Young Educated Ladies Leading

During our time together, we’ll get grounded in our identity (who am I becoming?), we’ll practice using our voice (self-advocacy), and how to continuously grow and adapt to an evolving world (learning how to embrace, navigate, & manage change)

An interactive empowerment workshop for teen girls that helps students to own their personal stories. Through a collaborative storytelling icebreaker, use of creative and artistic mediums, and guided reflection activities, teens identify their resilience in the midst of overcoming obstacles and celebrating their achievements alone. By the end, girls will create a personal narrative and affirmation that reinforces their self-worth, intelligence and agency, and identity as more than capable, empowered young women and leaders of today!g the way.

Through reflection and conversation, this workshop centers community cultural wealth and the ways we learn, grow, and aspire. Together, we will explore how our interests, experiences, and relationships shape our paths and guide us as we move forward in our careers—together.

How to be a Xingona in 10 easy steps is an interactive and lively workshop inspired by Sandra Cisneros list . We story tell, chismear, and laugh our way through the list. Reminding ourselves of all the ways in which we are already Xingonas and giving ourselves new words and ways to see our gifts and talents.

This workshop would introduce legislative advocacy to students, Southern King County and Pierce County have some of the lowest voter turnouts even more so amongst youth. The only counter to this is through comprehensive civic education, ensuring students know exactly how they can get involved in changing the law and politics of their state is vital to ensuring marginalized youth remain involved in the conversations that impact them most. This workshop will teach students how the legislative process works, the avenues with which they can begin to get involved, and how to build a career out of protecting their communities.

We are constantly bombarded with opinions on how we should look, sound, and show up. But when you silence the noise, what do you actually believe about yourself? In this workshop, we’re moving past the 'shoulds' to uncover the magic in your real, non-linear story. Learn how to transform your unique experiences into your greatest competitive advantage in a world that’s waiting for what only you can offer.

Innovation requires more than ambition. It requires freedom. In this keynote, Luzy King shares her journey from financial pressure and cultural expectations to becoming a founder and angel investor, revealing how money is deeply connected to identity, memory, and inherited beliefs. Through powerful storytelling, she challenges traditional financial narratives and invites attendees to rethink their relationship with money so they can move from survival mode into ownership, clarity, and wealth-building. Because we cannot build the future while still operating from the past.

This interactive workshop centers on "RaSurrection of Truth from the Chains of Falsehood," a powerful performance that amplifies the voices and experiences of girls of color whose stories have often been silenced, distorted, or misrepresented. Through ancient wisdom and artistic expression, the piece challenges systemic falsehoods embedded in educational institutions—falsehoods that perpetuate racialized and gendered barriers to belonging, brilliance, and truth.

In this powerful and inspiring workshop, Kechi Amaefule shares her journey of overcoming adversity, reclaiming her voice, and transforming pain into purpose-driven leadership. Participants will explore how life’s challenges do not define them but can become the foundation for growth, confidence, and impact. Through honest storytelling, reflection, and practical tools, attendees will learn how to build resilience, protect their self-worth, and use their experiences as fuel for success. This session is designed to empower young women to leave with a renewed sense of identity, strength, and belief that they are not broken by what they’ve been through but they are being built for what they’re called to become.

Mambo 2 Hip Hop is a lecture and workshop series that creates a culturally immersive experiences by sharing the evolutionary journey of Afro-Indigenous artists of the Americas through music, and dance. Sharing the political and socio-economic backdrop that brought Black and Latinos together in the Bronx and how the segregation of neighborhoods became a genesis of the creation of Hip Hop. You will learn the basic similarities and differences between artists and the cultural sounds that weaved into a whole new contemporary art movement.

The Life Device Map workshop leads participants to a clearer sense of identity, direction, and confidence by helping them intentionally design the next version of themselves with purpose, power, and play.

Caring for others, whether in formal or informal roles, can be deeply meaningful and at times quietly exhausting. This session creates space to reflect on how we care for others while also caring for ourselves. Using the Restora System™, participants will explore the difference between burnout and ongoing “burn through,” identify what may be draining their energy, and learn simple ways to build restoration into daily routines. The session will also offer practical ways to support emotional awareness, reflection, and connection for those in our care, including simple practices that can be integrated into everyday interactions. Participants will leave with grounded, realistic strategies to sustain both themselves and those they support