For this assignment, students in the following pairs
(and, in one case, a triad) are required to meet before Jan. 30.
The meeting will take at least 15 to 20 minutes.
Linda and Chong
Katie and Satomi
Hanna and Eurie
Ali and Alejandro
Cha and Emily
Hajime and Dawn
Sarah and Grace
Todd and Allan
Ryo and Karyn
Alex and Francis
Jasmine and Christina Kaoh
Marc and Shane
Delphina and Michelle
Terry and Jackie
Justin and Antoinette
Steve, Sanghee, and Christine Corpus
1. Meet and briefly share some information from
each of your autobiographical essays and ways each connects their
life to history.
2. Share how each of you sees the concept of leadership
and whether currently each defines herself or himself as a leader
and why.
3. Then read the “Leadership Training Workshop”
exercise in the Class Reader (in section on Training Materials
for Student Activists). Discuss what is meant by the concept of
Shared Leadership. This is the concept of leadership we will use
in this class. Shared Leadership is the leadership style of immigrant
workers and was developed by leaders such as Philip Vera Cruz.
4. Each of you will then identify one leadership
skill that you now have and one new leadership skill that you
want to develop through work on the class projects during the
next seven weeks. Be specific about the new leadership skill that
you want to develop — for example, in past classes, students
have identified public speaking skills, social interaction skills,
meeting facilitation skills, writing skills, outreach skills,
and coordinating the work of others.
5. In class on Jan. 30, pairs will give short reports
(about two minutes per person); each student will give a report
about their partner, focusing on the leadership skill that student
currently possesses and the new leadership skill that student
wants to develop.
