Women's Resource Center

Leadership Opportunities

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About the Feminist Leadership Program & Cohort

The WRC proudly offers a feminist leadership learning community called the Leadership Cohort. The Leadership Cohort helps feminist leaders develop the language and tools to disrupt systems of oppression within themselves, their communities, and the institutions they are 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. Each 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 with a commitment that our feminism is not just conceptual, but based in praxis. We offer frameworks that will allow our leaders to develop skills to carry forward through the rest of their lives. 

WRC’s Feminist Leadership Values

  • Undoing patriarchal violence and all forms of violence: white supremacy, heteronormativity, homophobia, transphobia, and more
  • Honoring ideologies rooted in Black & indigenous queer, trans, and women’s activism, theory, and work
  • Feminist leadership 
  • Nourishment of ourselves at every level
  • Self-determination
  • Autonomy
  • Resilience
  • Persistence
  • Honoring all ways of knowing
  • Interconnection, interdependence
  • People-first, people-centered
  • Reducing barriers
  • Celebration, joy, and a culture of appreciation

Key learning objectives of our yearlong cohort experience: 

  • Foundational feminist theory/history/practice
  • Foundational concepts regarding systems of oppression, anti-oppression frameworks, and tools/strategies. 
  • Understanding and confidence in practicing multi-faceted leadership concept and tools 
  • An understanding and commitment to: 
    • Leadership development and personal development 
    • Practical and applicable self-reflection tools and strategies
    • Accountability 
    • Community Engagement
    • Vulnerability 
    • Resiliency 

Culminating Leadership Projects: 

Through a creative medium of your choice, develop a project that demonstrates how you have explored, challenged, sat with, come to understand this question: 

“What does leadership mean to you?”.