WILD - Western Institute for Leadership Development
WILD is an intensive year-long organizing and leadership development training program.
WILD (Western Institute for Leadership Development): Community Organizer Training is a year-long intensive training program for emerging organizers and activists from the Center’s eight state region.
If you’re passionate about organizing, looking to develop your skills and analysis, and rooted in a nonprofit organization working for social justice in the West, WILD could be for you!
The goals of WILD are to:
• Sharpen the organizing skills and political analysis of emerging leaders in a cross-constituency, cross-issue and peer-supported environment.
• Create a shared language for organizers from different backgrounds to talk about organizing, power, and vision to contribute to the progressive movement in the West.
• Develop participants’ proficiency in base-building, member and leader development, and volunteer recruitment and retention.
• Build relationships between organizers and leaders in the region with a commitment to long term action for change.
The 2011-2012 class of 18 emerging community organizers are from Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington. Recently, in November 2011, they convened at Menucha Retreat Center in Oregon to deepen their analysis in intersectional organizing, participate in an exercise defining power, learn how to name and frame racial justice and more.
| The WILD 2011-12 Class are: |
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| Keyla Almazan of Rural Organizing Project, Oregon |
Mikey Hortaleza of Oregon Universal |
| Christian Baeff of CAUSA, Oregon |
Stina Janssen of Tenants Union of Washington State |
| Kate Duggan of Montana Women Vote |
Moque Krape of Washington Low-Income Housing Alliance |
| Khalil Edwards of PFLAG Portland Black Chapter | Kawa Kuller of Western States Center |
| Khadija Fai of African Women’s Coalition, Oregon | Laura Martin of Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada |
| Chani Geigle-Teller of Sisters of the Road, Oregon | Kai Regidor of Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada |
| Steven Gilliam of Oregon Action |
Sarah Rossi of Montana Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic Violence |
| Rachel Gilmer of Urban League of Portland, Oregon | Tash Shatz of Basic Rights Oregon |
| Kathy Griesmyer of ACLU of Idaho |
Heather Smith of Idaho Community Action Network |
- First WILD class in 1994 (formerly known as Advanced Leadership Mentorship Program.)
