Our Leadership Programs

A program designed to identify and recruit activists to the economic justice movement. The paid apprentices work for 3-12 months with unions and worker organizations across the nation.

The Emerging Leaders Cohort is designed for leaders in the early stages of their work.

The Executive Leadership Cohort is designed for more experienced senior leadership in unions and other worker justice organizations. 


Our Mission

WILL Empower is a bold and ambitious new initiative to identify, nurture, train, and convene a new generation of women labor leaders. WILL Empower employs a broad, multi-pronged approach that interfaces with women on multiple levels and through interwoven programs.

WILL Empower is a national program, jointly housed at Georgetown University’s Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor in Washington, DC and Rutgers University’s Center for Innovation in Worker Organization in the School of Management and Labor Relations in New Jersey.


2023 5-year Anniversary & Award Celebration – eBook

2023 5-year Anniversary & Award Celebration – Part I

2023 5-year Anniversary & Award Celebration – Part II

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