In addition to research, student internships, and labor education programs, the UCLA Labor Center also implements a series of innovative leadership programs throughout the year. These programs draw broad participation from labor and community organizations to train and strengthen the next wave of leadership in the social and economic justice movements. Each school provides worker-leaders and organizers a unique opportunity to understand and analyze the labor movement, the challenges to workplace justice, and the social issues impacting the movement. The schools also help participants develop organizing strategies to overcome these challenges utilizing popular education methodologies.

The Labor Center partners with union organizers and labor and popular educators to develop curricula and workshops for these popular leadership schools:

• African American Leadership School
  Contact Lola Smallwood Cuevas (213) 480-4155 x210


• Asian American Leadership School
  Contact Jan Tokumaru (213) 480-4155 x201


• Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer Leadership School
  Contact Janna Shadduck Hernández (213) 480-4155 x211 or Victor Narro (213) 480-4155 x209


• Spanish-Language Leadership School (Colegio)
  Contact Janna Shadduck Hernández (213) 480-4155 x211 or Victor Narro (213) 480-4155 x209


• Student Leadership Academy
  Contact Elizbeth Espinoza (310) 206-0812


• Summer Institute on Union Women, sponsored by the AFL-CIO and UALE, hosted by university-based Labor Centers in the western region
  Contact Lanita Morris (213) 480-4155 x212
  
  

The Labor Center views the leadership schools as part of its commitment to providing leadership development for union members, community activists, worker-leaders, and students to enable them to take on leadership roles in the struggle for workers’ rights in their organizations.