Join us for the 2025 South Florida Lupus & You: Empowerment Conference 

The Lupus & You: Empowerment conference is an experience that celebrates, inspires, supports, and uplifts lupus warriors, care partners, family, and friends. During this empowering day, attendees will connect with a supportive community, explore the latest lupus advances, learn how to live better with a lupus diagnosis, and leave feeling empowered, knowing they are not alone and equipped with valuable resources and tools for their journey.

Agenda  

• 11:25 am Lupus Today: Breakthroughs & Thriving Strategies Speaker Raza Zaidi, MD
• 12:00 pm Conversations to Empower You Panel Panelists Raza Zaidi, MD, Alexia Bryan, Jerlonda Jones, Ivette Hernandez
• 1:00 pm Stronger Together: Building Meaningful Connections Moderators Jeanette Alston-Watkins, Carla Drakes
• 1:30 pm Navigating Disability Speakers Alicia Paulino-Grisham, Mindy Chmielarz, Esq.
• 2:00 pm Your Journey. Our Power. One Community.  Panelists Carla Drakes, Nadine Kidd
• 2:15 pm South Florida Community Walk Rally

*Topics and times subject to change.