Student Leadership Conference
Join us for an inspiring journey of discovery, learning, community and joy at the 2027 San Francisco Student Leadership Conference! In March 2025, high school student leaders and educators teamed up to Redefine Community Through Action. It was a blast! And in 2026, we added our next innovation—bringing high school student leaders, middle school students and educators together to Redefine Community Through Culture.
In 2027 get ready for exciting and engaging workshops, activities, new connections, and endless creativity as we celebrate leadership, community and joy. Together we make a difference!
At the conference, you will:
• Make new connections and build cross-school networks
• Dialogue with students and adults about important issues in your school community
• Develop an action plan with your school cohort
• Participate in fun breakout groups and affinity spaces
• Build your confidence, sense of belonging, facilitation skills, and leadership capacity
Complete the 2027 SLC Interest Form below to receive information, updates and registration information for the upcoming conference.
If you have any questions, please email SLC@sfwaldorf.org. We look forward to welcoming you to a day of reflection, inspiration, and action!
Sponsorships
School Sponsors
Sponsorship gives schools the ability to send a large delegation and other perks such as:
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Send a student cohort to a student facilitator training on Zoom prior to the conference (high schools) where they skills in facilitating a conversation group
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Receive recognition in conference publicity materials, social media posts, and event signage
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Sponsor an event space or activity at the conference, such as affinity group spaces, creativity activity or quiet space sponsor
School sponsorship is $5000 per school and includes all the perks above in addition to sending a delegation to the conference (10 middle-school students or 10 high-school students and two adult chaperones to the conference).
Click the "Become a Sponsor" button below to register as a school sponsor.
Business and Community Sponsors
Support young people and raise your organization's visibility! Sponsoring SLC builds visibility for your brand, connects you with schools and educators, and gives you an opportunity to share your organization’s support of the next generation.
Click the button below to see the sponsorship levels and what perks they include. The sponsorships range from $500-$25,000.
A look back at the Inaugural 2026 Conference
2026 Keynote Speakers:
Patrick Camangian, PhD is a professor of Teacher Education at the University of San Francisco. Patrick’s interdisciplinary research on humanizing education intersects critical and culturally relevant pedagogy, critical literacy, and health science research. Patrick pursues these areas of research to improve teacher quality, capacity, and retention, as well as to inform policies and practices impacting urban schools and communities. He has been working in schools since 1997, continuing in the tradition of teacher action research, applying cutting-edge pedagogies in schools, and more recently, informing district-wide policy and practice through social design research and collaborations in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Austin Willacy is all about connections: connecting people across social and political divides, connecting audiences with new forms of music and art, and connecting local inequalities to broader systems of injustice. Through song, dialogue, and play, Austin helps communities ‘connect the dots’ between theory and practice, conflict and peace, ecology and culture. He has served as a facilitator in places like Turkey, India, and Israel and Palestine, using his unique blend of activism and musicianship to inspire relationship-building and collaborative action.
A look back at the Inaugural 2025 Conference
2025 Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Eghosa Obaizamomwan-Hamilton is a Black mother, scholar, and Clinical Associate in Stanford’s Teacher Education Program (STEP). She is the co-founder of Making Us Matter and a co-founding editor of The Black Educology Mixtape (Journal), a collective dedicated to advancing transformative education and promoting liberation and visibility for Black communities. Her scholarship focuses on the construction of interlocking identities by investigating the intersections of race, identity, and education. She has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as Harvard Educational Review, Equity & Excellence in Education, and Race Ethnicity and Education. Her current work centers Black educational studies, Black methodologies, and critical pedagogy. With over 16 years of experience in education, her writing, teaching, and research meet at the intersections.
