Education and Training
NEW Leadership™ National Network 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@eagleton.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 (2011)
Center for Women in Government & Civil Society
University at Albany
Contact: Bonnie Beard
Director, Women in Leadership
bbeard@albany.edu
NEW Leadership™ Pennsylvania (2000)
Pennsylvania Center for Women and Politics
Chatham University
Contact:
Dana Brown
Executive Director
dbrown@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@uillinois.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: Linda Stewart Kroon
Director
linda-kroon@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 Ohio State University
The John Glenn School of Public Affairs
Contact: Cindy Holodnak
Associate Director
Holodnak.1@osu.edu
and
Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Contact: Dr. Jill Bystydzienski
Department Chair
bystydzienski.1@osu.edu
NEW Leadership™ Wisconsin (2006)
The Women’s Leadership Institute, Mount Mary College
Contact: Natalie Fuerst Strade
Director, Program Management
straden@mtmary.edu
West
NEW Leadership™ Arizona (2012)
Women's Resource Center
University of Arizona
Contact: Dr. Krista Millay
Program Director, Women's Resource Center
krista@email.arizona.edu
NEW Leadership™ Southern California (coming in 2013)
Scripps College
Contact: Gretchen-Edwalds-Gilbert
Assoicate Dean of Faculty
gedwalds@scrippscollege.edu
NEW Leadership™ Nevada (2002)
Women's Research Institute, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Contact: Joanne Goodwin
Director, Women's Research Institute of Nevada
joanne.goodwin@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: Dr. Sutapa Basu
Executive Director, Women's Center
sbasu@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
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
Women's Leadership in Public Service Institute (2010)
Gainesville State College
Contact: Kathleen Woodward
Chair of the Dept. of Political Science, Criminal Justice,
Philosophy, and Religion
kwoodward@gsc.edu
NEW Leadership™ Oklahoma (2002)
Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center
University of Oklahoma
Contact: Lauren Schueler
Assistant Director, N.E.W. Leadership
lschueler@ou.edu
NEW Leadership™ Mississippi (coming in 2013)
John C. Stennis Center for Public Service
Mississippi University for Women
Contact: Bridget Pieschel
Director, Center for Women's Research
and Policy Studies
pieschel@muw.edu
College of Charleston
Contact: Lynne E. Ford
Professor of Political Science
fordl@cofc.edu
NEW Leadership™ Texas (2012)
University of Texas at Austin
Center for Women’s and Gender Studies
Contact: Nancy Ewert
Program Coordinator
newert@austin.utexas.edu



