Upcoming Events

Thursday, March 20, 2025, 6-8 p.m.

Pride Alumni-Student Mixer

Location: Gender and Sexuality Center for Queer and Trans Life

Appleby Hall, Room 40, 128 Pleasant Street SE, Minneapolis

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Past Events

Carlson's MBA LGBTQIA+ Affinity Group Networking Night

Date: Tuesday, February 27 2024

Carlson Alumni Pride and Piper Sandler Networking Night

Date: Thursday, March 16 2023

Time: 5:00pm-Close CST

Location: Norsemen Distillery

Details: Casual networking and socializing between Carlson LGBTQIA+ alumni and Piper Sandler's Pride Network and allies. Beverages will be provided for Carlson alumni. 

No RSVP required!

Carlson's MBA LGBTQIA+ Affinity Group Networking Night

Date: Tuesday, March 14th 2023

Time: 5:30-7:00 pm CST

Location: Urban Growler Brewing Co.

Details: Casual networking event for Part-Time MBA, Online MBA, Full-Time MBA, CEMBA, and prospective MBA students. Heavy appetizers will be provided.

RSVP for current students

RSVP for prospective students, staff and alumni

Webinar - Navigating the LBGTQ+ Legal Environment - Watch the recording here

January 24th, 12:00-1:00pm CST - Virtual event

While LGBTQ people have won an increasing number of legal protections in the past few decades, recent legislative action and judicial decisions, most notably the Supreme Court's ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, threaten to undermine these efforts. Join us for a lively discussion surveying the legal landscape for LGBTQ people in the US, as University of Minnesota adjunct professor Nate Freeman breaks down the implications of recent cases, predicts what will come next, and offers a different interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment.

Speaker Bio:

Nate Freeman is a graduate of Whitman College and Yale Law School, where he was a co-director of the LGBT Litigation Project. He served as a law clerk on the United States District Court for the District of Utah for the Honorable Tena Campbell and the Honorable Robert J. Shelby, the first federal judge to interpret the Supreme Court’s decision in Windsor. He then clerked on the Constitutional Court of South Africa for Justice Edwin Cameron, an openly gay and openly HIV-positive jurist known for his advocacy in these areas. After cycling 7,500 miles from Cairo to Cape Town to meet LGBTQ activists, Nate worked as a legal consultant for the Human Rights Awareness and Promotion Forum in Kampala, Uganda. He is currently an attorney with the Minnesota Tax Court and an adjunct professor at the University of Minnesota Law School, where he teaches a seminar on LGBTQ rights. He has been published by the Columbia Journal and American Theatre.

Carlson Pride Alumni Reunion

5:00-9:30pm, November 17th, McNamara Alumni Center - Swain Room

Sign up here!

Carlson Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Conference

October 13th

National Coming out Day

October 11th

Carlson School Tailgate and Carlson day at Gopher Football

Huntington Bank Stadium

October 1st, 9:00-11:00am

Free to attend! Learn more and signup here.

CAPN attended the Twin Cities Pride Festival

Loring Park, Minneapolis, MN. June 25th-26th, 2022

We had a table that was part of the broader University of Minnesota's presence at the Festival.

https://tcpride.org/festival/

Transgender Day of Visibility - Fireside Chat with Vanessa Tennyson

Held on Thursday, March 31st 2022. Watch the recording here!

The Transgender Day of Visibility is an annual event dedicated to celebrating transgender people and raising awareness of discrimination faced by transgender people worldwide, as well as a celebration of their contributions to society.

Carlson Ally Week (organized by the Carlson school)

March 21-25, 2022. From the event's website, "Carlson Ally Week was established with the hopes of promoting an inclusive community across all programs and departments. The scope is focused around allyship, and the many avenues it captures. This will include a week-long series of events, speakers, workshops, etc, focused on different forms and levels of allyship."

Networking Event

Held on Friday, February 11th 2022 from 5:30-7:30pm at Urban Growler Brewing Co. Carlson Alumni Pride Network was back with another exciting Networking event! We were delighted to share an evening of networking with fellow Carlson Alumni.

Pride professional development - Mental health in the workplace

Held on December 2, 2021.

Join Carlson Alumni Pride Network for a unique professional development opportunity geared for LGBTQ+ alumni and allies. Click here to watch the recording. 

COmpass LGBTQ Alumni Reunion (hosted by compass)

Held November 11th, 2021.

Location: West Wing Room at the Campus Club of the University of Minnesota 

Visit https://www.compassundergrad.com/ to learn more about Compass.

Pride networking

Held October 12, 2021.

Join Carlson Alumni Pride Network in an evening of networking with fellow LGBTQ+ alumni and allies.