About the Feminist Leadership Program & Cohort
Each academic year, the WRC proudly offers a year-long feminist leadership learning community called the Leadership Cohort. The Leadership Cohort aims to help feminist leaders develop language and tools to disrupt systems of oppression within themselves, their communities, and the institutions they are a part of and will be part of in the future.
The Leadership Cohort curriculum is designed by us with our values and politics in mind. This year, our leaders will engage with topics including but not limited to Fat Justice, Disability Justice, Queer Black Feminisms, Anti-violence movement (history & practices), Systems of Oppression, Emotionally Intelligent Leadership, and Transformative Feminist Leadership. We engage with these and other topics through a values set that includes a commitment to anti-violence in all its forms, resilience, persistence, interdependence, honoring all ways of knowing, reducing barriers, and self-determination. Our feminism is not just conceptual. We offer frameworks that will allow our leaders to develop skills to carry forward through the rest of their lives.