Women's Leadership Institute

Contact

5000 MacArthur Boulevard Mills
Oakland, CA 94613
Ph. 510-430-2019
Fx. 510-430-3233
http://www.mills.edu/campus_life/womens_leadership_institute/index.php
wli@mills.edu


-- Note That This NCRW Member Center Ceased Activity in 12/2009

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.

 

 

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Projects & Campaigns

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.