a place providing opportunity for experimentation, observation, or practice in a field of study.
laboratory: (n)
Latina Leadership Lab partners with professional Latinas through the exploration of identity and culturally-relevant leadership development to overcome personal and systemic challenges to maximize their leadership potential.
“Coaching has impacted my life by facilitating the tools to become self-aware, embrace criticism, seize opportunities, brand myself, build my network, know of my worth and to share within a safe space who I am and the challenges I’ve endured.”
- Patricia, Program Specialist II, County of San Diego
Latina Leadership Lab strives…
To harness Latina's professional potential and power.
Purpose:
To be the foremost expert, scholar and provider of Latina leadership development in service of addressing the underrepresentation and exclusion of Latinas from positions of leadership and power.
Vision:
Mission:
Through culturally-relevant exploration of leadership, Latinidad and actionable ideas
for empowerment.
Like all people, we perceive the version of reality that our culture communicates.
Like others having or living in more than one culture, we get multiple, often opposing messages. The coming together of two self-consistent but habitually incomparable frames of reference causes un choque, a cultural collision.
- Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
