Leadership for Social Impact
Lead with purpose
Transform your passion for social change into effective skills with a minor in leadership for social impact.
Join a community that shares enthusiasm and an eagerness to advance social justice, environmental protection, diversity and inclusion, poverty alleviation, climate change, and healthcare access.
This program will help you develop the knowledge and practical understanding needed to become a leader who communicates effectively and collaborates well with others. You will learn how various organizations work (government, for-profit, nonprofit), and explore exemplary and personal leadership through a relational, inclusive, and equitable lens.
The program incorporates service-learning opportunities and offers many options to tailor your program to your academic journey. This minor complements any major, with highly interactive courses that tap into your interests while inspiring you to envision — and actualize — a new future.
Our Faculty
Mary Shapiro
Adjunct Faculty & Institute Fellow
Spotlight on Leadership for Social Impact Students and Alums
From Soldier to Student: Rebecca Mitchell ’22 on the Empowering Environment of Simmons
After ten years in the military, Rebecca Mitchell ’22 is embracing civilian life. In fall 2020, she enrolled at Simmons as an undergraduate for a second bachelor’s degree, via the Post-9/11 GI Bill.