Mission Circle
• General Circle