At Graduate Tacoma’s inaugural Charting Our Future conference, we are taking the work of a community-wide movement of youth advocates to the next level. As with all Graduate Tacoma events, we will build on our ability to connect across professions, lived experiences, and a shared vision for a Tacoma where every child succeeds in school, career, and life.

Still, we are in a new and essential age where connecting is just a start.

Our future depends on the action we take together now. Part leadership, part peer-learning conference: we will consider data transparency, youth activism, and working across sectors to support student success—after a year of remote learning.