Fall 2025: Lead-Maintaining a Community Activism Project (Part 1)

• Advance Project Goals: Develop and implement strategies to advance community-based social activism projects with the support of Girls Write Now’s resources.
• Apply Storytelling and Media Techniques: Use storytelling methods and media strategies, including producing a Lead Podcast episode, to effectively convey your project’s message and engage your community.
• Exercise Leadership and Facilitate Engagement: Take on leadership roles, manage project initiatives, and facilitate a community studio to foster collaboration and support for your cause.
• Execute and Manage Community Projects: Implement and oversee your community project, applying organizational skills and leadership to drive progress and address community needs.
• Evaluate Impact and Enhance Skills: Assess the effectiveness and outcomes of your project, evaluate its impact on the community, and strengthen your leadership and activism skills through practical experience and mentorship.

• Attend journey live sessions 
• Have at least 2 pair sessions per month
• Complete the course
• Maintain continuous project implementation
• Create an episode for the Lead Podcast, featuring an interview with an expert in your project’s cause
• Potentially, facilitate a community studio
• Deliver a project presentation

• Lead: Maintaining a Community Activism Project (Part 1 and 2)
  This course provides participants with strategies and tools to effectively sustain and manage their community-based social activism initiatives, while guiding mentees through the planning and production of their podcast episodes.

If you are teaching a community studio, you will also have access to the course:

• Teach GWN: Facilitating Community Studios
  This course provides training in the techniques and best practices for leading and managing community studio sessions. It focuses on creating engaging and productive environments that support learning and collaboration among participants.

Mentees and mentors in the Lead Incubator Journey are required to attend monthly meetings, held on Saturdays from 3:15 to 4:45 PM.

Lead Incubator Virtual Journey Meetings: 

Fall Cycle:

• Saturday, November 15, 2025, 3:15 pm ET
• Saturday, December 13, 2025, 3:15 pm ET
• Saturday, January 10, 2026, 3:15 pm ET

Spring Cycle:

• Saturday, March 14, 2026, 3:15 pm ET
• Saturday, April 18, 2026, 3:15 pm ET
• Saturday, May 16, 2026, 3:15 pm ET

Additionally, mentees may facilitate one monthly community studio (3 sessions/cycle), preferably with a focus on leadership. The weekday, time, and exact dates for your facilitated studio sessions will be determined based on your schedule before the journey begins and you will be invited to the Teach GWN orientation.

Mentees will submit a fully produced Lead Podcast episode. Please see instructions in the course.