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"Women still need so much more representation, access, and inclusion with more professional development and networking opportunities for there to be more equal footing in the business of sports, too. This momentum and this moment for women should spill over into every facet of sports." Hear from Deputy Director Kaila'Shea Menendez on why you should attend the April 11th Emerging Women in Sports Leadership Summit! https://lnkd.in/emTt3CxE

🌟 Empowering Tomorrow's Leaders: The Crucial Role of Black Women Youth Mentors 🌟 In the tapestry of mentorship, Black women shine as guiding lights for our youth. Here's why their presence as mentors is indispensable: 👩🏾🏫 Representation Matters: Black women mentors offer relatable role models, showing young girls what's possible and inspiring them to dream big regardless of obstacles. 🌟 Cultural Connection: By sharing their stories and experiences, Black women mentors foster a deep sense of cultural pride and identity in their mentees, empowering them to embrace their heritage with confidence. 💼 Career Guidance & Opportunity: Black women mentors provide invaluable insights into navigating academic and professional spaces, helping to unlock doors to success that might otherwise remain closed. Building Confidence & Resilience: Through mentorship, Black women instill the confidence and resilience necessary for their mentees to navigate life's challenges with grace and determination. Inspiring Leadership: Black women mentors serve as beacons of leadership, showing young girls that they have the power to lead, innovate, and create positive change in their communities and beyond. Let's honor and celebrate the incredible impact of Black women youth mentors. Together, let's uplift, support, and empower the next generation of leaders! 💪🏾✨ #BlackWomenMentors #YouthEmpowerment #MentorshipMatters

Excellent leadership opportunity!!

📢 New Research Alert! 📢 Black women remain underrepresented in senior leadership roles, especially in higher education. Our latest study illuminates the success stories of those who have broken through these barriers and ascended to senior leadership positions. 🔑 Key Solutions: 1. Develop identity-based leadership initiatives tailored to the unique challenges Black women and other women of color face. 2. Establish structured mentoring programs connecting Black women leaders with culturally competent mentors. 3. Formulate and enforce policies that support Black women leaders' growth, retention, and success. Together, we can create more inclusive and equitable leadership pathways in higher education! 💪🏽👩🏿🎓✨ #Leadership #HigherEducation #BlackWomenLeaders Ty-Ron Douglas, Ph.D Rhodesia McMillian, Ph.D. Dena Lane-Bonds

What an amazing Leadership Summit to help organize and bridge connection between students and professionals. Let's keep the discussion going, ask yourself: am I truly embracing my unique strengths and leveraging them to create a meaningful impact in my life? #leadershipsummit #empowerment #education

"If you want to go far, go together." This African proverb echoes the power of community. I've witnessed the transformative impact of supportive communities on their success. Here are three compelling reasons why being part of such a community can drive women leaders toward greater heights: 1️⃣ Empowering Networks: These communities offer mentorship, opportunities, and a platform to share experiences, fostering growth and resilience. 2️⃣ Enhanced Visibility: Participation amplifies recognition, opening doors to collaborations and increased visibility. 3️⃣ Resourceful Learning: They serve as knowledge hubs, providing tailored resources and skill-building sessions. Organizations play a pivotal role in nurturing and sustaining these supportive communities: ✨ Cultivate Inclusive Spaces: Foster a culture where diverse voices are heard, valued, and celebrated. Provide platforms and forums that encourage collaboration and mutual support among women leaders. ✨ Invest in Development: Allocate resources for programs specifically designed to empower women leaders, including mentorship initiatives, leadership training, and networking events. ✨ Advocate and Recognize: Champion the achievements of women leaders within and outside the organization. Advocate for their visibility and ensure their contributions are duly recognized and celebrated. Empowerment doesn’t happen in isolation—it thrives within communities that uplift and support each other. Let’s build and sustain these communities within our organizations, ensuring every woman leader has the resources and network she needs to succeed.

It's depressing but also refreshing to see this ⬇️ "This edition of Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine is a resounding no in the face of the travesty that Black women leaders, and other women of color leaders, have been contending with in the sector. As White-founded organizational leadership transitions out of what has more often than not been blatantly unexamined and relatively ungoverned roles in organizations, often on the brink of collapse, incoming Black women leaders are discovering that now there will be not only governance but obstructive, extreme oversight, micromanagement, unreasonable expectations, territorialism, mistrust, little to no support, lack of basic decency and humanity, and the list continues—sometimes from the board, sometimes from the staff, and sometimes from both…and that’s just internally. Externally, there is also misbehavior from funders and from other leaders. There is no place allowed, it seems, to breathe; to rest; to grow; to make mistakes, learn, and recalibrate; to be. The sector, as a number of leaders describe in this edition, is perpetrating death by a thousand cuts." LINK: https://lnkd.in/dZ7B84Bf

Si se puede!!! Reflecting back to attending the 6th annual "2023 Hispanic Leadership Summit” last week in NYC where there were 800+ Latinos in attendance from all over the country! Huge shoutout to  We Are All Human Foundation and thank you to Claudia Romo Edelman on creating this empowering space to learn about the impact of Latinos in the US and beyond! United Nations Here are some facts that may surprise you: 📌Latinos in the US are the 5th largest economy in the world 📌 Labor force participation- Latinos are the Most Employed cohort 📌 Latinos will reward brands that do something with racism 📌 The Hispanic population in the US currently stands at 62.1 million and is anticipated to soar to 71.7 million by 2030. 📌 The Latino GDP stands remarkably at 3.2 trillion dollars. 📌 The surge in Latino pride has elevated to 64%, up from 61% in 2018.

White Women: If you support Black women in leadership, allies are also welcome to register. If we (white women) want to be part of meaningful change, white women must choose womanhood over whiteness. This requires us (white women) to unlearn what we have been taught about about racial injustice, discrimination, and white supremacy in this country. We must be willing to relearn what it will take to dismantle white supremacy. White women have been part of white supremacy in America since the very beginning, experts point out, dating back to their role in slavery. “They were at the table when the system was designed,” Stephanie Jones-Rogers, a history professor at UC Berkeley and author of the book They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South, told Vox. “They were co-architects of the system.” It’s hard for a lot of white women to read that last paragraph and embrace this reality. White women historically have leveraged their white power and privilege to gain advantage over women of color; leveraging their whiteness was an intentional strategy when one is operating within a predominantly white male patriarchy. Whiteness over womanhood is easy math. Having privilege doesn’t make white women bad people, and acknowledging privilege shouldn’t be a burden. Acknowledging privilege is an opportunity to learn, grow, and be better, so we can create a just, equitable, and inclusive world. Benefiting from privilege doesn’t make you a bad person, but it does require you to use your privilege to interrupt, challenge, and ultimately end white supremacy. We can’t dismantle what we cannot see. We have to be intentional by practicing seeing how racism is baked into systems and how those systems shape and influence the lives of people and communities. We need to put Black women’s voices at the center of our ongoing journey to reeducation in this country. Need some inspiration? Start by exploring these voices: Anna Julia Cooper, Ntozake Shante, Maria W. Stewart, Joan Morgan, Angela Y. Davis, Tressie McMillan Cotton, Mia Birdsong, Claudia Jones, Mikki Kendall, Paula Giddings, Marita Bonner, Nora Neale Hurston, Lorraine Hansberry, and Rev. Pauli Murray. This is not an exhaustive list, but a great start. This list was provided by W. Kamau Bell and Kate Schatz, authors of DO THE WORK, An Antiracist Activity Book. https://a.co/d/aq6A6BZ Here is Amazon link for the book, $13.99, small investment with a big payoff.

So excited to have the opportunity to facilitate a Mindful Conversation on the topic of Having an Empowered Mindset next week. In anticipation of this conversation, I'd like to know what you think. Is an Empowered Mindset something: 1) We are given by someone (boss, teacher, parent, etc)? 2) We are born with? 3) We learn? What is your rationale for your perspective? Let's get the conversation started! #GSEM, #WLN, Sheila Bast, Crystal Barker, Karen Miller, Jenny Bartlow, Rhonda Travers, Laura Dierberg Ayers, Esq., CAPS, Nancy LeMaster