The Women’s Summit is turning 10

We’re celebrating a decade of grassroots activism, leadership, community, and victories that helped shape Virginia's political landscape.

Today, the Women’s Summit is more than a conference. It is a grassroots activism festival, leadership summit, movement gathering, training hub, and community-powered experience designed to help people build power together.

At a time when democracy, voting rights, and fundamental freedoms face unprecedented challenges, the Women’s Summit remains a place where people come to learn, organize, recharge, connect, celebrate, and prepare for the work ahead.It’s a place where you find your people. And leave with new ideas, new skills, new friendships, renewed purpose, and the energy to keep going.

Because hope isn't something we wait for. Hope is something we build together. When we work together, we win. And winning means building a more just, inclusive, and democratic future for everyone.

PROGRAM

FRIDAY, AUGUST 21

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Friday is about community, candidates, coalition-building, and collaboration. We start in the afternoon with workshops and networking opportunities and then move into our evening program. This is where activists, elected officials, advocacy organizations, campaigns, and community leaders come together to build relationships and discover new opportunities for collaboration.

When we show up for each other, we win.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 22

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Saturday is dedicated to inspiration, leadership development, learning, and movement-building.

The day begins with our Main Stage Kickoff featuring powerful speakers, organizers, storytellers, and the Friday Power Lunch LIVE.

Saturday afternoon, we're doing something bold. We're launching our MasterClass series — and this is not your typical sit-and-listen situation. Grassroots organizers already know the old playbook isn't working. So each session takes a big idea and gets real about how we actually put it into practice — our way, on our terms.

Then the evening is full of networking, music, and community connection.

SUNDAY, AUGUST 23

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Sunday turns inspiration into action.

The morning features organizing conversations, breakout sessions, networking opportunities, and our Candidate & Campaign Training Hub designed to support current and future candidates, campaign teams, organizers, and movement leaders.

The weekend concludes with our signature BADASS BRUNCH.

We’ll celebrate ten years of grassroots activism, honor the people who helped build this movement, and look ahead to the opportunities and challenges before us.

SHOP ★ LIVE ★ VOTE
Your Values Expo

Friday & Saturday

What if your shopping, your community, and your activism all pointed in the same direction?

That's the idea behind this year’s SHOP ★ LIVE ★ VOTE Your Values Expo. We’re weaving a curated marketplace and advocacy space into the heart of the Women's Summit, where values-aligned businesses, grassroots organizations, makers, authors, and advocates connect with the people who need them most.

Democracy isn't only shaped at the ballot box — it's shaped by how we live, where we gather, and who we choose to support.

Craftivism & Gratitude Garden

SATURDAY ONLY

Step Outside. Make Something. The Garden is waiting for you.

On Saturday, enjoy a garden full of craft making just waiting to happen. This is your creative escape: a living, breathing space where your activist energy gets to take shape in the most beautiful way. Fold it, stitch it, paint it, bloom it. Paper crafts, needle crafts, watercolors, paper flowers.
Pull up a chair. Feel the breeze. Let your hands do the talking of messages of action, hope, and resilience.

No agenda. No pressure. Just you, some supplies, and a little patch of green.

SPONSOR THE BIG TEN WOMEN’S SUMMIT

This is where the grassroots gathers.

The BIG TEN Women’s Summit offers meaningful opportunities for organizations, businesses, advocacy groups, unions, creators, campaigns, and community partners to connect with one of the region’s most energized and civically engaged audiences through sponsorships, branded experiences, Expo opportunities, digital engagement, community partnerships, and immersive Summit activations.

Whether you want to support grassroots organizing, align your brand with democratic values, sponsor a signature Summit experience, connect directly with attendees, or build a custom collaboration, there are many ways to participate in this milestone year.

Because the strongest partnerships are not simply seen. They are experienced.

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