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February 2014
Sign up for Camp Cultural Leadership!   
  

Applications are now available for Camp Cultural Leadership, a two-week summer camp for rising 7th, 8th, and 9th graders will be held at Brittany Woods Middle School in the University City School District. The camp introduces and reinforces social justice concepts and ties them to leadership skills, similar to our award-winning high-school program. Students will:

  • increase cultural awareness through hands-on activities;
  • take an overnight trip to Memphis to meet with people and see places important to civil rights, social justice and democracy;
  • develop leadership skills.
There will be two sessions:
July 7-July 18 and July 21-August 1.

Camp will run Monday through Friday, 9:30 am to 2:30 pm. For an additional fee, before and after care will be available (8:30 am-5:00 pm). During camp, students will take a two day; one night trip.  

There is a $600 program fee to participate in Camp Cultural Leadership. This program fee will cover the costs for the two-week camp and the overnight trip. Limited financial aid will be available. 


 


Join Class 10 of Cultural Leadership  
  Class 9 Graduation




 

We are now accepting applications for our tenth class of "troublemakers of the best kind." During our year-long, educational leadership program, students become social justice activists and change agents, learning through the lens of the African American and Jewish experience. Students meet over the course of a year - 460 hours in all, which includes three weekend retreats, monthly meetings, and a three week summer transformational journey covering much of the east coast and the "deep south." Cultural Leadership opens students' eyes to problems that often go unnoticed in our communities, such as racism, anti-Semitism, poverty and oppression. 

 

If you are currently a freshman or sophomore in high school and would like more information on Cultural Leadership, or an application, visit our website or contact the office at (314) 725-3222.


An information session will be held on Wed. March 5, 7pm, at the Jewish Federation of St. Louis.
We Love You! 
  We love you for supporting Cultural Leadership.
We love having you in the Cultural Leadership family.
We love you for believing in our mission to train young people to become "troublemakers of the best kind."
We love you and want you to be our valentine!


In the community... 

  

Six Class 9 students were featured on the Tuesday, February 11 episode of Nick News with Linda Ellerbee. If you missed the original broadcast, please click HERE to watch.



Students from Classes 8 and 9 joined the community marching on Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday. They chanted and sang while marching from the Old Courthouse to Powell Symphony Hall.



If you have a speaking or facilitation opportunity that you would like our alumni to be part of, please email mharris@culturalleadership.org or call (314) 725-3222.
Alumni Corner 

    

Cultural Leadership Alumni Blog to Launch in March!
- looking for bloggers!
- to get involved, email intern Chris Hamm at
developmentassistant@culturalleadership.org. 

 

Thanks to Brian Hamilton, Aaron Johnson, Hayley Levy, Sonya McCanna, Jasmine McCurry, Erik Mills, Elliott Kleiman, Tari Nussinov, and our other alumni callers for your help with our annual Alumni Phone-A-Thon, we raised $589. Alumni support makes programming for future classes possible. Please send in your pledge, if you have not done so already.

 

Thanks also to our alumni recruitment volunteers - Emma Ehll, Erik Mills, Tari Nussinov, who recently attended summer camp fairs and spoke about their experience in Cultural Leadership.
Scholarship Opportunities 

   

Regions Bank is offering the Regions Riding Forward Scholarship Essay Contest, for high school seniors and college freshman, sophomores, and juniors. For more information, click here.

The 100 Black Men of Metropolitan St. Louis present the 2014 "Black History Essay Contest" for high school seniors. Due February 28, 2014. For info about the scholarship, click here.

Sign up for Scholarship Central, part of St. Louis Graduates. There are tons of local and national scholarships on this site. To learn more about St. Louis Graduates, click here.
In This Issue
Camp Cultural Leadership
Class 10
Support Cultural Leadership
In the Community
Alumni Corner
Scholarship Opportunities
 
When our students see a problem, they grab an ally, or two or three,
roll up their sleeves, and get to work.