The Center for Women's Leadership

✨NEW Leadership Oregon 2024✨ The last two days marked the beginning of this incredible cohorts journey as a learning community. Over the next six months, these rising leaders will work together to co-design their experience while supporting each others leadership journeys. We are so thrilled to be with them in this experience and share their words on where they hope to be at the end of their time together. #NEWLeadership #LeadershipDevelopment #IntersectionalLeadership #TransformationalLeadership

That’s a wrap on day one of NEW Leadership Oregon 2024! Thank you to our wonderful guest facilitators Ivy Major-McDowall, Marchel Marcos & Jennifer Martinez-Medina for making today so memorable by spending time in thoughtful conversation as the cohort begins their leadership learning journey together. #NEWLeadership #Emergent #EmergentStrategy #IntersectionalLeadership #LeadershipDevelopment

That’s a wrap on day one of NEW Leadership Oregon 2024! Thank you to our wonderful guest facilitators Ivy Major-McDowall, Marchel Marcos & Jennifer Martinez-Medina for making today so memorable by spending time in thoughtful conversation as the cohort begins their leadership learning journey together. #NEWLeadership #Emergent #EmergentStrategy #IntersectionalLeadership #LeadershipDevelopment

We are excited to welcome alum Zoë Gamell Brown back to NEW Leadership Oregon to facilitate an arts based workshop on bearing witness to self and community. 💜💚 My name’s Zoë, and I’m a queer, first-generation Boviander Guyanese American artist, educator, and storyteller based in Chinook Illahee. My work explores healing ecologies through ceramic sculptures, culinary catharsis, creative nonfiction, experimental video, and photopoetry projections. In 2020, I founded Fernland Studios an experimental ecology art studio prioritizing rest, rejuvenation, and reciprocity. Our mission is to prioritize providing Black, Indigenous, and all people of color opportunities to sustain their relationship with the land through art, education, and spiritual wellness. I’m a doctoral student in the University of Oregon Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies’ inaugural cohort. As a nontraditional student, I received my bachelor’s degree in public relations, minoring in geography, from Texas State University and graduated with my master’s degree in environmental studies at the UO in 2021. I am a 2023 Writers in the Schools Apprentice with Literary Arts, a Seeding Justice Lilla Jewel Award awardee, and a UO Charles A Reed Graduate Fellow. I received a Digital Evolution/Artist Retention Fellowship through the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute and a Louise Westling Distinguished Environmental Justice Fellowship through the UO Pacific Northwest Racial and Climate Justice Futures Institute in 2022. I was an inaugural Women Innovation Network cohort member, a National Education for Women’s Leadership of Oregon member through PSU, and a Spiritual Ecology Fellow through Emergence Magazine in 2021. I grew up on Munsee Lenape land in Roselle Park, New Jersey, before moving to Akokisa land outside Houston, Texas, at seven. When I’m not daydreaming, you can find me rambling around the Pacific Northwest, taking pictures of trees and sea anemones. #NEWLeadership #LeadershipDevelopment #IntersectionalLeadership #ReflectivePractice #ReflectiveLeadership

NEW Leadership Oregon 2024 launches today! We are excited that Ivy Major-McDowall will be joining us in Salem as part of a round table conversation with this years cohort called “Our Stories as Leaders”. Ivy’s passion and talent for grassroots organizing is rooted in her deep commitment to advancing justice for youth. Centering community voice in public policy is a hallmark of her professional career, and a north star for her work at FBO. Most recently, Ivy served as Policy and Advocacy Director at Our Children Oregon, where she led legislative advocacy and uplifted community-driven solutions while stewarding the Children’s Agenda, a statewide coalition championing the well-being of children, youth, and families. She began her career as a legislative coordinator for APANO, working to amplify Asian American and Pacific Islander voices in the Oregon State Capitol, including advocacy for the Student Success Act and Oregon’s landmark ethnic studies standards. She has also served as a senior field organizer for Texas Rising, working with young people of color across Central Texas to grow their leadership skills and drive change in their local communities and at the ballot box. In recognition of her leadership, Ivy was selected as an American Leadership Forum fellow, and serves on the board of Next Up, a nonpartisan nonprofit amplifying youth voice and leadership. #IntersectionalLeadership #NEWLeadership #LeadershipDevelopment

We are excited that Marchel Marcos (she/her) will be joining us as a speaker at NEW Leadership Oregon 2024! Marchel is an entrepreneur, changemaker, and organizer. Marchel attended Portland State University and studied Urban and Public Affairs. In 2019, Marchel completed the fellowship program with Planned Parenthood Advocates of Oregon (PPAO) where she testified for the first time in support of Paid Family and Medical Leave. Marchel was later recognized with the PPAO Volunteer Excellence Award which led her to deepening her work in grassroots organizing. Through her role as the Political, policy, advocacy, and civic engagement Director at APANO Action Fund, Marchel has led multiple field campaigns including the We Count Oregon census campaign and helped to elect the first in the Nation- 5 Vietnamese Asian Americans into the Oregon legislature. Marchel currently serves as the Political Director for Family Forward Oregon/ Action and Mother PAC and the Campaign Supervisor for Sex Worker Affirming Advocates. As a speaker, Marchel has been invited to speak at the Portland March for Reproductive March, Portland State University, Lewis & Clark, Doc Martens, and has been featured in POP Sugar. As a survivor of domestic violence and sexual assault, Marchel is committed to intersectional social justice, advocacy for communities of color, the LGBTQIA+ community, and survivors. Marchel founded Oregon Voice for Survivors to organize and elect candidates that will center survivor voices in policies and mitigate harm caused by people in positions of power. Her work is grounded in centering the experiences of historically underrepresented communities and those with intersectional identities to achieve equity. Marchel is a single parent raising two children in Hillsboro, Oregon. In her free time she enjoys traveling, trying new foods, and co-owns Rooted by Plant Mami’s. Marchel is proud to be born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii and attended Iolani and Roosevelt High School. Marchel’s family immigrated to Hawaii from Okinawa, Ukraine, and Pangasinan, Philippines. #NEWLeadership #IntersectionalLeadership #WomenLeaders #LeadershipDevelopment

We are excited to welcome Jennifer Martinez-Medina (she/her/ella) as a guest speaker at NEW Leadership Oregon 2024. Jennifer is currently an assistant professor at Willamette University. As a scholar activist from the farmworker community of the Central Valley, CA, she studies how transnational families exercise political and social rights through kinship and community care. She shares her findings using storytelling, art, and advocacy. #Advocacy #NEWLeadership #LeadershipDevelopment #IntersectionalLeadership #WomenLeadership

We are one week out from launching NEW Leadership Oregon 2024! 💚 Thank you to TheOregon Capitol Foundation, Spring Day of Giving Donors, ECOVIBE and Larkspur for supporting us in making the launch of this years program extra special. Thank you to our many community partners whose insights supported us in our decision to transition from an intensive residential program, to a 6 month fellowship experience (you can read more on this change in our most recent newsletter: https://lnkd.in/gVVHnGmy). We are inviting members of this years cohort to co-design their experience with us to design a program that’s curated to their needs as emerging leaders. This will start with an immersive retreat in Salem Oregon and continue on a virtual format over the next six months. Together we will explore approaches that 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. Participants will be supported to do the radical work of practicing critical self-reflection for transformational leadership as they become and build community together, for the good of us all. We’ll use a variety of approaches – journaling, art-making, invitations to practice mindfulness, and others – to grow our capacities to act, to reflect on our actions, and to use what we discover as we continue to bring our leadership gifts to the world. #NEWLeadership #LeadershipDevelopment #WomenLeaders #IntersectionalFeminism #IntersectionalLeadership

🌻Spring at CWL is all about getting out across our region to reconnect with community partners, facilitating conference sessions, cohort reunions, and getting to know members of the 2024 NLO cohort. We had a blast spending time with leaders practicing critical self reflection on the concept of Improvisatory Leadership (Rowanna Carpenter & Vicki Reitenauer) to address the ways in which we consider ways to be emergent, relational and committed to continued growth in our leadership choices. Thank you Rural Development Initiatives, Inc., Gender Advocacy and Inclusion Network in Higher Ed and League Of Oregon Cities Women’s Caucus for inviting us to be part of your organizations leadership development opportunities this spring! #Emergent #LeadershipDevelopment #CommunityPartners #CommunityEngagement #EmergingLeaders

I'm so excited to share that the Child Care for Oregon coalition is now accepting applications for our 2024 Summer Parent Cohort (Pilot). This cohort is a unique opportunity for parents to come together, empower each other, have dedicated leadership development, and play a pivotal role in building a comprehensive child care system that reflects our values and priorities. Applications are open through May 31, 2024. Curriculum Created by Esperanza K. Tervalon, A New Hope Consulting. Recreated with her permission. Please message me with any questions! https://lnkd.in/gAPqNgyJ