About the Women’s Leadership Fellows Program and the Sara Moss Women’s Leadership Training Program
The 2025 Sara Moss Women’s Leadership Training Program (SMWLTP) will take place on campus from Monday, January 13, through Friday, January 17, 2025, before classes resume for the Spring semester. The SMWLTP is a mandatory part of the Women’s Leadership Fellows Program.
The Women’s Leadership Fellows Program offers opportunities to build essential leadership skills not otherwise taught in the law school classroom. Fellows collaborate closely as a cohort, and independently, as each participant develops their own individual, authentic leadership style. Students apply and are selected as Fellows early in their 1L year and participate in programming throughout their tenure at NYU Law.
Consideration for the Women’s Leadership Fellows Program is based on a variety of criteria. We seek students whose backgrounds, past experiences, and application responses indicate a willingness to commit to the goals and ethos of the program and an openness to developing their leadership skills individually and with other members of their cohort. We seek to build a robust inclusive cohort, and we welcome applications from any student seeking women-focused leadership training. Students of all gender identities and expressions (including but not limited to cisgender, transgender, nonbinary, gender non-conforming, and/or genderqueer) are considered. Students who have not previously had the opportunity to develop their leadership skills are encouraged to apply.
In our experience, students who are likely to get the most out of the Fellows program are those willing to seize and create opportunities to lead, exhibit resilience, demonstrate self-awareness, and practice good judgment. Successful candidates will also demonstrate alignment with the goals and mission of the Birnbaum Women's Leadership Center.
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