Fall Bonner Congress 2025
Engage Now for Our Shared Humanity!
October 10-12, 2025 at Loyola University
Retreat and Ecology Center
Woodstock, IL
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Full Program
Opening Session
During the opening session, we reflected on our experiences and values and how we choose to show up in and contribute within our campuses and communities at this time. Uplifting our theme, “Engage Now for Our Shared Humanity, we had the chance to engage in dialogue to express, listen to, and connect with others in our national Bonner Network through a four corners activity.
Engaged Now: Opening Session
Strategy Sessions
Strategy Session #1: Student Leadership in Bonner and Beyond
In this track, Students engaged in reflecting on and mapping out their Bonner Leadership Team, including its roles in supporting the Bonner Program and campus-wide engagement. They walked away with an action plan for next steps over 30 • 60 • 90 days. Students from the same campus teams were encouraged to work together in these clusters.
Strategy Session #2: Purpose to Paycheck
Students engaged in reflecting on their career aspirations and their ability to articulate how they draw their connections between different experience as a Bonner. Students walked away with an action plan for their individual plan and for their program's next steps over 30 • 60 • 90 days.
Career Connections & Alumni Networking
Career Connections and Alumni Networking
Meet, Mingle, Move: An Hour with Bonner Alumni
Elective Workshops
Creating Leadership Opportunities in Your Bonner Leadership Team
Facilitated By Carter Ratcliff, Davidson College
Everything You Want to Know About Applying to Grad School
Facilitated By Shaina Peterson, Washington University in St. Louis
SLIDES HANDOUT
MSW HANDOUT MSP HANDOUT
Excelling in Service: Building Inclusive Teams that Sustain Change
Facilitated by Mam-Mary Fatima SarrFox, Berea College
Owning Your Program: Leading with Impact
Facilitated by Rebekah Lama and Victoria Annunziata, Rider University
SLIDES HANDOUT
Co-Creating Gen Z’s Role in the US 250th
Facilitated by Halle Gensler, Berea College Alum
Next Steps: Designing Your Post-Bonner Service Plan
Facilitated by Lauren Sermersheim, Mars Hill Alum and Clinton School of Public Service
SLIDES HANDOUT
Nurturing Communal Care: “The Obie Needs Closet
Facilitated by Amanda Cabrera, Oberlin College
Streamlining Bonner Alumni Engagement
Facilitated by Lilly Watkins and Kate Evans, Centre College
