This event is presented by the Brown School at Washington University
# About this Event
The Rainbow Resilience Summit is a 2-day interactive professional development event dedicated to the wellbeing of the LGBTQ+ community. This gathering will bring together social workers, mental health practitioners, nonprofit leaders, policymakers, and advocates to strengthen the community’s health and empowerment and equip participants with the tools and strategies needed to foster resilience, promote equity, and drive social change, all through a lens of equity and intersectionality.
- Participate in your choice of hands-on courses across two tracks—develop your policy and advocacy skillset, explore the latest in clinical mental healthcare, or mix-and-match to fit your needs.
- Join Special Guest Chasity Valentino for Voices of Resilience: Performance, Lived Experience, and the Fight for Trans Rights
- Network with colleagues and community members from near and far as you foster resilience, build frameworks for change, and share meals together—registration includes breakfast and lunch on both days as well as a wine and appetizer reception on Friday evening.
Early Bird rate of $199 USD is available until December 20. General admission is $595 USD.
# Keynote Speaker: Charles M. Blow
Charles M. Blow’s columns in The New York Times, tackle hot-button issues such as social justice, racial equality, LGBTQ issues and national politics. Blow is an MSNBC political analyst and has been the anchor of PRIME with Charles Blow on the Black News Channel and a CNN commentator.
Mr. Blow is the author of New York Times bestselling books “Fire Shut Up in My Bones” and “The Devil You Know.” “Fire...” has been developed into an opera, the first by a Black composer to premiere at the Metropolitan Opera. “The Devil...” has been developed into a feature-length documentary that will air later this year on HBO.