Please join us in Washington, D.C. on November 19, 2025 for our 19th Collective Brunch and Learn: Leading Out Loud. This Brunch & Learn, exclusively for 19th Collective Members, will be a masterclass in lifting your voice — and lifting each other. In a space designed for reflection, skill building, and shared experience, we’ll explore presence, storytelling, and claiming space as women in public life. Over good food and candid conversation, we’ll pause to connect, practice, and encourage one another — leaving with deeper relationships and practical tools to carry our voices with authenticity, courage, and value.

If you would like to arrive early, you are more than welcome to join the 2025 Futures Thinking Forum on November 17-18 and our 9th annual Rising Star Awards on November 18.

Futures Thinking Forum (optional) – Join your peers at the 2025 Futures Thinking Forum November 17–18 for two days of strategy, collaboration, and practical tools to shape your capstone projects and future legislative work. The Forum will deepen your fluency with foresight and evidence-based budgeting, and give you structured time to sharpen your 2026 legislative plans with bipartisan partners. You’ll leave with clear next steps, a partner to check in with, and a stronger foundation for advancing your capstone project in the upcoming session.

Rising Star Awards (optional)- On November 18th, we’ll come together to celebrate the next generation of leadership at the 2025 Rising Star Awards. This year’s program will honor outstanding changemakers with the Rising Star Award, the Cherisse Eatmon Collective Impact Award, the Generational Changemaker Award, and the Jacob K. Javits Prize for Bipartisan Leadership.

If you have questions, contact Dr. Nekkita Beans at [email protected].