You’re on notice – get your feminist group excited about FMF’s 8th annual National Young Feminist Leadership Conference! The conference is the weekend of March 31- April 2, 2012 at the Hilton Crystal City in Arlington, VA, just outside of the nation’s capitol. Early online registration opens Monday, December 5 on our website, so get your head counts lined up this month!
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
The registration fee includes the weekend conference and Monday Capitol Hill Day.
Early Bird Registration begins December 5, 2011.
Registration fees link will be posted on feministcampus.org shortly.
The conference is your chance to meet 500 student activists from across the country, most of whom are leading their feminist groups on campus. Network with our speakers, who are feminist members of Congress, nonprofit leaders, doctors, lawyers, bloggers, and students! We’ll share the latest developments in feminist political activism around domestic and global women’s health, reproductive rights, voter participation, gender-based violence, and more. And we want you to be ready to share your tips with other activists for creating a hardcore feminist group on campus and beyond.
Workshops will be all day Saturday, March 31, and Sunday, April 1, and this will give you tons of info to bring to your members of Congress at our Capitol Hill visit day Monday, April 2. We are hard at work organizing workshops and inviting speakers, and will let you know as soon as we are able to start releasing the juicy details. But start planning the logistics for registration and getting to the DC area – look at transportation, lodging, and who your members of Congress are.
Past speakers have included:
- Eleanor Smeal, president of the Feminist Majority Foundation
- Tina Tchen, Exec. Director, White House Council on Women & Girls
- Secretary of US Department of Labor Hilda Solis
- Congresswoman Donna Edwards (MD) and Rep. Diane DeGette (CO)
- Dolores Huerta, Co-Founder, United Farm Workers
- Jehmu Greene, President, Women’s Media Center
- Megan Evans, National President, Medical Students for Choice
- and many more!
HOTEL INFORMATION
Hilton Crystal City
www.hilton.com/Crystal-City-VA
$129 for Single or Double Rate | $139 for Triple or Quad Rate
Call [703] 418-6800 and mention the Feminist Majority Foundation group. Standard rooms include 2 phone lines, dataport, coffee makers, hairdryer, iron, ironing board, Hilton alarm clock, and wireless high speed internet access.
Email campusteam@feminist.org or call our DC office at 703-522-2214 if you have any questions. See you there!
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