Power 100 Students

Every year, ONE flies the leaders of the top 100 Campus Challenge schools to an elite 3-day conference in Washington, DC. There, students will hear from top members of the global poverty movement, meet ONE staff, and of course, get to network with 99 of the nation's most motivated student advocates for ONE.

This year's Power 100 Summit begins with a meet-and-greet at the Washington Plaza Hotel on Friday, February 6th, features inspiring speakers, intense advocacy training, panel discussions and networking at George Washington University over the weekend, and culminates in a day on Capitol Hill for Congressional office visits on Monday, February 9th.

2009 Featured Speakers and Panelists:

Jake Sasseville Host, "The Edge with Jake Sasseville"
Sally Canfield Senior Program Officer, Global Health Division of The Gates Foundation
Jim Kolbe Senior Transatlantic Fellow, German Marshall Fund of the United States
Jonathan Martin Senior Political Writer, Politico
Amy Walter Editor-in-Chief, Hotline
Charlie Hurt Washington Bureau Chief, New York Post
Lauren Bush and Ellen Gustafson The FEED Project
Fred and Milton Ochieng, Caitlin Reiner Lwala Community Alliance
Peter Pham Director of the Nelson Institute for International and Public Affairs, James Madison University
Steve Morrison Senior Vice President, Center for Strategic & International Studies
Sadia Hameed Organizer for Extractive Industries, OXFAM International
Ambassador Mark Green Former Ambassador to Tanzania and Director of the Policy Center at Malaria No More
Gawain Kripke OXFAM
Patrick Schmitt STAND
Michael Gerson Council on Foreign Relations
Toby Tanser Shoe4Africa

Featured Panel and Speaker Topics:

- Transition to the Obama Administration
- Development Policy in the New Administration
- Media Inside the Beltway
- FEED Project
- Health Issues in the Developing World
- Education in the Developing World
- Poverty and US National Security
- Student Organizing
- Africa Rising
- Agriculture and Trade in the Developing World
- Media and New Media
- Event Building
- Lobbying Brief
- NGOs on the Ground in Africa

It will be educational. It will be inspiring. It will exhausting. And we wouldn't have it any other way.