S.O.U.L Sisters supports new leaders that have "lived and breathed" the inequalities of our legal, educational, and economic systems.

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  • Applications Now Open: NYC Youth Leaders Board 2018 – 2019

    Posted by Jamy Drapeza on September 19, 2018

    Message from our NYC YLB Coordinator Jaryanna Rivera:   Hi my name is Jary Rivera and I am the YLB Coordinator for S.O.U.L Sisters Leadership Collective in New York City. S.O.U.L Sisters is a youth leadership organization for girls, femmes and gender nonconforming youth of color. Our goal is for our youth to develop skills in leadership, community organizing, fundraising,...
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  • NYC YLB Ask #WhatWouldYouPack

    Posted by Jamy Drapeza on August 7, 2018

    By Zoe Cole, NYC Intern Edited by Jamy Drapeza, NYC Program Manager Bags and signs placed around the police barricades Photo Credit: Asian American Federation “The deportation machine has many layers. We invite you to join us in an action that will bring to light one such layer—invisible to many—that profoundly marks the lives of our friends, our neighbors. When...
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  • Here Comes the Boom: An Assembly For Women and Girls

    Posted by Jamy Drapeza on June 11, 2018

    With the Florida March for Black Women, we made history. Almost 1,000 Black women, girls, femmes, and their allies joined us to take the streets of Miami, demanding that we are heard and celebrated. And that was just the beginning. Here Comes the Boom: An Assembly for Black Women and Girls is a conference planned by a dynamic coalition of...
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SOUL Sisters in a healing circle

S.O.U.L. Sisters Leadership Collective envisions a world in which young women and femmes of color reclaim lives of authenticity, joy, and freedom through restorative justice, collective leadership, creative expression, and radical abolitionist healing.

SSLC grew out of a 2013 two-week leadership seminar based on Sadie Nash Leadership Project Sisterhood Model and was co-created by Executive Director Wakumi Douglas and court-involved girls ages 14-17. Positive results, including increased school attendance, zero recidivism and improved self-concept, led to our further development of the two-week project into the organization that exists today. S.O.U.L Sisters Leadership Collective was incorporated in August 2014 in New York City and Miami.

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