Gender parity in leadership is an essential dimension to ensuring a strong democracy where all citizens are represented, yet the US (alongside many nations worldwide) has a difficult time in achieving this. The gender leadership gap applies to not only politics, but also to business, academia, and the arts. Advancing women's leadership skills and improving our understanding of how gender shapes leadership is one of my passions as a scholar, educator, and social justice advocate. Over the last 10 years, I have worked on numerous collegiate women's leadership programs at Douglass Residential College, Rutgers University, Center for American Women in Politics, Rutgers University, Athena Center for Leadership Studies, Barnard College, Columbia University, and at Whittier College. I currently work with VoteRunLead, a non-partisan organization with the sole purpose of helping women run for elected office.
At Douglass Residential College for Women at Rutgers University- New Brunswick, NJ, I first worked as the Public Leadership Education Network (PLEN) coordinator for the campus. This entailed organizing a speaker series of prominent women in politics (partnering with the Center for American Women and Politics, Eagleton Institute of Politics, and the Rutgers Department of Political Science), overseeing student participation in the PLEN programs in Washington, D.C. (see the link below), and directing a summer internship program for students in the state capital, Trenton. After PLEN, I directed the Barbara Voorhees Mentor Program at Douglass. In this selective program, students are assigned to sections of the Douglass mission course (Issues in Women's Leadership, Knowledge and Power) to be the class mentor, take a separate mentoring course, and are responsible for running the end-of-the-semester plenary for the school. I then moved on to direct the Douglass Mission Course program, crafting the shared syllabus for the 20+ sections of the course, hiring and overseeing the course instructors, designing several plenary program for the school, working with the alumnae association and managing the relationships between instructors, mentors, and the students. After Douglass, I began work at the Athena Center for Leadership Studies at Barnard College, Columbia University. At Athena, I taught the signature course Women and Leadership, helped with the numerous leadership programs at the Center, and was the lead academic researcher for the "Athena CORE 10, Leadership Reimagined" text. Currently, I am working to develop a women's leadership program at Whittier College. I teach a new course, Women and Leadership, supervise a women's leadership student group, and have created several women's leadership programs on campus. If interested in supporting or participating in collegiate women's leadership programs in the US, please see the links below. I also have included several informational resources and my own paper arguing for the importance of collegiate women's leadership programs.
Collegiate Women's Leadership Programs and Opportunities:
http://plen.org
http://www.aauw.org/what-we-do/campus-programs/
http://athenafilmfestival.com
http://www.cawp.rutgers.edu/education_training/NEW_Leadership/overview
https://www.nccwsl.org
Sources for Gender and Leadership:
http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2016/03/25/gender-and-leadership/
http://www.catalyst.org
https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/apl-a0036751.pdf
Below is a paper I wrote highlighting the importance of collegiate women's leadership programs
At Douglass Residential College for Women at Rutgers University- New Brunswick, NJ, I first worked as the Public Leadership Education Network (PLEN) coordinator for the campus. This entailed organizing a speaker series of prominent women in politics (partnering with the Center for American Women and Politics, Eagleton Institute of Politics, and the Rutgers Department of Political Science), overseeing student participation in the PLEN programs in Washington, D.C. (see the link below), and directing a summer internship program for students in the state capital, Trenton. After PLEN, I directed the Barbara Voorhees Mentor Program at Douglass. In this selective program, students are assigned to sections of the Douglass mission course (Issues in Women's Leadership, Knowledge and Power) to be the class mentor, take a separate mentoring course, and are responsible for running the end-of-the-semester plenary for the school. I then moved on to direct the Douglass Mission Course program, crafting the shared syllabus for the 20+ sections of the course, hiring and overseeing the course instructors, designing several plenary program for the school, working with the alumnae association and managing the relationships between instructors, mentors, and the students. After Douglass, I began work at the Athena Center for Leadership Studies at Barnard College, Columbia University. At Athena, I taught the signature course Women and Leadership, helped with the numerous leadership programs at the Center, and was the lead academic researcher for the "Athena CORE 10, Leadership Reimagined" text. Currently, I am working to develop a women's leadership program at Whittier College. I teach a new course, Women and Leadership, supervise a women's leadership student group, and have created several women's leadership programs on campus. If interested in supporting or participating in collegiate women's leadership programs in the US, please see the links below. I also have included several informational resources and my own paper arguing for the importance of collegiate women's leadership programs.
Collegiate Women's Leadership Programs and Opportunities:
http://plen.org
http://www.aauw.org/what-we-do/campus-programs/
http://athenafilmfestival.com
http://www.cawp.rutgers.edu/education_training/NEW_Leadership/overview
https://www.nccwsl.org
Sources for Gender and Leadership:
http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2016/03/25/gender-and-leadership/
http://www.catalyst.org
https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/apl-a0036751.pdf
Below is a paper I wrote highlighting the importance of collegiate women's leadership programs
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