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Young Women of Color (YWOC) Consortium
The Young Women of Color Consortium is dedicated to fostering an inclusive and supportive community. We invite all individuals—regardless of identity or status—who are committed to our goals of empowerment, academic success, and leadership development to participate. Everyone aligned with these principles is welcome here.
The California State University Young Women of Color (YWOC) Consortium is an initiative being piloted and led by Sacramento State to create an atmosphere of support, belonging, leadership and success for young women of color. The mission of the consortium is designed to foster the achievement of women leaders, faculty, staff, community members and students to reach their highest heights in pursuit of their academic, personal, career, and life success attainment goals.
For more information about CSU YWOC, please contact Dr. Marcellene Watson-Derbigny, Associate Vice President, Student Retention and Academic Success at watsonml@csus.edu.
Key Objectives
- Creating multiple campus synergies to elevate and arm campus support programs and efforts to successfully reach and engage female students, faculty, staff, and community partners
- Support the goals of the Graduation Initiative by providing an infrastructure for purposeful intervention and collective actions to help female students succeed on their respective campuses and in the CSU as a whole
- Offer virtual meetings and convenings to provide support for issues faced by women
- Provide a professional network that cultivates career amplification, career support, and career elevation for women leaders, students, faculty, and staff
- Host trainings and conferences to support the success goals and trajectory of women in higher education