Highlights

Participants
Take the Lead gives student leaders the chance to join a network of young, action-oriented women who are passionate about important issues. Many Take the Lead alumnae have changed the world in significant ways, receiving local, regional, and national recognition for their outstanding projects. See photos of past participants…

Program
The signature component of Take the Lead is the Action Project. Your project will be unique and true to your own beliefs.  Come with a project idea and we’ll help you turn it into a reality, with dynamic workshops, peer collaboration, and hands on presentations. The possibilities are boundless; take a look at some previous Action Projects in the news.

Campus
Mount Holyoke College is consistently named one of the most beautiful college campuses in the nation by the Princeton Review. Located in the Pioneer Valley, one of New England's most beautiful and intellectually vibrant locations, Mount Holyoke is 90 minutes west of Boston and three hours north of New York City. Directions to campus…

Leadership Tradition
Mount Holyoke College, sponsor of Take the Lead, is among the nation's top liberal arts colleges. As the first of the Seven Sisters—the female equivalent of the once predominantly male Ivy League—Mount Holyoke established higher education for women as a serious endeavor.

If you’re selected to participate, you’ll be learning about leadership at an institution that has a proud tradition of cultivating powerful women leaders. You will truly be tapping into the legacy of Mary Lyon, Emily Dickinson, Frances Perkins, Gloria Johnson-Powell, Kavita Ramdas, and many others who have walked through these gates. More about our history…