Time & Location
Oct 03, 2025, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Bellevue Club, 11200 SE 6th St, Bellevue, WA 98004, USA
About The Event
An opportunity for refreshments and socializing will be offered prior to the event; Hors d'œuvres, drinks, and dessert will be available beginning at 6:45pm. There will be additional time for mingling and conversation after our program. Event is free to attend; 21 and older only please.
Parking & Entrance
Guests may park anywhere in the Bellevue Club main parking lot (including the Members Only section). Valet parking is available for $10 per vehicle.
Enter through the Hotel entrance and head up the stairs, past the front desk. Let's Dream Big will be held in Bellevue Club's Olympic Ballroom.
Dress Code
Business attire is encouraged, but you're welcome to come dressed as fancy as you'd like to get. 😊
Can't attend? You still can help us dream big! Click below to make your Dream Big donation.
EVENT SPEAKERS
Sue Badeau
Sue Badeau is a nationally acclaimed speaker, educator, and child welfare professional working in adoption, foster care, juvenile justice and children’s mental health in both public and private agencies. She has developed curricula on many topics used to prepare professional child welfare staff, adoptive and foster parents, judges, attorneys and youth, and serves on several boards of directors. Sue and her husband Hector are lifetime parents of 22 children— two birthed, twenty adopted—in addition to being foster parents to 75.
Claudia Rowe
Claudia Rowe is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Mother Jones, and the Huffington Post. Claudia is also the author of The Spider and the Fly - a crime memoir awarded the Washington State Book Award in 2018 - and Wards of the State, a riveting new book that explores the foster care to prison pipeline through the true stories of former foster youth across America.
