On behalf of our team at Campus Progress, I want to thank everyone who made our fourth annual Campus Progress National Conference a success: our USSA-US PIRG-Campus Progress Grassroots Training Day; the advance screening of the new HBO series “Generation Kill” with David Simon and HBO; the main conference day, with John Edwards, Ryan Gosling, Keith Ellison, Linda Sanchez, Julian Bond, M-1, Ted Leo, and many others (you can watch the morning session courtesy of CSPAN); the Capitol Hill lobby day on climate and economic issues; and, finally, the Campus Progress/ The Nation National Youth Journalism Conference, with speakers including Seymour Hersh, Katrina vanden Heuvel, David Corn, and Asra Nomani. 

See our conference press page to see what people are saying already.  We’ll post photos, videos, and more press coverage soon.

With every national conference I sense that we are building a real community of young people and organizations who return each year, while also bringing in a diverse array of new people.

On a sad note, just as our first conference attendees were arriving Tuesday morning, a young recent college graduate, biking to her job at a DC international education nonprofit, was killed on the road after colliding with a truck.  In my own remarks at the conference, I talked about the injury I received at the hands of a vehicle while biking to work in DC two months ago.  I did not know at the time that Alice Swanson had died two hours earlier, just a mile from our conference venue.  Our hearts go out to her parents, Brian Swanson and Ruth Rowan of Northborough, MA.  As I said in my remarks, I hope we can all work to make our communities safer for biking.  Let's do that for Alice Swanson, for my late friend David Baer, and for all of us.