Applications for the Spring '25 MLE Cohort can be found HERE. 

In a collaboration with The Mosaic: Center for Cultural Diversity and Campus Life, “The Multicultural Leadership Experience (MLE)” seeks to: 

• Engage participants in a multicultural development and leadership learning program.

• Enhance participants' understanding of their social identities, leadership identity, as well as their capacity to lead while navigating systems of power, privilege, and oppression.

• Enable participants' development through authenticity, self-awareness, relationships, and capitalizing on differences. 

The sessions are as follows:

- Meeting #1: Tuesday, February 11th, 3pm - 4:15pm

- Meeting #2: Tuesday, February 25th,  3pm - 4:15pm

- Meeting #3: Tuesday, March 11th, 3pm - 4:15pm

- Meeting #4: Tuesday, April 1st,  3pm - 4:15pm

- Meeting #5: Tuesday, April 15th,  3pm - 4:15pm

- Meeting #6: Tuesday, April 29th,  3pm - 4:15pm

- Meeting #7 & Celebration: Tuesday, May 6th,  3pm - 5pm 

***All sessions will take place in The Commons (room location will be specified in a Google calendar invite)***

Participants will be exploring the concept of Authentic Leadership, Legacy Building, and Breaking Barriers of White Supremacy within Leadership. We will do this in a leadership learning cohort by: 

• Enhancing participants' leader identity and leadership capacity using an identity-conscious lens and student development theories;

• Increasing participants' awareness of their personal abilities, identity development, and intersections that shape their story through authenticity, self-reflection, and cultural humility;

• Exploring the role they play in developing relationships while building intra/intercultural connections; 

• And capitalizing on their differences, specifically in relation to their racial, ethnic, national, and other salient identity social groups

The purpose of all MLE programs is to provide a space for students and student leaders who identify within diverse or marginalized backgrounds to discover their own capacity to lead, while also promoting a better understanding of their experiences, issues, strengths, and outcomes in navigating their own collegiate careers. However, ALL students are welcome to apply!   

Registration is due Friday, January 31st, 2025 at 11:59pm. Both undergraduate and graduate students are eligible to participate. In order to be accepted into the program you must commit to all sessions in person. Please answer all of the questions before submitting your registration. Any questions can be sent to i3b@umbc.edu. Again you can find the link to apply here. 

--- Angelina R. Jenkins (Assistant Director, The Mosaic) & Meghna Chandrasekaran (Mosaic Programming Intern)