SD Student Leaders Gather in DC for Leadership Retreat
Friday, September 2, 2011
(Sustained Dialogue Campus Network)
Student leaders from twelve schools
convened in August in Washington, DC for SDCN's
2011 Student Leadership Retreat. Bursting with
enthusiasm for the mission of "engaging
differences as strengths," the students
developed strategies to make change on their
campuses.
Highlights Include:
- Thanks to a generous donor, students attended the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company's production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Clybourne Park. The play challenged the audience to ask whether American attitudes toward race and gentrification have changed in the last fifty years.
Student Leaders at the Woolly Mammoth
Theatre Company
- David Urso,
author of The Everyday Hero's Guide to
Leadership, called on the students
to assess their core values to become better
leaders.
- Vernon Wall, founding faculty member of the Social Justice Training Institute, engaged students with his "Five Things to Ponder."
- The students received expert organizing advice from Princeton Sustained Dialogue alumni Teddy Nemeroff and Sian ÓFaoláin.
- At the student-alumni networking dinner, Butch Trusty, a manager in The Bridgespan Group's New York office, shared his experiences with SD at Bridgespan and encouraged the group to pursue their passions after graduation.
- Mike Lamb,
special assistant for civil rights in the
Department of Education, discussed the
importance of sharing personal stories as an
organizing technique.
- The students wrapped up four days of intense training by presenting their action plans and goals for the year. In their action plans students paid special attention to being a campus resource if bias incidents or hate crimes occur on campus.