Apply for the Birnbaum Women’s Leadership Center’s (BWLC) Women’s Leadership Fellows Program (WLFP)! The application for the Fellows Program opens this week on Thursday, August 28, at 9:30 a.m. The application will remain open until Tuesday, September 30, at 11:59 p.m., and the cohort will be selected in early November. Due to the nature of the program, the Fellows Program is only open to 1L JD students at NYU Law. We invite interested students to visit the BWLC table at the Student Groups Fair on Tuesday, September 9, at 5-6 p.m. and our Fellows Program Information Session on Monday, September 15, at 5-6 p.m.
The Fellows Program is a co-curricular leadership development opportunity for 10-12 students in which participants will build key leadership skills. Students apply and are selected as Fellows in the fall of their 1L year and participate in programming throughout their time at NYU Law. The WLFP begins with the Sara Moss Women’s Leadership Training Program, a rigorous week-long leadership development program for 1L Fellows that combines self-assessment, instruction, experiential learning, team-building, coaching, and mentoring. Each Fellow will receive a stipend of $2,500 in their 1L year. Due to the three-year nature of this program, it is only open to 1L JD students. The 2025 Sara Moss Women’s Leadership Training Program is scheduled to take place January 12-16, 2026, before classes resume for the Spring 2026 semester.
We welcome applications from any first-year JD student at NYU Law seeking leadership training. Students of all gender identities and expressions (including, but not limited to, cisgender, transgender, nonbinary, gender non-conforming, and/or genderqueer) are considered. Students who have not previously had the opportunity to develop their leadership skills are encouraged to apply.
More information about the Fellows Program, including a link to the application and a list of FAQ, is available on the BWLC website. If you have any questions, please email us at womensleadership@nyu.edu. We also hope you will join us at our annual student workshop, Suddenly Silent: Strategies to Stand Up and Speak Out, on Tuesday, October 21, at 5 p.m.