The Conference
Friday
7:30 - 9:00 · Registration
8:00 · Walks (and coffee!)
9:00 · Introduction
9:10 · Ashley Mitchell - Parenting Ourselves: Healing Through Motherhood
9:45 · Katie Greer - Digital Guardians: Keeping Our Households Safe in the Digital World
10:20 · Breakout Sessions
11:00 - 11:40 · Panel Chat: Motherhood in the Setting of the Current World Reality
11:45 · Mini-Talk: Vanessa Garrett
12:00 · Lunch!
1:00 · Shelly Stover - Guiding Our Teens Toward Safe, Healthy, and Honest Intimacy
1:35 · Ruthie Ackerman - Outlaw Mothers: Rewriting the Narrative on Motherhood
2:05 · Breakout Sessions
2:45 · Panel Chat: Navigating Adult Dependents
3:30 · Panel Chat: Raising Boys
4:15 · Mini-Talk: Chloe Kay
4:45 · Closing
5:00 - 6:30 · Happy Hour!
Saturday
8:00 - 9:00 · Registration (and coffee!)
9:00 · Erika Hagensen Kammer - Before “How-it-Started/ How-it’s-Going” There is the Swoop
9:30 · Mini-Talk: Kacie Lett Gordon
9:45 · Panel Chat: Taboo Topics in Women’s Health
10:30 · Mini-Talk: Nesha Pai
11:00 · Brunch and Fireside Chat: Angela Fusaro and Shane Tenny
11:50 · Breakout Sessions
12:40 · Panel Chat: Sexuality
1:30 · Chemyeeka Tumblin: Half Life of the Nuclear Family
2:05 · Breakout Sessions
3:00 · Robyn and Zoe Brookshire: Grown and Known: Keeping Close Connections With Our Young Adult Children
3:45-4:00 · Closing Remarks!
November 13-14, 2026
Emory University
Miller-Ward Alumni House
815 Houston Mill Road
Atlanta, GA 30329