About
The Frederick Douglass Center for Leadership Through the Humanities is engaging diverse communities around issues of social justice and equity and creating leaders with values rooted in the humanities.
Explore The Center
About
Strategy
We are cultivating leaders who are committed to creating more equitable and just environments, in schools, nonprofits, local businesses and beyond. With the humanities at the core of all that we do, we are showing how these essential disciplines can help us understand complex social problems and imagine new and better futures.
Our mantra: Learn. Lead. Liberate.
Activities
Activities
Learning opportunities: We are leading workshops, trainings, teach-ins and more that give leaders from a range of backgrounds—from teachers to community leaders and faculty/staff—the opportunity to grow their skills in the humanities.
Community building: We are fostering a robust community of leaders and activists who are committed to social change and are rooted in the humanities.
Funding opportunities: We are providing grants and other funding to students, faculty and staff for work that embodies the ideals of the Douglass Center.
Goals
Goals
- Develop well-rounded leaders across all professions and industries who are rooted in the arts and humanities
- Cultivate unique, nuanced and thoughtful models of leadership
- Honor the legacy of Frederick Douglass
- Break down silos within the college and campus
- Transform curriculum, community and society
Director
GerShun Avilez
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs: Graduate Education and Strategic Initiatives, College of Arts and Humanities
Professor, English
Associate Dean, Douglass Center
Francis Scott Key Hall 1102A
College Park
MD,
20742