Leadership Speaker Series · Falcon Field · Mesa, AZ

Open the door. Build connections. Lead with confidence.

High school students sit down to supper with accomplished leaders at Mesa's historic Falcon Field Airport — hear a life story told plainly, practice professional networking, and step up to the podium themselves.

Sponsor a supper What this is

Every gift is tax-deductible through LEEF · 100% reaches the mission

A brown bag, a hangar, and a seat at the table

The meal is simple on purpose. The conversation is not.

Most students meet successful adults at a distance — on a stage, in a headline, behind a title. Brown Bag Supper closes that distance. A leader comes to Falcon Field, brings their real story, and eats at the same table as the students who came to hear it. No panel. No podium between them. Just supper and a story told straight.

Then the students take a turn. Every supper ends with young people practicing the two skills nobody teaches them directly: introducing yourself to a stranger who matters, and speaking in front of a room that is listening.

The Lewis Educational Enrichment Foundation is the series' founding sponsor.

What a supper looks like

Arrival and introductionsStudents practice the handshake, the name, and the one sentence about themselves — the part everyone fumbles until they have done it a few times.
Supper, togetherEveryone eats the same simple meal at the same table. Rank comes off with the coat.
The story, told plainlyThe speaker walks through an actual career — including the parts that did not work — instead of delivering a polished keynote.
Questions from studentsUnscreened, asked out loud, answered honestly.
Students at the podiumYoung people close the evening on their feet, in front of the room, on the record.

Four ways in

Speak

Bring your actual career story to a room of students who want to hear how it really went.

Sponsor

Underwrite a supper so no student pays to attend and no speaker pays to serve.

Host

Businesses and civic groups bring their people to the table alongside the students.

Intern

Students produce the series — booking, logistics, promotion, and donor stewardship.

Apply for a Brown Bag Supper internship → · Contact the foundation to speak or host →

Put a student at the table

Every gift is made to the Lewis Educational Enrichment Foundation and is tax-deductible. Students never pay to attend.

One-time gift

Any

amount

Sponsor a supper

Covers the meal, the room, and the seats — so the only thing a student has to bring is a question worth asking.

Give to Brown Bag Supper

Annual membership

$25

per year

Become a Friend of LEEF

Annual members fund all three LEEF programs, which is what lets us schedule a full season of suppers rather than one night at a time.

Join Friends of LEEF

In-kind

Time

or a venue, or a meal

Give what you have

Speakers, meeting space, and catered suppers are as useful as cash, and in-kind gifts are receipted the same way.

Partner with LEEF

The foundation behind the series

Brown Bag Supper is a program of the Lewis Educational Enrichment Foundation, Inc. — an independent 501(c)(3) public charity developing youth literacy, confidence, and leadership across Arizona's East Valley.

Legal name

Lewis Educational Enrichment Foundation, Inc.

Status

501(c)(3) public charity

EIN

33-4743971

Foundation

lewiseducation.org

Contributions are tax-deductible under IRC Section 170, and the IRS determination letter is available on request.