Women's Leadership Project: California Women’s Conference

Sunday, June 20, 2010

California Women’s Conference

On October 22nd thirteen Women’s Leadership Project students attended the Governor’s Women’s Conference with 500 invited high school students from across the state. Speakers included Condoleeza Rice, journalist Christiane Amanpour and civil rights activist Marian Wright Edelman. Students who participated were required to complete thirty hours of community service and send in an evaluation of their outreach to the California Women’s Foundation

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Women's Leadership Project

The Women’s Leadership Project (WLP) is a feminist service learning program designed to educate and train young
middle and high school age women in South Los Angeles to take ownership of their school-communities. Since 2006 WLP
has been based at South L.A. high schools like Gardena and Washington Prep High School. Using a humanist curriculum with a social justice lens, the goal of the program is to empower young women of color to develop their own voices, increase their self-esteem, foster healthy relationships, promote critical consciousness about and activism around race, gender, and LGBT equality, and prepare for college and careers. WLP guides young women through public advocacy
projects of their own choosing, toward helping them develop and sharpen their critical thinking, writing, organizing and leadership skills. This year's cohort has been accepted to several UC and Cal State campuses in addition to out-of-state
colleges like Syracuse University and the University of Oregon and won prestigious awards such as the Horatio Alger and Posse Foundation scholarships.