13th Annual First Gen Summit
November 8th, 2025
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Submit a Presenter Proposal Today!
We would love to see you speak or present at our 2025 First Gen Leadership Summit. Submit your 45-minute workshop or 10-minute lightning talk proposal today to share your knowledge and build valuable professional development skills. As a presenter, you will:
- Gain meaningful public speaking and presentation experience
- Exchange thoughts and ideas with your peers
- Develop strategies to bring home to your campus
- Become part of a thriving network of first-generation college students
A Place to be Inspired & Inspire Others!
The First Gen Summit serves as a site for the meeting of the minds. First-gen students and their allies come together to identify problems, discuss grassroots solutions, and share what’s working on their campuses. First and foremost, we want to find solutions identified by students who can work with their staff, administrators, and faculty allies to create change. First Gen Leadership offers spaces where students can both identify these problems and build grassroots solutions to them.
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Join our Ambassadors Team
The First Gen Summit ambassadors program is open to any first generation college student who would like to build momentum around their school participating in or attending the First Gen Summit. Click below to learn more about the opportunity and to apply for our ambassador team.
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Join our Mailing List
To keep up to date about the Summit, join our mailing list, where you can learn about submitting workshops, registration deadlines, and announcements about keynote speakers.
Become a Sponsor
Sponsoring organizations and businesses make it possible for the summit to remain free for all students. Email [email protected] if you are interested in sponsoring.
Our Summit Story
Adj Marshall envisioned the First Gen Summit in the fall of 2012 as a place for first-generation college students to come together to define and design new ways of viewing the First Gen label in contrast to the generally applied deficit lens. The very first Summit was held in the Spring of 2013 with just 40 attendees. Today, the First Gen Summit brings together 200-300 students and allies each year annually.
Since 2012 First Gen Leadership has worked with first-generation students through consultations and workshops at many campuses throughout the country. First Gen Leadership has offered First Gen students access to the materials, tools, and networking opportunities necessary to thrive in a college environment and beyond. First Gen Leadership also works with campus faculty, staff, and administrations to identify obstacles to First Gen and low-income students.
Say Hello To Our Speakers
We couldn't be more excited about our current set of speakers. We look forward to adding more!
Thank you to our incredible sponsors!
