LE is now selling Oakland Freedom School 20th Anniversary commemorative shirts, hoodies, and caps. All products are available for purchase online and can be picked up at any of our OFS sites. Visit our online LE Store today! Oakland Freedom School 20th Anniversary Commemoration T-Shirt Available Sizes: S, M, L, XL, XXL $20 Sizes S M L XL XXL OFS [...]

We are no longer accepting applications, but thank you for your interest.

We are no longer accepting applications. But, thank you for your interest.

The Board of Directors and the entire LE community would like to thank brotha Saleem Shakir for his leadership and direction of Leadership Excellence over the past six years. Saleem first was hired in 2005 as the program director who managed and directed an array of programs for our youth. In 2008, the Board hired him as the Executive Directorwhere [...]

The Leadership Excellence (LE) community is calling on everyone who has ever been in contact with Leadership Excellence to reconnect to our community.

All the stars are in alignment clearing the path for Leadership Excellence (LE)’s new direction. The Board of Directors decided that future sustainability would require a robust business plan and an endowment fund. One month after the Board’s deliberation on these issues, we received a letter from a large San Francisco law firm indicating that LE was named as a recipient [...]

Source: P-Span “The Power of Radical Healing: A note to Urban Educators Who Dream and Love” was the title of Dr. Shawn Ginwright’s talk at Fall 2011 Peralta Flex Day.

Founder Dr. Shawn Ginwright has been writing extensively about the innovative strategies Leadership Excellence has been using to transform the lives of African American youth. Most recently his work was featured in Changing Places: How Communities Will Improve the Health of Boys of Color supported by the California Endowment. The book brings together experts from around the country and draws [...]

Black Youth Rising is a book that restores hope and possibility to the lives of urban black youth. In this pathbreaking account, author Shawn Ginwright details the powerful positive impact that community-based organizations can have in rebuilding the lives of urban black youth, in a process he calls radical healing. Readers can see how caring adults in a community setting [...]