Dr. Mr. Robin Toma,
Secular Woman is a supporting partner of the Women's Leadership Project (WLP). Secular Woman is the first and only international or national organization focused on promoting non-religious women.
WLP is a vital and vibrant program focused on training and developing secular humanist feminist women of color, many of whom have not been exposed to a secular humanist social/gender justice curriculum. This program provides a unique experience for young women to experience learning in a different environment that is more conducive to their history, experiences, and learning.
WLP provides curriculum focused on empowering young women of color to take ownership of their lives and communities through understanding their history and opening up how they envision their future and their place in society.
Through this program they learn self-confidence; they learn to question what they see and hear; they see themselves as agents of change and leadership; they learn how to collaborate with individuals and groups, and more.
Because of their experiences in this program, participants have gone on to be professionals, scientists, and attorneys. Before this program, they might not have met a black woman scientist or learned how to question stereotyping and low expectations in STEM education. WLP allows them to hear, first hand, that others struggle with racism, sexism, homophobia, and religious discrimination. It also shows clearly that success is possible for them within our society. Additionally, participants start to see the larger societal forces of institutional oppression and become knowledgeable and experienced at understanding those forces and how they limit and dehumanize.
WLP is one of the shining programs for young humanists of color. It is vital that young women have access to the role models, leadership training and curricula that this program provides. This program produces results that are changing lives, changing our communities, and changing the future.
Secular Woman is 100% supportive of this program as a vital part of our community. We see this as a project that should be replicated and modeled across the country so that other young women can benefit from its successes.
Sincerely,
Kim Rippere
President
Secular Woman
