Frequently Asked Questions

The Women’s Convention is a weekend of workshops, strategy sessions, inspiring forums, creative expression, and intersectional movement building. It will be a place where cause, community, and creativity intersect. We will provide a space where people can meet, share common interests, and engage on issues of civic engagement, accelerated by pop culture. We will engage activists by melding traditional organizing programming with non-traditional programming, including salons, art spaces, screenings, social programming, and women’s workforce development.

This convention will leverage the power of culture shift through skilling up and storytelling to create an empowered space of feminist momentum. This event will mobilize and unite movements for gender justice, racial justice, LGBTQ rights, and environmental justice and bring thousands of participants to combine activism and creative expression among everyday people.

The Women’s Convention will run from Friday, October 20, to Sunday, October 22, 2023. The location is the Baird Center in Milwaukee, WI.

Early to the Party Diva: $300, Limited amount of early bird tickets are available until August 31 11:30PM CT. Saves $50 off the general admissions ticket.

Early to the Party Sisterhood Special: $550+, Allows you to buy two or more tickets, each discounted to $275, with a minimum 2 ticket purchase ($550). There are a limited amount of these tickets available until August 31 11:30PM CT.

Feminist Force: $350, General Admissions, Will be available starting on September 1.

Feminist Force Sisterhood Special: $650+, Allows you to buy two or more tickets, each discounted to $325, with a minimum 2 ticket purchase ($650). Saves $25 off the general admissions ticket. These tickets will be available starting on September 1.

Home Grown Feminist: $125, Available to movement community, youth (13-18) & students, seniors, and individuals with fixed incomes.
Minors' Attendance:
• An adult must accompany all minors. • Guardians will be required to sign a waiver for any attendee under 18.
• Copies of the waiver will be provided at the registration desk for guardians of minors to sign on-site.

Essential Workers: $150, Available to those who work tirelessly to keep our communities safe, healthy, and functioning)

Solidarity Registration: $475, General admission into the Women's Convention, and covers the costs for an additional ticket for a scholarship recipient.

Future Feminist: Free (Children 12 and younger) Minors' Attendance:
• An adult must accompany all minors.
• Guardians will be required to sign a waiver for any attendee under 18.
• Copies of the waiver will be provided at the registration desk for guardians of minors to sign on-site.

Institutional Registration: $555, if your employer is paying for your registration, and they are able, please register at this level.

At the Women's Convention, we believe in inclusivity, and that means all children are welcome! In fact, it wouldn't be a true feminist event without a baby (or 20) in the mix!

Ticket Information

• Children aged 12 and younger can attend the Women’s Convention for free.

• Youth aged 13 and up can attend for the discounted fee of $125 with the Home Grown Feminist Ticket.

Please note that all minors under 18 must have a ticket, even those attending for free. You can register and purchase tickets here.

Minors' Attendance

• An adult must accompany minors 15 and younger and sign a waiver that will be provided at the registration booth.

• 16-17-year-olds may attend alone with a waiver that MUST be signed in advance by their parent or guardian and presented at registration with their ticket. Ticket buyers will receive an email in advance to complete this process.

If you're in need of childcare during the event, we've got recommendations! Here are some top-rated childcare providers within a 15-minute radius of our venue that are open on weekends:

A Mother's Helping Hand

Distance: 15-minute walk or 5-minute drive
Reviews: Highly rated, best reviewed in the area
Website: A Mother's Helping Hand

Gates Family Daycare
Distance: Short drive
Reviews: Good reviews
Website: Gates Family Daycare

Angela's Lil Angels
Distance: 15-minute walk or short drive
Reviews: Good reviews, higher capacity available
Website: Angela's Lil Angels

Please remember to contact these providers directly to confirm cost, availability, and any specific needs you may have.

The Women's Convention strives to be accessible to women and allies regardless of economic barriers. We wish we could make the event less for everyone, but the prices we are offering are necessary to cover the cost of the conference. The Women’s Convention aims to award scholarships, ranging from waived admission to full travel and accommodations. Donate to our scholarship fund here or donate when your purchase your ticket. If you're interested in getting more information about scholarships please click here.

We’re continuing to build on the success of the 2022 Women’s Convention by hosting it in Wisconsin for 2023 & 2024.

Wisconsin is a vitally important state in 2024. Referred to as the incubator for our country’s tribal politics, many pundits think that Wisconsin is one of the states that will be both a deciding factor in the 2024 Presidential election and one that demonstrates the deep polarization that characterizes U.S. politics. With strong organizing, Wisconsin is flippable and Women’s March has the ability to make an impact on the outcome of the election.

Women’s March has been making strategic interventions in Wisconsin since 2022, through both mobilizations and electoral strategies. The Women’s Convention will continue that investment with those women and communities who are the backbone and future of Wisconsin. We know that Women’s March belongs to our marchers and that they are the ones that make a change in whatever place they call home. We can support, connect, and amplify what they are doing and can do in their own backyards.

The Women’s Convention will bring together over a thousand everyday women activists, allies, movement leaders, rising political stars that reflect our nation’s changing demographics, and thousands of new grassroots leaders who’ve organized in their communities and taken to the streets since January 2017. We hope to make this one of the largest convenings of its kind, and a unique opportunity for everyday women and our allies—from all backgrounds, and experiences—to learn together, share expertise, and unite around collective goals and strategies.

We are developing a program of workshops, strategy sessions, inspiring forums, and intersectional movement building based on the input, ideas, and efforts of organizers from our grassroots movements. Attendees—regardless of prior experience—can expect to be inspired, challenged, connected, and educated. The goal of the Women’s Convention is for participants to leave inspired and motivated, with new connections, skills, and strategies for working towards a collective feminist future. Check out our latest agenda here.

Women's March has reserved a limited block of rooms specifically for convention attendees.

Hilton Milwaukee City Center (Host Hotel): Located in the heart of downtown Milwaukee at 509 W Wisconsin Ave, this elegant, refined hotel offers incredible views of the city. Rooms are available at a special convention rate of $199 per night. Click here to reserve your room.

Act fast, as these rooms will go quickly!

Yes. Select events will be live-streamed. You can register to join the Women's Convention virtually for free.

The Women’s Convention is open to people of all or no religious faiths. We will have space to accommodate for observance and prayer.

Yes! We are working hard to make sure the convention is inclusive and accessible. The Baird Center is ADA-compliant. As we ensure accessibility for our programming with a limited budget, we will be able to provide the following this year:

All main stage programming will be live-streamed, including an ASL and Spanish interpreters onsite. For each of the 4 session blocks, there will be 2 sessions that will have interpreters pre-assigned to them: 1 ASL interpreter assigned to one session and & 1 Spanish Interpreter assigned to a second session. The selections were based on the session name, description, speakers, and topic.

We wish we could provide more interpreters; we'll continue to keep accessibility a priority.

If you have specific accessibility requests, please email accessibility@womensmarch.com, or visit our on-site help desk during the convention.

Item All ticket sales are final, but if you are unable to attend, you may transfer your ticket one time to another attendee.

No, meals are on your own with time allotted for participants to get food at nearby eateries.

The Women's Convention is working hard to ensure our event is as safe as possible for all attendees. We have contracted with a local security company to help support our volunteers on any de-escalation support that will be needed. These guards will be unarmed. If counter protesters do enter the space, please follow the lead of our volunteers and security in de-escalating the situation. We ask that you do not engage with them; but instead focus on why we are there which is expanding the possibility of our feminist future!

Women's March takes the spread of COVID-19 seriously. Our top priority is to try our best to make sure everyone feels safe and comfortable at the Women’s Convention.

We recommend that attendees wear masks during the event. We’re very grateful to WellBefore for their generosity in providing everyone masks that you will find in your registration bag.

While our establishment does not require masks to enter, please be kind to those who choose to wear a mask.

We encourage social distancing throughout the space.

We’ll have sanitizing lotion available throughout the venue.

We’ll have COVID tests available should you need it, please email Convention@womensmarch.com (during the convention).

If you don't feel well during the conference, please inform Women’s March staff at registration or email Convention@womensmarch.com.

DO NOT attend if any of the following is true for you or anyone in your party:

• Within 14 days before attending the conference if you have tested positive, or been exposed to someone who has tested positive for, COVID-19;

• Within 48 hours prior to attending the conference, you have experienced symptoms of COVID-19 (e.g., a fever of 100.4F or higher, cough, shortness of breath or difficulty breathing, chills, repeated shaking muscle pain/achiness, headache, sore throat, loss of taste or smell, nasal congestion, runny nose, vomiting, diarrhea, fatigue or any other symptoms associated with COVID-19 identified by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention);

• Within 14 days prior to attending the conference, you have traveled to any international territory identified by federal or applicable state or local governments as being subject to travel or quarantine advisories due to COVID-19.

More Information:

Levels of circulating virus: The CDC is tracking levels of community transmission at the county level (here), using both the number of new cases reported and the percent of tests that are positive. Communities are classified as having low, moderate, substantial, or high transmission, with greater transmission levels meaning higher risk of infection in those communities. There are separate data sets for hospitalizations and deaths.

If you don't feel well during the conference, please inform Women’s March staff at registration or email Convention@womensmarch.com.