Signature cohort events allow NextGen Civic Leader Corps participants to build their networks, engage with new ideas, and consider how others approach pressing social issues and cultural conversations. Events span varied categories, including direct service, network building, and social/cultural events. Many signature events are facilitated specifically for NextGen Civic Leader Corps members and offer direct connections with notable community leaders, public policy practitioners, and/or elected officials.
We ask program participants to attend at least two signature cohort events each academic year; these events are a great way to get started with the program and meet the advisors!
Winter quarter events (More will be posted, stay tuned!):
Monday, January 30, 4:00-6:00 PM, meet in front of Mary Gates Hall (North Entrance)
- Share a Meal with Tent City Residents: join us to deliver and enjoy a meal with residents of Tent City. We’ll plan to meet in front of Mary Gates Hall (feel free to drop off any belongings inside) and walk together to the Waterfront Activities Center, pick up meals and enjoy a dinner together with the Tent City community. Please RSVP here tinyurl.com/TentCityDinner
Saturday February 4th, 10:45am to 1:45pm Mary Gates Hall 171
- Networking Across NextGen: Networking can be tough, and requires taking steps outside the comfort zone, but can be rewarding. Join the UW NextGen program where we will dive into networking. This is designed to be a low-key event where we facilitate several activities to mix and mingle with other UW students in-person, chat about ways to build connections before switching over to virtual speed-networking with undergraduate students from across the country and learn about resources and opportunities.
- RSVP here to secure your spot: https://tinyurl.com/nextgenfeb4
Thursday, February 9th, 4:45pm to 8:00pm, meet at Mary Gates Hall 171
- Louder Than Words: Planning a City for an Equitable Future. Join the NextGen program for a conversation with Rico Quirindongo, acting director of the City of Seattle Office of Planning and Community Development.
- Event Description: Seattle is in the thick of building a plan for the Seattle of the next two generations. Where we will live and work, how we will move around and whether there will be any green left. The Seattle planning director describes how we can be the place of opportunity and equity despite – or thanks to learning from – past mistakes
- The NextGen Civic Leader Corps will host a dinner discussion for student attendees after the event.
- For those located near campus, let’s plan to meet up together at 4:45pm at Mary Gates Hall 171. We will then travel to the UW-Othello Commons via light rail as a group for the event and dinner discussion before leaving the Commons at 8:00p
- RSVP here: Louder Than Words Feb 9th RSVP
Friday, March 3rd, 2pm to 3pm, Parrington Hall, 320
- Meet and greet with Isabel Wilkerson: join the NextGen program for an exclusive meet and greet with Isabel Wilkerson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize winner and the National Humanities Medal, is the author of The New York Times bestsellers The Warmth of Other Suns and Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. A gifted storyteller, Wilkerson captivates audiences with the universal human story of migration and reinvention, as well as the unseen hierarchies that have divided us as a nation, in order to find a way to transcend them. She has become an impassioned voice for demonstrating how history can help us understand ourselves, our country and our current era of upheaval. In her writing, Wilkerson brings the invisible and the marginalized into the light and into our hearts. In her lectures, she explores with authority the need to reconcile America’s karmic racial inheritance — a notion she has expressed in her widely-shared Op-Ed essays in The New York Times.
- (Please note that spots are limited – a wait list will open if there is overwhelming interest).
- RSVP to secure your spot here: https://forms.office.com/r/si91iGtzk2
**more events to be announced