In October 2009, the Ms. Foundation for Women led a collaborative 2-day leadership symposium focused on how to most effectively advance the leadership of young women of color, transgender and gender non-conforming people of color (TGNC POC) in movements for social justice.

The conference, Leadership Development and Beyond, was a collaboration between the Ms. Foundation for Women, the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice, the New York Women’s Foundation, the Third Wave Foundation, and Women of Color Policy Network at New York University and brought together seventy-five members of the philanthropic community and leaders from social justice non-profits to identify the most strategic interventions that could be made to overcome the barriers to power facing young women leaders and TGNC leaders of color. Download Leadership Development and Beyond [pdf].