Conference registration includes attendance at all sessions and keynote speakers, as well as breakfast, lunch, and coffee on both days.

Registration Fees

Event Registration Fees

Rate Type Early bird
(through 3/8)
Regular
(3/9-3/31)
Late
(4/1-4/16)
Standard Rate $95 $120 $160
Solidarity Rate $60 $75 $100
Student Rate $60 $60 $60
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We are proud to offer a flexible pricing structure and invite you to select the registration tier that aligns with your current financial situation.

Standard Rate: Your contribution at this level directly helps us sustain the conference and its programs.

Student Rate: This reduced rate is available to full-time students. Please be prepared to show valid student identification when you check in at the welcome desk.

Solidarity Rate: We are excited to offer this new, lowered rate for those currently experiencing financial hardship.

Sponsor a Solidarity Rate: You can help make the conference accessible to everyone by contributing to our community access fund, which helps support other community members.

Please note: Rates will increase on March 9 and April 1.

Parking on Campus

Conference attendees should park in the Parking Garage behind the Ferguson Center for the Arts, which is easily accessible from J. Clyde Morris Blvd / Avenue of the Arts.

Shuttle service will be provided from the parking garage to David Student Union.

It is approximately a 5-minute walk (about 0.25 miles) from the parking garage to the David Student Union.

Click here to see the location in Google Maps
Map of Christopher Newport University campus highlighting parking and shuttle options for the Hampton Roads Social Justice Conference 2025. The David Student Union (DSU, #3) is marked as the conference site. Attendees are advised to park in the garage (#13) with shuttle services available to the DSU. The campus layout includes building names and parking areas.

Accommodations

We have a group hotel rate available at the Newport News Marriott at City Center. Rooms are $110 per night and should be booked by Friday, March 20, 2026.

Please note that the hotel is located about 3 miles from campus. Transportation is available via Uber, Lyft, or HRT bus line.

If cost is a barrier for attendance, please contact the conference organizers; a limited number of sponsorships are available.

Questions and inquiries should be directed via email to Dr. Laine Briddell, Associate Director, Center for Crime, Equity, and Justice Research and Policy at ccejrp@cnu.edu.

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