Started in 2016, the KAGC U Annual Leadership Summit is a 3-day conference in Washington D.C. that will take place from Wednesday, January 8 to Friday, January 10, 2025. The Leadership Summit will develop civic leadership capacity in the next generation of Korean American grassroots leaders.

The summit is a special opportunity for undergraduate students to meet with fellow Korean Americans to exchange shared experiences that can motivate and drive policy changes to address the social, political, and economic issues facing their community. Sessions include civic education workshops, meetings with Korean American congressional leaders and Members of Congress, and developing action plans to promote civic engagement on their campuses. This year, attendees will also have the exclusive privilege to attend a special Korean American Day celebration on Capitol Hill.

Since space is limited, participants will be selected through an application process. Typically, no more than two students are accepted per school with exceptions.

Program

The program entails civic education workshops that are designed to help students translate their ideas and words into impactful and effective actions

Schools Represented in Past Leadership Summits

Since 2016, KAGC U has worked with over 2,000 Korean American undergraduate students at 131 universities in civic empowerment, civic education and civic advocacy. We hope to build upon this amazing cohort with student leaders like yourself.

• Amherst College
• American University
• Bergen Community College
• Brandeis University
• Brown University
• University at Buffalo
• UC Berkeley
• Cal Poly Pomona
• Carnegie Mellon University
• Case Western Reserve University
• University of Chicago
• Clark University
• University of Colorado at Boulder
• University of Colorado at Denver
• Columbia University
• The Cooper Union
• Cornell University
• Dartmouth College
• Emory University
• Fordham University
• George Mason University
• Georgetown University
• George Washington University
• Georgia Institute of Technology
• Harvard University
• CUNY Hunter
• UC Irvine
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
• Johns Hopkins University

• UCLA
• University of Michigan
• Mount Holyoke College
• US Naval Academy
• New York University
• UNC
• Northwestern University
• Ohio State University
• University of Pennsylvania
• Pepperdine University
• Portland State University
• Princeton University
• Rice University
• UC Riverside
• Rutgers University
• Santa Barbara, UC
• USC
• School of Visual Arts
• Smith College
• Stanford University
• Stony Brook University
• SUNY Buffalo
• University of Texas at Austin
• Texas A&M University
• UC San Diego
• University of Rochester
• Virginia Tech
• University of Virginia
• University of Washington
• Washington University in St. Louis
• Wellesley College
• Yale University
• and so many more!

Explore our college student programs in detail on the KAGC U page.

Stay connected with us on Facebook and Instagram to view event photos and receive updates. Should you have any questions, please reach us by email at info@kagc.us or our office at (202) 450-4252. We extend our heartfelt thanks to our friends on Capitol Hill and supporters nationwide for making this event possible.