NEW Leadership Oregon

NEW Leadership® Oregon (NLO) is an annual multi-session program curated for Oregon college students. NLO is open to any student enrolled at a college or university in Oregon. NLO is an inclusive, intersectional feminist leadership program designed to inspire participants to identify and hone the skills they need to lead in any context — in their community, within the nonprofit sector, in the boardroom, in politics, at home, as activists, and anywhere else their leadership is needed (which is everywhere!)

At NLO we believe there are many different paths toward leadership, and we collaborate with facilitators, speakers, and mentors with a wide range of lived leadership experiences. NEW Leadership® Oregon is modeled after National Education for Women’s Leadership®, the award-winning leadership program designed by the renowned Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University.

In our 2024 program, we’ll explore approaches that 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. Participants will be supported to do the radical work of practicing critical self-reflection for transformational leadership as they become and build community together, for the good of us all.

2024 Program Dates:

Application Opens: February 14, 2024

Application Deadline Extended*: April 8, 2024

Cohort Announced:  April 22, 2024

Program Launch: June 20-21 2024

Location: Hybrid (Virtual Sessions & In Person Overnight in Salem, Oregon)

*Applications received prior to the original application deadline will receive information regarding participating in this year's program by March 31, 2024.

Eligibility: NLO is open to students at all higher education institutions in Oregon. Eligible applicants must be registered for the 2023-2024 academic year at a two-year or four-year institution.   

CWL welcomes participants of diverse gender, racial and ethnic identities, sexual orientations, and socioeconomic backgrounds. We strongly encourage students who are BIPOC, first-in-family college-educated, and transgender and gender nonbinary to apply, along with students from any and every major.

Accessibility: The Center for Women’s Leadership’s top priority is to ensure that NLO is an equitable and inclusive space for all cohort members. We invite you to share your needs and desires around accessibility in the application, and we will actively engage with participants to ensure the accessibility of the platforms and spaces we’ll use in the program. 

Our Sponsors:

Are you interested in sponsoring NEW Leadership Oregon 2024?

Contact Jessica Mole Heilman, CWL Co-Director at jmole@pdx.edu