Sister-to-Sister Young Feminist Leadership Program 2026 – YOA

Deadline: June 26, 2026

Applications are open for the Sister-to-Sister Young Feminist Leadership Program 2026. The Sister-to-Sister program brings collectively younger feminist leaders — sisters — in an intensive digital program which fosters essential solidarity, assist, sisterhood, and abilities-constructing to raised equip activists for the challenges forward.

Over the previous ten years, the Sister-to-Sister Young Feminist Leadership Program has supplied important assist and coaching to inspiring younger feminist activists from world wide. Designed to strengthen individuals’ management, advocacy, and grassroots organizing abilities, this system provides a secure and supportive atmosphere for progress, connection, and confidence-constructing.

The 2026 version, themed “Peace in the Age of AI: Building Feminist Futures,” is impressed by the work of Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Maria Ressa and focuses on the intersection of synthetic intelligence, disinformation, and feminist peacebuilding. Through six weeks of on-line studying and international solidarity, individuals will emerge higher geared up to navigate, problem, and reshape how rising applied sciences are ruled — in service of peace, justice, and gender equality of their communities and past.

Benefits

• To guarantee chosen Sisters are capable of totally take part, an honorarium might be supplied to chose individuals on the finish of this system. This honorarium is meant to contribute to web entry, workspace, transportation, care obligations and different potential boundaries to participation.

In order to obtain the honorarium, chosen candidates should provide full, legitimate financial institution particulars. 

Eligibility

• Applicants from East Africa and the next international locations are extremely inspired to apply:  Philippines, Liberia, Sudan, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Iran, Iraq, Occupied Palestinian Territory, Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan, Myanmar, Colombia, Haiti, Ukraine, Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico. 
• Passion for and a few expertise in supporting feminist peacebuilding, girls’s rights, digital rights, and/or feminist social justice actions as volunteers, professionals, or activists. 
• Drive and potential to be an impactful feminist chief inside native contexts. 
• Able to successfully have interaction in English. 
• Willing and capable of decide to full participation in no less than 80% of dwell, cohort-extensive periods. 
• Candidates have to be between 18–35 years previous. 
• Trans and non-binary activists are inspired to apply. 

Application

To be thought-about, candidate purposes are due earlier than 11:59pm ET, on 26 June, 2026. Applications ought to embody:

• A private letter or video (max 2 minutes or 1 web page) outlining how the candidate has been contributing to feminist peace, digital rights, social and/or environmental justice; the first challenges of their context (contextually / personally / professionally); and the way they hope this system will profit them and their work. 
• Current resume, with updated, detailed expertise (paid, volunteer, educational). 
• Reference letter from a feminist peace, social or digital rights activist or group, with contact particulars for observe up. 

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to Sister-to-Sister Young Feminist Leadership Program.