2025 National Lupus Advocacy Summit
Join lupus warriors from all over the country for the nation's largest lupus advocacy event of the year! The Lupus Foundation of America's National Lupus Advocacy Summit will take place May 4-6, 2025 in Washington, DC. Summit attendees will learn from experts in the field about the latest in lupus research, connect with hundreds of their fellow lupus warriors, and advocate to increase lupus research funding and advance policies to improve the lives of all people with lupus. Don’t miss your chance to turn Capitol Hill purple - stay tuned for registration in early January 2025!
The National Lupus Advocacy Summit brings together the entire lupus community to urge members of Congress to support policies that will help people living with lupus. Come to Washington, DC and share your experience living with lupus with your elected officials.
Hear firsthand from the brightest minds researching and treating this disease and receive training on how to advocate for yourself and others with lupus throughout the entire year.
There's no other event in the world that brings together as many people affected by lupus as the Lupus Foundation of America's Summit. Be surrounded by those who understand your challenges and can help you manage them.
Meet with your members of Congress to tell your lupus story and urge them to join our fight against this terrible disease by supporting policies to improve the lives of all people affected by lupus.
The National Lupus Advocacy Summit is the keystone of the Lupus Foundation of America's comprehensive advocacy program that has generated more than $768 million in federal lupus research funding in the past five years.
Sign up as an advocate and you'll receive the latest news and updates about the 2025 National Lupus Advocacy Summit, important policy issues, and opportunities to contact your members of Congress in support of people affected by lupus.
We understand that traveling to Washington can be costly. It's important to us that we provide advocates with tools and ideas to help offset costs.
The Foundation will again provide scholarships for advocates to attend the Summit. Scholarships are extremely limited, and as much as we wish we could, we are not able to provide scholarships for everyone who applies. The application period will open in January 2025.
The Foundation's Summit Fundraising Guide provides tools to help offset the cost of attending. The guide will help you budget for your trip, leverage the power of crowdsourcing, and much more. The 2025 guide will be released in December.
For questions about the 2025 National Lupus Advocacy Summit, please contact Sara Chang at advocacy@lupus.org.