Uplifters Live 2026

Uplifters Live 2026: Creating The Future - Ideas, clarity, and connections to move you forward

About this Event

You're doing big, brave things. But midlife requires different courage and you need to be in the room with women who understand that.

You're a purpose-driven woman leader who's done with surface-level networking. You want real conversations with women who've already made bold moves and are still making them. You want to be around people who lift each other up instead of positioning and performing.

And you're ready to create the future you actually want to live in, whether that's your next chapter, expanding what you've already built, or changing the world.

In one unforgettable day:

You'll hear Mahogany L. Browne, Lincoln Center's poet laureate, on pivoting with power and using your voice to move communities.

You'll sit in on an unfiltered conversation with three investors, Lorine Pendleton, Katie Cella, and Sarah Kauss about accessing capital, becoming an investor yourself, and funding what you believe in.

You'll learn from lightning talks by the most compelling voices from the Uplifters Podcast.

You'll tell your story in a room that actually listens. You'll have lunch with women at tables organized around the topics that matter to you right now.

This isn't inspiration you'll forget by Tuesday. This is the ideas, clarity, and connections that actually move you forward.

Best of all, your ticket creates the future for others by supporting 826 NYC and WorkOnward Foundation.

Your ticket includes lunch catered by Mista Oh.

TICKETS

- Price: $175

- Includes full-day program and lunch

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Agenda


🕑: 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Doors Open

Info: Coffee, pastries, connections

🕑: 10:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Welcome

🕑: 10:45 AM - 11:00 AM
Sound Bath

Info: Shayla Martin

🕑: 11:00 AM - 11:15 AM
The Gifts of Being Yourself

Info: Claude Silver, Chief Heart Officer at VaynerX

🕑: 11:15 AM - 12:05 PM
Lightning Talks

Info: Adena Artale, Holly St John Peck, Dina Berrin, Tracy Keibler, Rachel Lipson, Katie Horwitch, Shannon Russell, Ruthie Ackerman, Sonya Weisshappel, Dr Kim Derezil

🕑: 12:05 PM - 12:30 PM
Write Your Story Workshop

Info: Hosted by 826NYC

🕑: 12:30 PM - 02:00 PM
Connection & Lunch

Info: Catered by Mistah Oh at themed conversation tables featuring guests from the most popular Uplifters episodes

🕑: 02:00 PM - 02:30 PM
Women as Investors - Funding the Future We Want

Info: Lorine Pendleton, Founding Partner, 125 Ventures;

Katie Cella, Venture Partner, Koru Capital and Mindshift Capital;

Sarah Kauss, Investor, Advisor, Founder of S'well

🕑: 02:30 PM - 02:45 PM
Turn Shame Into Your Superpower

Info: Melissa Petro, Author of Shame on You: How to Be a Woman in the Age of Mortification

🕑: 02:45 PM - 03:00 PM
Improving the Relationship With Yourself

Info: Sarah Gormley, Author of The Order of Things

🕑: 03:15 PM - 03:35 PM
Keynote: Dreaming Loudly

Info: Mahogany L. Browne, the Poet Laureate of Lincoln Center, a Kennedy Center Next 50 Fellow, and founder of the Woke Baby Book Fair. Her poetry collection Chrome Valley won the 2024 Paterson Poetry Prize, and her young adult novel A Bird in the Air Means We Can Still Breathe was longlisted for the National Book Award. An Emmy nominee, NAACP Image Award nominee, and recipient of Princeton's Holmes National Poetry Prize, Browne's work, including the frequently challenged Woke: A Young Poet's Call to Justice, uses literary arts to move communities and reimagine the future.

🕑: 03:35 PM - 04:00 PM
Future Vision & Closing

🕑: 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Cash Bar & Continued Connection

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