Since 2014, we have worked with 171 young women from 59 different schools.
Music City Girls Lead!
Music City Girls Lead! is a leadership academy created and produced by Lipscomb University’s Nelson and Sue Andrews Institute for Civic Leadership in cooperation with the Champions4Women subcommittee of the Nashville Local Organizing Committee, proud host of the 2014 NCAA Final Four.
The leadership academy is a series of classes and experiences for freshman through junior high school young women, primarily from Middle Tennessee are public and private schools.
For three Saturday mornings, the young women in each academy benefit from Nashville’s deep bench of local leaders who serve as speakers and mentors and are joined by national and international experts in leadership development.
Participants gain the knowledge and develop the skills necessary for leaders in a changing world, a curriculum designed to encourage confident, ethical, action- oriented young women in their pursuit of excellence. In addition to classroom and group learning, each participant is paired with a Nashville leader for one-to-one mentoring and works in a team to design a community change project.
Who am I? Who are We? What can We do Together?
Participants answer these questions through sessions on identifying and developing individual strengths, leading ethically in a multicultural society, developing a strong personal vision and voice, mastering confident and clear communication and presentation, maintaining health and wellness, working in teams to turn ideas into results.
“I will use what I learned to create a better future for myself and other young ladies. I will impact other girls to gain more confidence and pave their own paths to success.”
