Herbert H. Lehman Center for Student Leadership and Development

10/26/2025

FREE CIVIC ENGAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP WORKSHOP📢

Want to make effective changes in your community or organization? Learn hard and soft skills on how to be a successful leader; transferable in any group. This workshop will include highlights from the Harvard Civic Engagement Series, social advocacy, and writing to governmental representatives. Receive a certificate and digital badge for Civil Service upon program completion!

📍Student Life 222
🕑Wednesday | 1 PM-2 PM
🗓Workshop 1: November 5
🗓Workshop 2: November 12- with special guest Hennessy Reyes, Chief of Staff | Senator Luis Sepulveda, New York State Senate - 32nd District. Bronx
🗓Workshop 3: November 19

⚡️Register on Lightning Connections at Clubs.Lehman.edu/forms

09/13/2025

Explore the five practices of exemplary leadership, leadership identity, and effective team building. Lessons will be released weekly through Google Classroom. Register and receive a certificate and digital badge from Intro to Leadership upon program completion!

Sign up on https://clubs.lehman.edu/submitter/form/start/691389

06/03/2025

We have been invited to volunteer at the New York Botanicals Gardens Bronx Day on Saturday, June 14th from 11am-3pm! 🙋‍♀️

Volunteers assist for these shifts:
- 9:45-1pm
- 12:45-3pm

If volunteers are available for the whole day, that’s even better! Volunteering will entail with event support such as assisting Arts & Crafts, Face Painting, and other vendors and artisans set up and facilitate their activities.

If you are interested in volunteering, please email the Leadership Center at hhlleader.center@lehman.cuny.edu with your name, email, and shift preference(s) by Tuesday, June 10th, 11:59 pm.

05/30/2025

Are you a CUNY student looking to make an impact on food justice in New York City? Are you looking to enhance your leadership skills and connect with experts in the field? Then,
consider applying to the CUNY Food Justice Fellowship!

This program is a PAID opportunity designed
to offer CUNY students training and participation in a variety of food-centered civic activities. The focus of the 2025 cohort is
food labor! Students will learn about worker’s rights in the food sector and food labor issues such as the fight for better wages and working conditions. They will work closely with a
local labor organization, gaining new skills and connections that will benefit them in their post-graduate pursuits.

Program Details
Fellowship Starts: July 7, 2025
Deadline: Extended until occupancy fills!
✨️6-week fellowship  
✨️Work with a local labor organization
✨️Hybrid sessions
✨️25-hours/week commitment
✨️20hours with host organization
✨️5 hours of food justice training

Apply Now!
Scan the QR Code or Visit: https://forms.gle/eJ5tAnytYmcnkznh8 

05/02/2025

03/25/2025

This week, The Herbert H. Lehman Leadership Center is wrapping up our workshops. Here, you can see our Public Service program, which aimed to prepare students for serving the community through student government , in their virtual class on the last day. Facilitated by Emile Zounoun , this program incorporated lessons from when he was Lehman's SGA president and skills he learned during his graduate studies at Harvard University. We are always proud of our students' growth and support from our partners.

For more information on our programs, visit https://www.lehman.edu/student-leadership/leadership-track1.php

02/11/2025

New Leadership program this semester: Public Service through SGA! Learn about being a public servant through Student Government that can transfer into other organizations and environments. Using the Social Change Model of leadership, learn how you can make effective changes in your community.

Facilitated by past SGA President, Gio Zounoun.

Register at Lightning Connections for this FREE certificate course! ⚡️
https://lehman.campuslabs.com/engage/forms

02/10/2025

Our leadership certificate programs can help students excel in their field after graduation by developing soft skill sought out by companies. Register for our FREE workshops today, on Lightning Connections, formally known as Club Central.

11/25/2024

Are you interested in getting a masters degree in organizational leadership? Organizational leadership is the practice of guiding and managing people within an organization to achieve its goals - Great to enhance any field!

11/24/2024

Congratulations to our leadership graduates from Fall 2024!🎊 Programs this semester included Introduction to Leadership + Public Speaking and Leadership for All. Some leadership students also completed an optional +10-hour volunteering to better their community.

We are very proud of your accomplishments!🫶

For more information on our leadership certificate programs, visit:
https://www.lehman.edu/student-leadership/

A huge shout out to International Programs & Community Engagement for connecting our students with community engagement opportunities!🌎

11/14/2024

Join us as we recognize the hard work of all the student leaders from clubs, student government, and our leadership certificate graduates. Celebrate with friends with food and fun activities.

Agenda
✨️3:30 PM - 5 PM: Leadership recognition
✨️5 PM - 6 PM: Social hour, including 360 camera and photographs, and wall of thanks activity

Stay from 6 pm to 8 pm for International Day of Thanks!