The New Leadership Networking Initiative (NLNI) is part of the Civil Liberties and Public Policy Program at Hampshire College’s overall effort to diversify the reproductive rights movement with new vision, voices and leadership. To work toward this goal, NLNI fosters new collaborative work between organizations, nurtures young leadership and sparks campus organizing. NLNI is a forum for bringing together a diverse group of young people engaged in reproductive rights work from a variety of organizations, including those organizations which are not always included in the movement, like welfare and immigrant rights groups. We work actively to ensure that our discussions are conscious of and sensitive to the ways in which racism, classism, sexism, heterosexism, transphobia, ableism, ageism and educational privilege affect our movements and our work. NLNI is committed to changing the face of the movement by confronting issues of movement diversity, creating new strategies and messages to represent the movement, and building a network of young leaders who can support one another. NLNI has an ever-changing membership, as participants move to different organizations or different jobs and more young people join the movement. NLNI must retain a flexibility to accommodate this rolling membership, while remaining stable and dynamic enough to support returning members as they continue their work in the movement. The New Leadership Networking Initiative (NLNI) is a project of the Civil Liberties and Public Policy Program at Hampshire College (http://clpp.hampshire.edu). For more information, Corinna Yazbek at 413.559.5859 or cyazbek@hampshire.edu.
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