EDGE Academy Workshop
Pan-African Carribean
Youth Leadership Workshop
Ages 15–19 · Virtual · Group & Individual Work · Live Facilitation
Your Voice
Your Heritage
Your Time to Lead
Overview:
This is not a program about someday. This is about right now.
The Pan-African Caribbean Youth Leadership Workshop was born from a simple but powerful truth — that the young people of the African and Caribbean diaspora are not leaders in the making. They are leaders already. What they need is a space that sees them, challenges them, and connects them to each other and to the world.
Rooted in Ubuntu, “I am because we are," this workshop is a four-week journey that bridges Africa, the Caribbean, and the diaspora. It affirms identity as a source of strength, builds the skills to communicate, advocate, create, problem-solve, and lead, and connects young people across borders who share a common heritage and an uncommon future.
Who this
is for?
Ages 15–19 · Virtual · Group & Individual Work · Live Facilitation
Ages 15–19
Future Leaders
(Now recruiting)
You have something to say. This is where you learn to say it — and where the world starts listening.
Ages 20–35 — Rising Leaders (Launch in 2027)
You are already moving. This workshop gives you the tools, the community, and the confidence to lead with intention — not someday, but now.
What will
you gain?
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A deep understanding of who you are and where you come from culturally as a leader
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The skills to communicate powerfully across cultures and social contexts
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The confidence to pitch ideas, advocate causes, and move people to action
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Ability to identify and solve community problems
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A global network of peers who are rising alongside you
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A meaningful certificate that reflects real job skills and critical thinking
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The opportunity to become an Ambassador for the program (This is a link that explains the role of the Ambassador)
Workshop Components
Week 1 — Roots:
Who Am I?
Identity, culture, values, basic assumptions, and self-concept are foundational to leadership. Select your work group. Reflective journaling, community circle discussions, and Ubuntu-centered activities that connect inner strength to outer impact.
Week 3 — Connection: How Do We Rise Together?
Collaboration, conflict resolution, and building across differences. Ubuntu in action — learning how to lift others while you rise. Community engagement. Research. Data collection.
Week 2 — Voice:
How Do I Speak?
Communication skills across contexts: public speaking, advocacy, intercultural dialogue, and storytelling. Because your voice is your most powerful leadership tool. Identifying a community problem within the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Problem-solving model.
Week 4 — Action:
What Will I Do?
Implementation & presentation. Leadership planning, pitching ideas, and committing to a next step. Participants leave with a personal leadership statement and a plan they can actually use.
DELIVERY
Virtual · Live Facilitator · Live Coach Interactions · Cohort-Based Learning
Full Scholarship Available · Certificate Upon Completion
THE UBUNTU PROMISE
I am because we are.
When you join this workshop, you don't just gain skills. You join a circle. A growing community of young leaders from Ghana to Barbados, from London to Maryland, who are choosing to lead now, with their whole selves, their full heritage, and each other.
Letter for parental permission
