Women's Leadership Project: February 2014

Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Filmmaker Aishah Shahidah Simmons: Women's History Month presentation

Friday, March 7, 2014
Washington Prep High School
Room 1306, 11:30am-12:30pm

Please join us for an insightful discussion with award-winning African-American feminist lesbian independent documentary filmmaker, television and radio producer, published writer, international lecturer and activist Aishah Shahidah Simmons. She will come to speak on her latest groundbreaking film "No! The Rape Documentary", which explores the reality of rape and other forms of sexual violence and healing in African-American communities.

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.