Mills College
Women's Leadership Institute
http://www.mills.edu/campus_life/womens_leadership_institute/index.php
Contact Information:
5000 MacArthur Boulevard
Mills Hall 128
Oakland, CA 94613
Phone: 510-430-2019
Fax: 510-430-3233
Email: wli@mills.edu
CENTER DESCRIPTION
The Women's Leadership Institute (WLI) of Mills College was founded to recognize, develop, and promote women's leadership to effect change in local, national, and global settings. Through scholarship, research, community service, and activist programming, the Institute aims to build bridges between the college as a learning/teaching community and the wider world of women in on-going and emerging leadership roles.
AREA(S) OF EXPERTISE
Women's, ethnic, and cultural studies; militarism, human rights, and security issues; K-12 Education and Teacher Education;
girls' and women's popular education and participatory action research; women's leadership development.
RECENT PROJECTS AND ACTIVITIES
Symposia and Conferences
Girls and Money Conference -- Money Talks to Women and Girls: The Importance of Dollars and $ense
Symposium: What Girls Learn In and Out of School:
Classrooms, Corridors, Communities. Held in January 2000,
this symposium provided an opportunity to share research,
programs, school curricula and emerging projects and strategies
for improving the lives of girls in the 21st century.
Women's Leadership for Human Rights: Implementing a Global Agenda for Action in the New Millenium, in collaboration with Sisterhood is Global Institute.
Women's Leadership for a New Century-Beyond Beijing:
Five Years of Follow-up to Beijing. An NGO with the
United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, WLI
sent a delegation to the Fourth UN Conference on Women in
Beijing in 1995. After Beijing, WLI has organized five
annual conferences to celebrate women's achievements and
track the progress still to be made. The Spring 2000
conference was recognized by the White House Interagency
Council on Women as an official regional conference in the
United States in preparation for Beijing + 5 held in New York
City in June 2000.
Advancing Women's Leadership in Science. In 1994, WLI,
with the assistance of a nine-member national advisory
committee, sponsored the first national Women in Science
Summit where 52 of the country's leading women scientists
gathered to create the foundation for an action plan that
would advance women's leadership in science. This Summit
also produced an Action Plan to the year 2000 available from
the Institute.
Speaker Series
The series has drawn prominent women to the campus as speakers for both
early-morning breakfast and evening audiences of women and men from the Bay area as well as
Mills students, staff, and faculty. Our most recent speakers include:
Peggy Claude-Pierre, Founder/Director of the Montreux Clinic and author of The Secret Language of Eating Disorders
Krishanti Dharmaraj, Founder of WILD for Human Rights
Congresswoman Barbara Lee
Esta Soler, Founder of Family Violence Prevention Fund
Ellen Thobella, South African political activist
- Scholars in Residence Program
Scholars and other exceptional
women from all over the world are invited to Mills College to
engage in special projects of relevance to women's leadership.
Residences are for varying lengths of time, from one week to
one semester.
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