Chapter 9: Using Anti-Racist Approaches in Leadership Program Administration

In my daily work, I lead a department that engages students, faculty, and staff in leadership development. The department is well known for cohortbased selective scholarship programs as well as leadership seminars and workshops. The culture of the department empowers students to lead, giving them opportunities to be fellow leadership educators as well as community leaders moving forward social change. Therefore, every day I have the privilege of interacting with student leaders. As the students and I discuss leadership, they often reference the COVID pandemic and the racial unrest of 2020 as a life-altering time. This experience was a formative moment for many young leaders, but what exactly did they learn?