Bridging Scholarship, Community, and Social Change
Waging social change takes community.
IGLI helps global researchers and activists build one.
Our Inclusive Global Leadership Initiative (IGLI) initiates research, education and programming aimed at elevating and amplifying the work that women-identified activists are doing at the grassroots to promote peace, justice and human rights around the world. IGLI embraces a commitment to non-hierarchy and feminist principles of leadership.
About the Initiative
The annual IGLI Summer Institute convenes leading women-identifying and gender non-conforming activists from the frontlines of movements to advance peace, justice, and human rights across the world, offering these activists opportunities for training, networking, and solidarity building. We invite frontline activists to apply to our annual call for applications, which we release in February.
IGLI Summer Institute
“Without community, there is no liberation, only the most vulnerable and temporary armistice between an individual and her oppression. But community must not mean a shedding of our differences, nor the pathetic pretense that these differences do not exist. ”
— Audre Lorde, in her 1979 essay, “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House”