Mix & Mingle: A Networking Event for BIPOC in Los Angeles

At Embrace Change, we believe networking shouldn't feel like work!

Join us for a laid-back gathering in LA where professionals of color can connect, laugh, and maybe even find your next collaborator, mentor, or work friend.

Ditch the stuffy business card exchange and dive into real conversations over our signature cocktail "The Career Mixer" (with a delicious mocktail option too!). It'll be a space where you can be your real self while expanding your circle.

• Casual mingling with fun conversation starters (no awkward silences!)
• Our signature cocktail and mocktail created just for this event
• Light bites to keep your energy up
• A chance to meet other BIPOC professionals across industries
• Zero pressure, maximum connections

Whether you're a networking pro or breaking out in hives at the thought of small talk, we've designed this event to be refreshing and energizing. Come as you are, leave with new connections!

Pop by on Thursday, April 24th, 2025, from 5 - 6:30pm for the kind of networking event you'll actually want to attend.

We believe in making our events accessible while ensuring we can create a great experience for attendees. Select the ticket that works best for you:

Community Access Ticket (Free) - Limited spots available for students, those between opportunities, and those in low-paying sectors. If this option fits your current situation, we're happy to have you join us!

Community Supporter Ticket ($15) - Our most popular option covers your attendance costs and helps us continue creating these spaces for the BIPOC community.

Community Champion Ticket ($25) - For those who can pay it forward! Your generosity helps subsidize free tickets and ensures these events remain accessible to everyone.

All tickets include the same full event experience with networking, refreshments, and our signature cocktail/mocktail.

Limited spots available – grab yours before they're gone!

Embrace Change is an award-winning career coaching and training firm that specializes in working with women of color. It is our singular mission to get all women of color––and people of color––the money, power, and respect that we deserve in the workplace.

Led by Forbes contributor Cynthia Pong, JD, the Embrace Change team is an all-BIPOC team of career and executive coaches, with areas of expertise ranging from negotiation to leadership to entrepreneurship. Our clients are breaking barriers across industries, including tech, law, medicine, academia, marketing and communications, government, and the trades. Typical results from coaching with Embrace Change include: more robust leadership, executive, communication, and stakeholder management skills; sharper negotiation skills; stronger confidence, motivation, and productivity; increased clarity on career goals and pathways; and strengthened networking and interviewing skills.

Embrace Change also offers a coaching certification program for POC and a flagship leadership program, the Leadership Accelerator for WOC, which won an Anthem Award for its unparalleled success in accelerating the careers of women of color leaders. Graduates have gone on to secure prestigious fellowships (White House, Harvard, Stanford), promotions, raises, speaking opportunities, and admission to top graduate programs (NYU, Berkeley).

**Please note: We are unable to offer refunds and we ask that you only purchase a ticket if you are certain you can attend. Here's why.

Although we make an outsized impact, Embrace Change is a one-WOC-founded microbusiness with a very lean WOC-run and -led operational team.

Being a part of our client community and committing to attend one of our mission-driven events such as this, involves a reciprocal energy exchange and investment that is distinct from interacting with, and buying services from, multinational corporations and even other small businesses.

It has taken our team nearly a decade of time, effort, care, investment, and labor to offer events such as this.

For these reasons, we do not offer refunds. Thank you for your understanding.

Host or Publisher Cynthia Pong Embrace Change