Education and Training
NEW Leadership™ Development Network (NLDN) Partner Programs
Northeast
NEW Leadership™ New Jersey
Center for American Women and Politics
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Contact: Sasha Patterson
NEW Leadership™ Program Manager
sashap@rci.rutgers.edu
Maine NEW Leadership™ (first program 2009)
Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center, University of Maine
Contact: Mary Cathcart
Sr. Policy Associate
mary.r.cathcart@umit.maine.edu
NEW Leadership™ New England (2008)
New Hampshire Institute of Politics
Saint Anselm College
Contact: Dr. Elizabeth P. Ossoff
Professor Dept of Psychology
eossoff@anselm.edu
NEW Leadership New York (coming in 2011)
Center for Women in Government & Civil Society
University at Albany
Contact: Cara Long
Program Coordinator
clong@uamail.albany.edu
NEW Leadership™ Pennsylvania (2000)
Center for Women, Politics and Public Policy
Chatham University
Contact:
Lauren Hurley
Program Coordinator
lhurley@chatham.edu
Midwest
NEW Leadership™ Illinois (2006)
Institute of Government and Public Affairs
University of Illinois, Chicago
and Conference of Women Legislators (COWL)
Contact: Kathy Harrington Sullivan
Project Coordinator, IGPA
sulliva@illinois.edu
Deborah Murphy
Executive Director, COWL
cowl.ilga@yahoo.com.
Iowa N.E. W. Leadership (2008)
Women’s Resource and Action Center, University of Iowa
Contact: Kelly Thornburg
N.E.W. Leadership Coordinator
kelly-dauplaisethornburg@uiowa.edu
Tri-College NEW Leadership™ (2004)
Minnesota State University Moorhead
North Dakota State University
Concordia College
Contact: Deborah White
Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice
whitede@mnstate.edu
21st Century Leadership Academy (1998)
Sue Shear Institute for Women in Public Life
University of Missouri, St. Louis
Contact: Dayna Stock
Director, 21st Century Leadership Academy
dstock@umsl.edu
NEW Leadership™ Ohio (2002)
The John Glenn School of Public Affairs
and
Department of Women's Studies
The Ohio State University
Contact: Cindy Holodnak
Associate Director
Holodnak.1@osu.edu
NEW Leadership™ Wisconsin (2006)
The Women’s Leadership Institute, Mount Mary College
Conact: Yvonne Lumsden-Dill
Executive Director, Women’s Leadership Institute
lumsdeny@mtmary.edu
West
NEW Leadership™ Nevada (2002)
Women's Research Institute, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Contact: Diana Thu-Thao Rhodes
Program Manager for Educational Outreach
wrin@unlv.edu
NEW Leadership™ Oregon (2004)
Mark O. Hatfield School of Government
Center for Women, Politics & Policy
Portland State University
Contact: Sunny Petit
Assistant Director, NEW Leadership Oregon
nlormail@pdx.edu
NEW Leadership™ Puget Sound (2001)
University of Washington, Seattle
Contact: Christine DiStefano
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
newlead@u.washington.edu
NEW Leadership™ Inland Northwest (2002)
Women's Resource Center, Washington State University
Contact: Turea Erwin
Director, Women’s Resource Center
turea_erwin@wsu.edu
New Leadership Rocky Mountain West (coming in 2011)
The Women’s College of the University of Denver
Contact: Susan J. Tyburski, J. D.
Lecturer, Law and Society
stybursk@du.edu
South
Women’s Leadership Institute (2004)
Women’s Leadership Institute, Auburn University, Alabama
Contact: Barbara A. Baker
Director, Women's Leadership Institute
bab0011@auburn.edu
NEW Leadership Georgia (coming in 2010)
Gainesville State College
Contact: Kathleen Woodward
Assistant Professor
kwoodward@gsc.edu
NEW Leadership™ Oklahoma (2002)
Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center
University of Oklahoma
Contact: Katie Fitzgerald, Director
Women's Leadership Programs
kfitzgerald@ou.edu



