EDUCATE. ADVOCATE. SUPPORT.

The Leadership for Women Program at ASU strives to engage people of all genders in advancing gender equity and inclusion.  To do so, the program facilitates meaningful dialogue, co-curricular learning, and skills development in the areas of feminism, advocacy, leadership, and empowerment so that students may become catalysts for a more just world. 

Student Learning Outcomes

As a result in engaging in opportunities offered by the Leadership for Women Program, students will: 

• Develop a deeper awareness and appreciation of their own cultures, identities, and experiences and recognize how they shape our views of the world and of others; 
• Cultivate an awareness of and appreciation for a diverse cultures, identities, and experiences to become supportive and informed allies for each other;
• Increase one’s understanding of and ability to address microaggressions, implicit bias, and non-inclusive language;
• Recognize and understand the individual, institutional, and structural aspects of privilege, discrimination, and oppression, including the role of intersecting identities;
• Acquire leadership skills, particularly with regards to advocating for inclusion and equity for individuals and groups, especially those historically underrepresented, marginalized, and/or oppressed;
• Connect curricular learning with co-curricular education, especially related to feminism, diversity, equity, and inclusion; and
• Identify and understand how to access resources, both on and off campus, for support and advocacy.

Social justice is not merely the understanding of a need; it requires action. In order to fulfill the University’s mission and commitment to social justice; We participate in continuing education on social justice issues and we develop initiatives intended to respond to the often-repeated student query.

“So what do we do?”--Connect awareness to a plan of action.