The Californer - 50/50 Leadership To Have Second Round Of Interns For Our Youth Leadership Program

50/50 Leadership is happy to have 12 new participants join our Youth Leadership Program

PASADENA, Calif. - Californer -- 50/50 Leadership is elated to announce the beginning of its eight-week Youth Leadership Internship Program this fall, which began on September 19th and concludes on November 14th.

The 50/50 Youth Leadership Program is a personal and professional development internship, based on assigning young people leadership skills to guide them along their journey from passionate activism to leadership with a focus on documentary filmmaking, STEM, and financial literacy for youth. We focus on providing students with opportunities for career and college readiness.

Through this 8-week experience, high school junior and senior interns will complete a project of value in their assigned area, participate in skills-building workshops, while connecting with professionals & youth leaders who serve as project mentors. Youth Leadership Program (YLP) training will focus on building self-confidence, accountability, and long-term goal setting skills. YLP team members have the opportunity to return the following semester as group leaders for future participants. YLP alumni are invited to speak at the 50/50 Youth Leadership Summit.

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Great movements begin with passionate activists sharing their stories and buildingeffective narratives. We believe young leaders need more opportunities to create stories allowing their voices to be heard. We support opportunities for youth leadership to build and share narratives through education, advocacy, and public speaking.

Each intern has a range of assignments within the eight weeks of the program, "where they are contributing to the mission of promoting equality for women in leadership roles" said Program Coordinator and Chair, Lisa Haukom.

About 50/50 Leadership: 50/50 Leadership is a non-profit organization committed to empowering, educating, and inspiring women from all walks of life tobecome leaders. Founded in 2004 by Pauline Field, to shift culture so that women and men are equally likely to be leaders, the company provides a wide range of financial literacy programs, now held virtually, for women across America who have been in foster care, incarcerated, who have suffered from domestic violence, or have experienced homelessness.

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Students attend weekly workshops via Zoom where they attend presentations, and receive peer-to-peer feedback on their projects. If you are a student, educator, or school who would like to join us, please contact Lisa Haukom, Volunteer & Intern Chair, interns@5050leadership.org.