Sisters Center for WISDOM

A Call to Conscience: Spelman students go to
the Children's Defense Fund in Washington, DC.

For the first time, Sisters Chapel is partnering with the Children's Defense Fund, founded by Spelman alumna Marian Wright Edelman, to provide a year long internship through the WISDOM Center's Daughters of the Covenant Mentoring and Leadership Development Program.

For two months in Washington, DC beginning on June 9 and ending on August, and throughout the 2008-2009 academic year on the campus of Spelman College, Kristin Mason and Mia Dunlop, will join the Children's Defense Fund's Youth Leadership Program and support CDF's Religious Office to learn and contribute to the cause of social justice and child advocacy.

Mason and Dunlap were both were selected from a pool of Spelman students will join more than 50 summer interns from throughout the country in Washington for the program. They both will receive a stipend of $5,000 through the Sisters Chapel DOC program.

 

WISDOM: Women in Spiritual Discernment of Ministry

Spelman College Sisters Chapel has moved forward into this new millennium with both a renewed sense of mission to the religious and spiritual legacy of our founders and a broader understanding of service to diverse faith communities, the African Diaspora, the nation and the world. Now more than ever, the need to encourage young women of African descent to anchor their creative genius, intellect, and ethical leadership potential in the Holy Other is crucial.

Student Development and Leadership Training
Through the newly established Sisters Center for WISDOM, Sisters Chapel with the support of the Lilly Endowment Inc.,
now offers a range of student development and leadership training programs, including scholarships, internships, mentoring opportunities and vocational reflection forums.
(Photo: WISDOM staff and students with Rev. Jesse Jackson)

Faculty and Staff Development
For faculty and staff members, the WISDOM Center offers professional development grants, supports interdisciplinary curriculum development and sponsors educational forums through the Sisters Chapel Distinguished Lecture Series.

Community Outreach
Community outreach and networking opportunities through our dynamic vocationally and culturally based mentoring program, lecture series and faith-based collaborations provide a critical international and global infrastructure for sisters of African descent to connect spirit, religion and vocation.