The Day, Unfolded

A room full of conversation, connection and community

Santa BarbaraSignature brunchEvent recap

Date: Saturday, September 19, 2026
Time: 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM
Location: Mar Monte Hotel
Santa Barbara

Then the room began to fill

The day moved quickly from arrivals to greetings, introductions and conversation — new faces, longtime friends, members, guests and community leaders filling the room together

Cosmopolitics 2026 event photograph — The room came alive · Cosmopolitics 2026

Leading California Forward

Cosmopolitics 2026 brought our community together around public leadership, fiscal stewardship, opportunity and California’s future

For SBWPC, the afternoon also reflected a larger purpose — turning feminist values into participation, leadership and action, and expanding women’s access, voice and power

The room came alive

Before the program began, the room carried its own momentum — the setting, the welcome, the details and the first conversations of the afternoon

The day was not one photograph — it was the movement between them
Cosmopolitics 2026 · Santa Barbara Women’s Political Committee

Conversation was everywhere

Handshakes, introductions, laughter and conversations unfolding across the room

Faces of Cosmopolitics

A portrait wall of the community that made the afternoon feel vibrant, personal and unmistakably Santa Barbara

New faces, longtime friends

Groups, reunions and small moments of recognition — the social current running through the day

Fiona Ma at Cosmopolitics

California State Treasurer Fiona Ma joined SBWPC for the 2026 Cosmopolitics program, with conversations continuing throughout the afternoon

Leading California Forward

California State Treasurer Fiona Ma delivered the keynote, followed by a moderated conversation and Q&A with Paula Lopez — a program framed around public leadership, fiscal stewardship, opportunity and California’s future

The day kept moving

Notes, interviews and the program itself became another layer of the afternoon

This is what the day felt like

You made the room

Thank you to everyone who joined us for Cosmopolitics 2026 — our guests, sponsors, volunteers, speakers, members and friends who brought the day to life