I’m on the ground in Denver, en route to the University of Colorado at Boulder, where the United States Student Association’s National Student Congress gets underway this afternoon.

USSA is the country’s oldest student activist organization — this Congress is the 62nd in the Association’s history. It brings together student government leaders and activists from all around the nation every summer to set USSA’s agenda and elect its leadership for the upcoming year. The Congress also features workshops and meetings of USSA’s various affiliate groups, as well as an incredible amount of informal networking and information sharing.

I’ll be here for the whole Congress — among other things, I’m co-facilitating one of USSA’s “allies” meetings tomorrow, and running a workshop on Thursday on media and social networking in student activism. More on each of those sessions, and on the Congress as a whole, as the week progresses, but right now I’ve got a bus to catch.

The conference’s Twitter hashtag is #NSC09, by the way, so you can keep up with events as they develop that way, too.