LWV Virginia Convention
June 13-15, 2025
 
2371 Carl D Silver Pkwy, Fredericksburg, VA 22401
Fredericksburg Convention Center,
 
Theme: Women Elect and Be Elected

Cost:

Cost $165 per person — includes two breakfasts, lunch, two breaks, Saturday night dinner.

Hotel:

The official hotel for the Convention is the Hilton Garden Inn: 1060 Hospitality Ln, Fredericksburg, VA 22401

The rate is $139 single, $149 double plus taxes. You can use this LINK to register: https://group.hiltongardeninn.com/fna3pk

Or call hotel reservations directly at 540-548-8822, and mention group code LOWV25 or League of Women Voters.

Hotel reservations close at 5p May 20, 2025.

The hotel is about three hundred feet from the convention center and easily walkable. However, the Convention Center offers free parking. Therefore, if you need to drive between the two, you will have no problem finding parking at the Convention Center.

Please note before you register for Convention.

The Convention is open to all members of LWV Virginia — BUT unless you have been designated as a voting delegate by your president do not check the box saying you are a delegate. Check with your local president if you want to be a delegate. You are not a delegate unless designated by your local president.

If you pay $165, your Saturday dinner ticket IS included. However, we are selling tickets for dinner to people who are not coming to the convention. So, you may bring a guest to dinner and that would be $55 more. Do NOT pay the $55 if you do not have a guest and are paying $165 already.

There is an OPTIONAL Tour at the end of Convention of the Fredericksburg Civil Rights Trail. There is an additional $25 fee if you want to take this tour.

You must register for Convention AND book your hotel room if you need one. Registering for Convention does not give you a hotel room unless you contact the hotel.

Use this link to register for the Convention: https://secure.everyaction.com/GIqR4B4lFkKTVGOotV8u5g2
Convention Registration closes June 2, 2025

 

Working Agenda
 

June 13, 2025 – Hilton Garden Inn Fredericksburg

4- 7 PM – Registration and dining information — Hilton Garden Inn

Dinner Trolley

6:30 PM – Pick up at the Hilton Garden Inn

Drop offs at two locations featuring the following restaurants:

First Drop off
Deutschland Downtown
Fahrenheit 132
La Petite Auberge
Mellow Mushroom
Rebellion Bourbon Bar
Sedona Taphouse
Ristorante Renato
Harry’s Ale House

Second Drop off
J Brians Tap Room
Bello Manzo
Sammy T’s

8:30 PM – Return to Hilton Garden Inn

June 14, 2025 – Fredericksburg Convention Center

8:00 — 11:00 AM — Registration Conference Center Lobby

8:00 — 9:00 AM — Breakfast Ballroom B and C

9:00 — Welcome Cathie Fisher Braman, LWV Fredericksburg Area, President

Ballrooms DEF

Kerry B Devine, Mayor of Fredericksburg

9:30 AM 12:30 PM — Plenary Session

11:00 AM — Break Conference Center Lobby

12:30 — 2:00 PM — Lunch Room B and C

Dr. Stephen Farnsworth, Mary Washington University

2:15 — 3:15 PM — Choice of three breakouts

a. Dr. Rosalyn Cooperman, Mary Washington University Encouraging Reluctant Voters Ballroom D

b. Michelle Moffit, Virginia Civic Engagement Center — Canvassing, Phone Banking — Reach People Where They Are Ballroom E

c. UN and Worldwide Efforts to Encourage Women in Office Ballroom F

3:15 — 3:30 PM — Break Conference Center Lobby

3:30 — 4:30 P — Transformation Update for all members Ballrooms B and C with Breakouts for Presidents, and Treasurers Rooms 1 ,2

Tracy Adkison, LWV VA Board Liaison to LWV US

Jane Newell, Strategic Transformation Coordinator, LWV VA

5:00 — 5:30 PM — Resolutions Committee Meeting – Room 1

5:30 PM — Dinner Ballroom B and C

6:30 — 7:30 PM – Showing of the Movie “Invisible Warriors: African American Women in WW II” and presentation by Director and Producer, Gregory Cooke

June 15, 2025 – Fredericksburg Convention Center

8:00 — 9:00 AM — Breakfast with a presentation on Legacy Donations for local leagues. Ballrooms B and C

9:00 AM — Gloria Custalow, Mattaponi Tribe Ballrooms DEF

9:30 — 12:00 PM — Plenary

Optional Tour – $25

12:30 PM — 2:00 PM — Civil Rights Tour of Fredericksburg — pick up at Hilton Garden Inn
https://civilrightstrail.com/attraction/the-city-of-fredericksburgs-civil-rights-trail/