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…

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…

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…

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…

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.

"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. Ashaia Bennett, representing Congresswoman Marilyn Strickland (WA10), and Dr. Karen Bohlke with our students and staff and members of the Pilgrimage. Originated by…

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…

Our delegation continues its journey as part of the 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…