Center for Women’s Leadership Approach
Our programming portfolio is expanding to meet the needs of rising community leaders across our region! We co-design and facilitate leadership development opportunities in relational practice with community partners and program participants.
We utilize cohort experiences as a mechanism to build communities of praxis (that is, communities grounded in a continuous practice of learning, doing, and reflecting). These communities will catalyze learning and growth around leadership practices that are explicitly anti-racist; grounded in intersectional feminist and queer ways of thinking, feeling, and doing; embracing of radical imagination; and dedicated to creating a culture of relationality and care among participants and in our communities.
Our Commitments to Gender Inclusive Space
Women’s spaces were originally created because historically women were excluded from male-dominated spaces and institutions. This is particularly true for schools and universities. As our collective understanding of gender has expanded beyond the women/men binary, it is clear that people of various genders experience exclusion from male-dominated spaces. So in the original spirit of women’s spaces, we welcome people of all marginalized genders to a space where they can learn, grow, and support one another.
We welcome participants of diverse gender, racial and ethnic identities, sexual orientations, and socioeconomic backgrounds. We strongly encourage students who are Black, Indigenous, People of Color, transgender and gender nonbinary to apply, as well as applicants with no prior college education experience.
Accessibility
We strive to ensure that our programming spaces are equitable and inclusive for all participants. We will invite participants to share their access needs in program applications, and we will actively engage with participants to ensure the accessibility of the platforms and spaces we’ll use in the program.