Rainbow Resilience:
Advancing LGBTQ+ Wellbeing

A Brown School Professional Development Summit

Friday, March 28, and Saturday, March 29, 2025

Early Bird Price: $199 When You Register by December 20

General Admission Price: $595

The Rainbow Resilience Summit is a two-day interactive professional development event dedicated to the wellbeing of the LGBTQ+ community. Two tracks of workshops are offered: one focused on policy and advocacy, and the other on clinical mental health care. This gathering will bring together social workers, mental health practitioners, nonprofit leaders, policymakers, and advocates to strengthen the community’s health and empowerment.

Attendees will have the opportunity to engage in a range of hands-on workshops designed to equip them with the tools and strategies needed to foster resilience, promote equity, and drive social change, all through a lens of equity and intersectionality.

Register now to contribute to a collective effort toward a stronger, more just future for the LGBTQ+ community!

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.


Summit Sponsors

Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis
MSC 1196-0251-46 | 1 Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO 63130
brownprofdev@wustl.edu | (314) 935-7573