Leadership Opportunities:

EmpowHER: Empowering Black Girls to Lead

In partnership with Goldman Sachs, the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change welcomes you to the EmpowHER: Empowering Black Girls to Lead program. This inaugural cohort serves an all-black female cohort (ages 13-18) focusing on character development, wellness, and career readiness. Our character development programming highlights NV365 (the philosophy and methodology of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.). Our wellness curriculum engages with mental and physical health activities such as meditation, etiquette, and self-branding. Lastly, our career readiness programming includes resume writing, LinkedIn branding, and interviewing. The cohort consists of monthly sessions - four in-person Saturday sessions in Atlanta, GA, and three Tuesday evening virtual sessions.

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Imagine a sea of pink, girls cheering, women laughing, and a spirit of love and unity filling the atmosphere. That is what you see and feel at the Southern Black Girls and Women’s Consortium – Black Girls Dream Conference. This unique convening of Black girls, gender expansive youth, and women focuses on visioning, preserving culture, leadership, organizational development, organizing communities, mental and physical health and wellness, entrepreneurship, academic and collegiate preparation, hands-on STEAM programming and much more in a vibrant atmosphere of fun and celebration. It’s where Southern Black Girls reflect, reconnect, and rejuvenate our spirits.

Continuing this tradition, the 2024 Black Girls Dreams Conference with an emphasis on Afrofuturism aims to inspire attendees to dream even bigger but also give them the ability to execute. Afrofuturism envisions the future of Black life, liberated from societal oppression and earthly-bound constraints.

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