Call for Applications: Emergent Leadership Program

Masa Center is now seeking applications for its 2024 Emergent Leadership Program in Battle Creek! Participants will receive $500 for completing the program, which will take place from July 9th to August 1st. Any resident of Michigan 16 or older is eligible to apply by May 3rd.  Application link 

The program is designed to develop long-term dispositions of academic success and build community connections with participants surrounding Mexican, Latino, and broader cultural histories in Battle Creek. Through a series of workshops and community excursions, participants will increase proficiency with key leadership skills of collaboration, creativity, communication, and critical thinking. The program will help participants connect with a supportive network of peers, mentors, artists, business leaders, and educators.

There will be sessions 2 times per week to attend. These sessions will be a mix of “workshop days” where we participate in classroom workshops and “excursions” where we visit local museums, murals, government buildings, and Masa Center’s milpa learning garden. The end of the program will have a showcase of ways in which participants have decided to tell the story of what they have learned, how it shapes who they are, and connection to history. This has multi-medium options such as essays, murals, poems, art, etc.