Center for Women's Leadership

Our Vision

The Center for Women’s Leadership works in collaboration with seasoned and emerging women and gender-expansive leaders to advance the individual and collective practice of courageous leadership in Oregon and beyond.

We are excited to engage with a wide range of campus and community partners to co-create spaces in which we examine the practice of leadership at the intersections of race, gender, and other categories of difference, in order to enact  systems-level change.

2025 Spring Impact Report 

We are thrilled to share our 2025 Spring Impact Report with all of you! 

Our biannual report is an opportunity to celebrate our alumni, community partners, and program facilitators. It’s also a reflective tool to discern our impact and where to center our efforts for the upcoming biennium.

Over the last two years, the Center for Women’s Leadership (CWL) has maintained our annual operating budget of $580,000 while making intentional shifts in how we invest funds across our programs, community partnerships, and vendors. We’ve cultivated a cross-regional ecosystem of skilled practitioners, facilitators and organization partners to further our collective impact.

Thank you for joining us at An Evening with CWL!

March 5th was another reminder of how gathering is a vital component of community-centered growth. Thank you to all who showed up for An Evening with CWL—both in person and online—and for sharing your evening with us. 

Check out some of our favorite moments from the night!  Thank you Andie Petkus Photography and Flash Photobooth for helping us capture the joy of the evening.

The Center for Women’s Leadership strives to meet the needs of rising women and gender expansive leaders across our region by offering curated learning communities. These communities 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.

Engaged Scholarship: A new initiative launched in Fall 2024, our Engaged Scholarship Projects create and connect learning pods of faculty, students and community partners to work collectively on consequential, mutually beneficial projects. 

Leadership Development: We co-design and facilitate leadership development opportunities in relational practice with community partner(s) and program participants.

Convening Community: Bringing people together is crucial to building and strengthening the relationships that make our collective work possible. In a variety of formal and informal ways, we convene and host gatherings of campus and community partners to advance the connective tissue that makes possible, nurtures, and sustains transformative change. 

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