At the heart of this commitment is our dedication to cultivate meaningful and reciprocal relationships across difference; engage with tension as a generative resource; hold space for multiplicity, ambiguity, and incommensurability; deeply examine systems and structures of power and privilege; and use our individual and collective power/privilege to intervene and catalyze change. Healthy ecological systems naturally foster increasing differentiation and complexity over time. Furthermore, diversity is the raw material for a system to adapt or evolve in response to changing conditions. We believe that a thriving planet will require differentiated and interdependent expressions of leadership that systematically address the social inequities, violence, supremacy, oppression, and human suffering in our communities. Effectively addressing these deeply rooted and complex forms of inequity will require leadership practices that are both personal and collaborative, that address immediate impacts and structural change, that draw on the wisdom of multiple ways of knowing, and that attend to relationship, love, and well being. We believe that large scale change will require shifts in human consciousness as well as a commitment to intersectionality and solidarity. (In the words of Sayra Pinto, “It is not enough to care about what matters to me. We must also care about what others care about.”)

Applications will require: Graduate College Application, Statement of Purpose, Three letters of recommendation, College transcripts, Resume, TOEFL scores for those whose native language is not English.