May 2020

“What do you think makes a leader?” Sharon Cornu spent time with our youth and staff in an online seminar discussing the qualities that make leaders and the important interconnections between leadership and management. Sharon…

“Leadership is sacred. Leadership is about service and leaders must lead with love.” Educator Shukri Olow discussed the spiritual and cultural contexts of leadership with our youth and staff in one of our online seminars.…

“Encourage yourself. It’s important when you have an understanding about where you want to go, sometimes you have to dig into what is already inside you when others may discourage you.” --Marlon McWilson Educator, businessman,…

“You cannot be an individual, isolated leader. If you want to be a good leader, if you want to sustain leadership over a long period of time, you have to be part of a team.”…

“Through your education and your commitment to community service you are going to learn things that you never knew before. You have to be open to being excited by new things and about being driven…

“Showing that you challenge yourself is important in a leader. You want to create a kind of roadmap for your own work so that it keeps you guided. But I’m not doing that by myself,…

Dear friends: Today we joined the Faith and Politics Institute with Executive Director Joan Mooney for our leadership seminar for a conversation with Karen Korematsu and the story of the struggles and victories and her…

“Leaders understand that you have to be knowledgeable, and they have a commitment to continuous learning.” Our youth and staff are grateful to leading educator Dr. Nelson Soto for joining us for an online leadership…

“Successful leaders are the ones who get down and start working. The ones who aren’t successful begin by just barking orders." –Dave Upthegrove, King County Councilmember, WA Dave Upthegrove joined our youth and staff for…

“Once you establish your values, you have to uphold them. If you don’t have integrity, you are not a leader.” “What is my vision for myself and for my community? Do I have a clear…