Jelani means “power/strength and greatness”, and here relates to the creation and implementation of a leadership programme to support young women of colour (YWOC) to lead with impact, grow resilience and gain fulfilment while they navigate aspirationally inclusive but dominant white cultures and workspaces. The project aims to realign leadership skills development, which typically adopts a deficiency narrative, but here instead intends to pull together collective, individual and cultural dimensions. In this way it aims to build a holistic mode of being towards evolving resilience, ways of working and re-building communities to face the climate and extinction crises emerging. Beneficiaries: Pilot project for 15-20 YWOC aged 20-32 from disadvantaged backgrounds from the UK. Secondary beneficiaries: organisations and wider communities.
Emergence Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales, no. 1050701.
