Herbert H. Lehman Center for Student Leadership and Development

We are always proud of our leadership cohort and this semester is no exception. Congratulations to the graduates of the Spring 2026 leadership program!🎓🎊

Sign up for a free leadership workshop in spring 2026! Featuring peer meditation and conflict resolution, leadership foundations, Civic Engagement (with a lobbying trip to Albany!), and public speaking with a creative twist, you're bound to find something valuable. Upon program completion, get a certificate and digital badge for your LinkedIn and resume!🏆

⚡️Sign up on Lightning Connections under forms, or at: https://clubs.lehman.edu/submitter/form/start/710155

We would like to congratulate all of our leadership students for completing the fall 2025 courses! We are thrilled to see your leadership development and look forward to the next chapter 🎊🏆

FREE CIVIC ENGAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP WORKSHOP📢

Want to make effective changes in your community or organization? Learn hard and soft skills on how to be a successful leader; transferable in any group. This workshop will include highlights from the Harvard Civic Engagement Series, social advocacy, and writing to governmental representatives. Receive a certificate and digital badge for Civil Service upon program completion!

📍Student Life 222
🕑Wednesday | 1 PM-2 PM
🗓Workshop 1: November 5
🗓Workshop 2: November 12- with special guest Hennessy Reyes, Chief of Staff | Senator Luis Sepulveda, New York State Senate - 32nd District. Bronx
🗓Workshop 3: November 19

⚡️Register on Lightning Connections at Clubs.Lehman.edu/forms

Explore the five practices of exemplary leadership, leadership identity, and effective team building. Lessons will be released weekly through Google Classroom. Register and receive a certificate and digital badge from Intro to Leadership upon program completion!

Sign up on https://clubs.lehman.edu/submitter/form/start/691389

We have been invited to volunteer at the New York Botanicals Gardens Bronx Day on Saturday, June 14th from 11am-3pm! 🙋‍♀️

Volunteers assist for these shifts:
- 9:45-1pm
- 12:45-3pm

If volunteers are available for the whole day, that’s even better! Volunteering will entail with event support such as assisting Arts & Crafts, Face Painting, and other vendors and artisans set up and facilitate their activities.

If you are interested in volunteering, please email the Leadership Center at [email protected] with your name, email, and shift preference(s) by Tuesday, June 10th, 11:59 pm.

Are you a CUNY student looking to make an impact on food justice in New York City? Are you looking to enhance your leadership skills and connect with experts in the field? Then,
consider applying to the CUNY Food Justice Fellowship!

This program is a PAID opportunity designed
to offer CUNY students training and participation in a variety of food-centered civic activities. The focus of the 2025 cohort is
food labor! Students will learn about worker’s rights in the food sector and food labor issues such as the fight for better wages and working conditions. They will work closely with a
local labor organization, gaining new skills and connections that will benefit them in their post-graduate pursuits.

Program Details
Fellowship Starts: July 7, 2025
Deadline: Extended until occupancy fills!
✨️6-week fellowship  
✨️Work with a local labor organization
✨️Hybrid sessions
✨️25-hours/week commitment
✨️20hours with host organization
✨️5 hours of food justice training

Apply Now!
Scan the QR Code or Visit: https://forms.gle/eJ5tAnytYmcnkznh8 

This week, The Herbert H. Lehman Leadership Center is wrapping up our workshops. Here, you can see our Public Service program, which aimed to prepare students for serving the community through student government , in their virtual class on the last day. Facilitated by Emile Zounoun , this program incorporated lessons from when he was Lehman's SGA president and skills he learned during his graduate studies at Harvard University. We are always proud of our students' growth and support from our partners.

For more information on our programs, visit https://www.lehman.edu/student-leadership/leadership-track1.php

New Leadership program this semester: Public Service through SGA! Learn about being a public servant through Student Government that can transfer into other organizations and environments. Using the Social Change Model of leadership, learn how you can make effective changes in your community.

Facilitated by past SGA President, Gio Zounoun.

Register at Lightning Connections for this FREE certificate course! ⚡️
https://lehman.campuslabs.com/engage/forms