Global Youth Leadership Academy
Empowering youth around the world to develop global citizenship and leadership through civic engagement.
The Global Youth Leadership Academy@ UCLA is an effort to help shape, influence, and train the next generation of global leaders on how to leverage their unique cultural identities and histories, as well as their political and geographic diversity, to engage in collaboration and dialogue about issues that define the future of our global interdependence over the next half-century. This initiative is designed to educate, train, inspire, and empower young people by offering them access to structured and unstructured experiential learning opportunities that foster skill development, such as communication, problem-solving, and leadership, as well as social-emotional well-being, with the opportunity to hone their skills of empathy, collaboration, and teamwork.
Building a Cohort of Global Leaders
Youth groups in the United Kingdom, France, South Africa, and Zambia meet to discuss and develop leadership in their communities.
Exploring Partnerships to Invest in Future
Leaders meet to share plans, ideas, and resources for launching and sustaining the Global Youth Leadership Academy.
Sharing Lessons in Global Citizenship for Today’s Youth
Based on the legacy of tennis player and humanitarian Arthur Ashe, a civic engagement curriculum has been developed for youth groups and shared internationally.