The APRU Asia Pacific Women in Leadership (APWiL) Mentoring Program provides international and intercultural opportunities for the empowerment, professional growth, and development of aspiring women leaders within APRU. This program matches mentors and mentees from APRU member universities of the Pacific Rim. Through one-on-one mentorship as well as seminars and hands-on workshops featuring diverse leaders, participants are able to explore tools and methods for overcoming barriers to women’s leadership.
In particular, the program intends to:
- Grow the pipeline of aspiring women leaders within APRU.
- Identify professional opportunities for growth and skills development of APRU aspiring women leaders.
- Increase awareness of challenges that aspiring women leaders face within the region.
- Connect senior leaders at APRU institutions with emerging women leaders to create an effective network and share successful strategies.
- Introduce global and intercultural dimensions to leaders across the APRU network and beyond.
- Advance ethnic, cultural, and gender diversity of participants’ institutions.
Info Session:
If you are interested in learning more about the mentor program, watch the Zoom recording from May 1
To date, 14 UO women have participated in the program and continue to meet on campus to build internal leadership capacity. Participants in the 3rd cohort include:
Mentor, Alisa Freedman, Professor, Asian Studies
Mentor, Kristin Yarris, Associate Professor, Global Studies
Mentee, Kaori Idemaru, Professor, East Asian Languages and Literatures
Mentee, Vera Keller, Professor, History
Mentee, Nadia Singh, Associate Professor, Biology
Mentee, Eleanor Vandegrift, Program Director for Global STEM Education Programs & Senior Instructor II, Global Studies Institute in the Division of Global Engagement
Mentee, Yizhao Yang, Associate Professor, School of Planning, Public Policy and Management
Apply:
The fourth cohort mentor-mentee pairs will meet one-on-one (online format) from November 2023 to October 2024. If interested in being a mentor or mentee, please email Nancy O’Brien, by June 1, 2023 with your name, department, rank, and a short paragraph on your interests in becoming a mentor or a mentee in this program.