Our first Agora - A week from Today!
Register for our first Agora on May 26th at 12 pm ET — (Free for all subscribers and members)
Most professional development gives you more information. The Agora is designed to create better conversations. If you’re tired of passively consuming ideas and want to actively discuss where engagement work is headed alongside other practitioners, join us on May 26.
What the Agora Is
The Agora is our live gathering space. But it’s not another webinar.
Each session is designed to do two things:
A TED-style talk from a practitioner about a big idea
Create meaningful connection around it through small group discussion
We start with a 15–20 minute presentation
Then we shift into 40–45 minutes of active conversation. You’ll be placed into small, rotating groups to talk, react, and connect.
From Identity to Infrastructure: Building “Miner Nation” at UTEP with Alumni Storytellers
Speaker: Sydney Bertram, Assistant Vice President for Strategic Communications and Engagement
In this session, we’ll explore how the University of Texas at El Paso built Miner Nation as a unifying engagement framework that connects students, alumni, and supporters through shared pride and purpose.
Sydney will unpack how alumni “contributors,” operating like freelancers, have strengthened Advancement communications by expanding digital touchpoints and content creation. More importantly, she’ll show how scalable participation models —and Miner Nation Contributors (MNCs) with donor experience — are turning affinity into sustained engagement, and ultimately, into pipeline.