The core components of the Ella Baker Women's Center Approach

Ms. Baker's Group Centered Leadership Approach

• Tap into local knowledge to construct models of social change
• Think in radical terms: Question to find the root causes of oppression
• Do institutional analyses: What needs to be corrected to balance the power? (Hint: Tilt toward the least powerful.)
• Create participative spaces for youth voices to be elevated
  

The Leadership capacity building approach to carrying out social justice leadership activities

• Personal Leadership is tied to individual routes to collective action
• Organizational Leadership expands on the role of young people as decision makers
• Community Leadership focuses on youth organizing as a catalyst for community change