LedBy Her

Annual Fellowship Program

A 4-month intensive Summer leadership program, free of cost, for high-potential Indian Muslim Women currently in college

Components:

In-person retreats | Workshops | Executive Coaching | 1:1 Mentorship | Speaker sessions

Round 1 Applications for the General Fellowship Program 2021 are closed. The results will be announced on 14 January 2021.

A look at our 2021 LedBy Her Fellowship

Why apply?

We are a 4 month co-curricular, rigorous, intensive Summer leadership fellowship, where young Indian Muslim Women are provided with:

programming that includes workshops/modules on negotiations, growth mindset, adaptive leadership, personal narrative, and mindfulness
Mentoring ecosystem that provides access to industry experts, and community role models
Specialized support via a peer network of women from similar backgrounds and high ambitions

What are we looking for?

High-potential, young Indian Muslim Women who are ambitious and are looking for an environment that understands and supports the unique experiences and journeys of Indian Muslim women. We will select 24 women to participate in the fellowship, who will go through this transformative and empowering journey. Our goal is to create collaborative, nurturing, and confident professionals which in turn will support a socially inclusive and equitable story of India’s growth.

When do I apply?

Round 1 applications are closed for the 2021 LedBy fellowship program! Applications for 2022 cohort will be open in October 2021.

LedBy FellowshipTimeline

1

1 October 2020

Round 2 applications closed on 15 December 2020

2

14 Jan 2021

Round 2 invites go out to the selected applicants

3

14 March 2021

Interview invites go out to the selected applicants

4

21 May 2021

The final selection list will be declared

5

6 June to 15 October 2021

Fellowship Program

What does the fellowship offer?

Professional Skills

Presentation Skills

Team Building exercises

Negotiation

Adaptive leadership

Executive coaching

Research Grant

360 degree Mentorship

Access to Advisors-in-residence: Our in-house industry experts & community leaders

Peer Mentoring

Mentoring a School going girl

Personal Development

Growth Mindset

Mindfulness

Story Telling

Personal Narrative

Eligibility Criteria

You are eligible for the fellowship if you

Identify yourself as an Indian Muslim Woma(x)n
Are no more than two years away from completing a full-time undergraduate degree ( that means, is in 3rd or 4th years of a 4-year program; 2nd or 3rd year of a 3-year program) or
Are in a full-time postgraduate program of one or two years duration, and
Physically reside in India

2020 Fellows

A group of highly talented young women who have graduated from the fellowship in 2020

Advisors-in-Residence

The Foundation has brought together high-achieving Indian Muslim women to nurture, inspire and encourage our fellows

Workshop Facilitators

The Foundation has brought together international experts associated with the best institutions to nurture and encourage our fellows

A look at 2020 fellowship workshops

Why Not Loiter? Widening Women’s Access to Public Space | Sameera Khan

To encourage the students to look at the issue of women and public space with a new lens. Starting with an interactive exercise, the workshop will lay out a few key ideas of how women and men access and use public space and explain why merely pushing for women’s safety in public space is in itself a limited goal. Taking up ideas that have been popularised by the book ‘Why Loiter? Women & Risk on Mumbai Streets’, the workshop will engage with strategies such as ‘risk’ and ‘loitering’ and why these may be useful in opening up ways of providing women more real access to public space and also opportunities to reclaim the public as a place for pleasure.

Career Negotiation Coaching Program | Joan Moon

The Career Negotiation Coaching Program (CNCP) is an individualized negotiation coaching program from the Kennedy School Negotiation Project created with the goal of assisting individuals in the negotiation process. This program is a result of multiple iterations of negotiation coaching pilots and feedback. It is based on decades of research including studies of professionals in the public, non-profit, and private sectors, in seven global regions, and of how factors, such as race, gender, and culture, influence negotiation.

Hub Dot | Simona Barbieri

Hub Dot is a unique social enterprise, committed to making meaningful connections for people across the globe, with levelled, inclusive events, programmes and experiences that transcend barriers, labels and status. Our mission is to amplify all human voices, by providing a platform for human stories that can be transformative both on an individual and a societal level.

With eight years of experience working with storytellers to find the power in their own stories, Hub Dot offers storytelling workshops to empower individuals to find their unique voices. Whether it’s stories of triumph, failure, reinvention, entrepreneurship, adversity and beyond. Hub Dot nurtures the human desire to share stories and helps people to free themselves of the labels, the barriers and the fear of judgement that can prevent so many from expressing their true, multi-faceted, human selves.

Storytelling and Personal Empowerment | Sharon D'Agostino

In this one-hour Storytelling and Personal Empowerment workshop, the Led By Foundation Fellows will explore the importance of their personal narratives - their stories - in creating their sense of personal empowerment. The workshop will include an exploration of default storylines; the frequency with which disempowering themes are voiced in their personal and professional conversations; the role of other people’s stories; and time for the Fellows to begin developing more empowering storylines for an updated version of their personal narrative.