• Disrupting Traditional Leadership and Rebuilding Community

  • Lead the Way is putting the power into the hands of the People.

  • We are redefining what leadership looks, sounds, and feels like, in order to disrupt structural barriers, injustice, inequity, and social decay in our communities.

Featured Programs

Grounded in Mission and Anchored by Your ‘Why?’

A LEAD THE WAY Intro Workshop

Community Freedom Leaders Seminar

For High School & College Students

WE WHO BELIEVE IN FREEDOM People-to-People Workshops

For Everyday Concerned People

Our Five Elements for Groundbreaking Leadership

  • Anti-oppressive Leadership Development & Capacity Building

  • Youth Leadership & Development

  • Community & Movement Building

  • Program Development & Strategic Planning

  • Civic Education & Political Development

“Anywhere there’s people, there is power.” 

– Revolutionary Fred Hampton, Youth Activist and Organizer of the Civil Rights Movement

Our Change Values

  • Commitment

  • Community

  • Collaboration

Land Acknowledgement

Lead the Way delivers programs on the occupied lands of the Piscataway and Susquehannock, the Indigenous people of what today is known as Maryland, D.C. and Virginia. We recognize the history of colonization and its impact on first peoples. Find out whose land you occupy.