About Reaching Out

The Reaching Out MBA student conference is the annual gathering of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) graduate business school students from all over the world. Our organization is dedicated to promoting the acceptance and visibility of LGBT businesspeople and their interests in the workplace. The conference provides a forum for prospective and current graduate business school students, recent alumni and current business leaders to build personal and professional networks, exchange information and promote cooperation within their respective areas of interest.

The 13th Annual Reaching Out LGBT MBA student conference is being hosted and organized jointly by the MBA students of Columbia Business School, Darden School of Business, Fisher College of Business, Johnson School of Management, Stern School of Business and the Tuck School of Business. It will take place from October 14 to October 17 at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles. 

The theme of this year’s Reaching Out LGBT MBA Conference is "Life on the Q-List". The conference program will target ways of building out and reinforcing our LGBT networks across the country and the world.