Andi Leadership Institute for Young Women

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Last day! It’s here! Big deliverable day plus the closing ceremony. The Fellows had to deliver a mock speech in front of June Shih, a former Clinton speechwriter on an issue they feel passionate about as they were addressing the RNC or DNC.

They covered such issues as the importance of supporting working class women; supporting small farmers; climate change, reproductive rights and health, civic engagement, unemployed youth in Nigeria, supporting female entrepreneurs and the need to invest more in childcare. And they knocked it out of the park!

Had one more virtual meeting with the State Department’s Office of Global Women’s Issues and learned about their Women, Peace and Security work.

And then we finally closed out the program with a ceremony to honor the 2024 cohort. Andi Parhamovich’s mother and sister joined us. It was a magical eve. Thanks again to the School for Ethics and Leadership for hosting us again and thank you to all of our workshop facilitators and site visit hosts for sharing your time and expertise. 🙏❤️

Congratulations 2024 ALI Fellows! Go forth and continue to shine brightly! ✨✨

Day five! Big day with a meeting at the White House Gender Policy Council’s Deputy Director Rachel Vogelstein, but started the day off with Mark Haas on how we put dreams into action in a tangible way, Mr. Haas has a taught such a workshop since our inaugural program in 2013 and is the CEO and Co-Founder of the Association for Enterprise Growth. We closed out the day with a Q&A with ALI 2013 Fellows Becca Weinstein and Bayan Bahloul and also a Q&A with ALI Board Member Erol Yayboke and then had taco Thursday to let off to steam! Final program day is tomorrow and it’s another big day of deliverables!

Day four! We started off the day with a workshop on holding multiple truths with Devon Gulbrandsen with Int. Coalition of Sites of Conscience, followed by a Creative Visualization workshop led by ALI co-founder, former Program Director, Kim Massey; and then met with Jessica McCall on how we can use communication tools to speak our truth and rounded out the day with ALI Advisory Council member Rachel Maddow. It was another great day!

Day three: Kicked off the Day with Intro to Dialogue with Peace and Conflict Transformation practitioner (and former ALI Program Director) Farah Council; followed by an Intro to Policy Advocacy with Allison Ivie, Principal with Center Road Solutions; rounded it out with some more speech prep and closed the day with some framing on how we can create social change in our home communities with an issue we feel passionate a bit and a visit to the Portrait Gallery to top it off. On to day four!

Day Two: We learned intro to Conflict Transformation from one of the best practitioners in the field, Dr. Tatsushi Arai, Assoc. Professor at Kent State University's School of Peace and Conflict Studies (and ALI Founder Jaime Horn's former prof!); the foundations of ethics and leadership (as well as a bit more about the deliverables for the week) from Noah Bopp, Head of School and Founder of The School for Ethics and Global Leadership, ALI Advisory Council Member; and learned about the importance of voting rights from Sarah Brannon, Deputy Director for the ACLU's Voting Rights Project. Rock on ALI 2024 Fellows!

Day one of the 2024 Program was a great day of getting to know one another, teambuilding and learning about the monuments through the lens of women's history.

Meet your 2024 Andi Leadership Fellows!

Happy heavenly birthday to Andi Parhamovich, the namesake of our institute. Thank you for guiding us and inspiring us from afar. We love and miss you!

Happy International Women's Day! Grateful to all of the young ALI Fellows who have and will continue to carry on Andi Parhamovich's legacy to create positive social change. We honor you today!

This week marks 16 years since the inspiration behind ALI's namesake, Andi Parhamovich, left us for the other side. We are grateful to the young women who have gone through our program (as well as future young women) who are carrying on Andi's legacy to create positive social change. Thank you Andi for guiding us from afar! You keep making magic happen over there and we will continue the good fight down here.