ICL student Paola De La Cruz discusses civic engagement and her leadership
Institute for Community Leadership Kent Meridian student Paola De La Cruz discusses the role of civic engagement with ICL in the development of her voice and her leadership
Honoring one man’s contributions to nonviolence that have shaped the world’s understanding.
Selma, Alabama--- This past week, the Institute for Community Leadership’s board member, David Gaines, was in Selma, Alabama, where we collaborate with a dynamic cohort of youth warriors for justice and democracy, sponsored by the…
Institute For Community Leadership Receives Gold Star Award From Tacoma Public Schools
Tacoma Public Schools recently honored the Institute for Community Leadership (ICL) with their Gold Star Community Partner Award for the work they do with youth teaching them skills in the areas of leadership and civic…
GOLD STAR PARTNER – Institute for Community Leadership
Tacoma Public Schools Partnership office works to galvanize the power of community to assist young people in creating the future they choose, plan, and prepare for. We bring people together to become the voices that…
ICL Student Ashaia Bennett Joins Civil Rights Pilgrimage
Lincoln High School sophomore and youth leader Ashaia Bennett joined the Civil Rights Pilgrimage in Alabama. Read the article in the Tacoma Weekly! Ashaia Bennett and Congresswoman Marilyn Strickland joined the procession across the Edmund Pettus…
Institute For Community Leadership Receives Gold Star Award 
The Institute for Community Leadership is honored to be the recipient of the Tacoma Public Schools Board of Director's Gold Star Community Partner Award. Click here for the article from the Tacoma Weekly.
Visiting with Vice President Kamala Harris
"Many of the Civil Rights fighters were really young when they started. So, it is your future, and you are taking charge of it!" Vice President Kamala Harris told our delegation in Alabama. Commemorating the…
With the Congressional Civil Rights Pilgrimage crossing the historic Edmund Pettus Bridge
With the Congressional Civil Rights Pilgrimage crossing the historic Edmund Pettus Bridge. Ashaia Bennett, representing Congresswoman Marilyn Strickland (WA10), and Dr. Karen Bohlke with our students and staff and members of the Pilgrimage. Originated by…
2022 Congressional Civil Rights Pilgrimage in Alabama
Our delegation to the 2022 Congressional Civil Rights Pilgrimage in Alabama is honored to have been included in a visit to the generations-old culture keepers of the Gees Bend Quilters. Ashaia Bennett, representing Congresswoman Marilyn…
2022 Congressional Civil Rights Pilgrimage
Our delegation continues its journey as part of the 2022 Congressional Civil Rights Pilgrimage in Alabama
2022 Congressional Civil Rights Pilgrimage in Alabama
Our first day of the 2022 Congressional Civil Rights Pilgrimage in Alabama included sessions with members of Congress, a stop at 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham. Members of Congress laid a wreath in memory…