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The Annual Convention

The annual Flinn-Brown Convention, which brings together Fellows dating back to the first Flinn-Brown cohort in 2011, is a place to make new connections and re-connect with Fellows while learning about state-level leadership and public service from policy experts and Fellows.

The 2025 Flinn-Brown Convention will be held Friday, Aug. 15. More details to come.

The 2024 Flinn-Brown Convention, with the theme “Collaboration: A Network that Invokes Change,” took place on Friday, Aug. 16 at On Jackson in downtown Phoenix.

The 2023 Flinn-Brown Convention, “Leading Arizona: Celebrating Public Service and Navigating Its Challenges,” was held Friday, Nov. 3 at the Helios Education Campus in Phoenix.

The 2022 Flinn-Brown Convention, “The State of Our Democracy,” was held Friday, Nov. 4 at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix.

The 2021 Flinn-Brown Convention, with the theme “Media and the Message,” was held Nov. 12 at the Heard Museum in Phoenix.

Along with sessions led by Flinn-Brown Fellows and Arizona public-policy leaders, presenters have included national leaders in their fields such as Honorable Roopali Desai, Circuit Court Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and the Honorable Michael Liburdi, District Judge for the United States District Court for the District of Arizona; Katherine M. Gehl, author of “The Politics Industry”; Kris Van Cleave, CBS News congressional correspondent; Manuel Pastor, Distinguished Professor of Sociology and American Studies & Ethnicity at the University of Southern California and an author and expert on demographic change; Public Agenda President and CEO Will Friedman, a leader in research and innovation regarding public opinion and engagement; and choreographer and performer Liz Lerman, Institute Professor, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University.

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Flinn-Brown Award Recipients

Five awards honoring high-impact leaders are granted each year at the Convention: Jack Jewett Award, Network Builder Award, and three Arizona Champion (Northern, Central and Southern Arizona) awards.

The individual winners of the Flinn-Brown Awards have made significant contributions to Arizona as state-government advisers, elected officials, agency executives, and policy experts—and have played important roles in strengthening their communities and the Flinn-Brown Network.

Past winners include:

2023 Flinn-Brown Award Recipients

2022 Flinn-Brown Award Recipients

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Learn more about the Flinn-Brown Fellows

Across Arizona, there are 465 Flinn-Brown Fellows in the Flinn-Brown Network, many in state-level leadership roles, with wide-ranging expertise and experience.

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