2010: BY THE NUMBERS A YEAR OF CHALLENGE , GROWTH AND IMPACT Delegates completed their assessment of the program at the Lead for Diversity is a yearlong commitment to personal growth, peer conclusion of their Lead for Diversity session. leadership development and school improvement. During the summer, teams of up to four students from high schools throughout the state Delegate Survey participate in a week-long peer leadership program designed to prepare Strongly As a Result of Attending Lead for Diversity 2010: them to make decisions based on an appreciation of the diversity— Agree/Agree including ethnic, racial, faith, and gender identity—within their schools I am more open to having friends of different races, genders, and communities. sexual orientations, religions, and ethnicities 100.0%

In the summer of 2010 student teams from 29 charter, non-charter I have an increased understanding and appreciation for people of different races, genders, sexual orientations, public, and private high schools, and their advisors, made the religions, & ethnicities 100.0% commitment to create positive change in their schools and I have an increased understanding of the effects of neighborhoods, identifying opportunities to apply the awareness they stereotypes and assumptions 100.0% gained. They developed Action Plans that will be implemented throughout I have a better understanding of the pain some people feel the school year, helping to create inclusive school and neighborhood because of discrimination 100.0% communities. I am more aware of my own stereotypes and prejudices 100.0% During the school year, Lead for Diversity teams come together for I have learned skills that help me to work for causes and advanced peer leadership training to share their Action Plans and issues in which I believe 98.1% strategies. During the 2010-2011 academic year, it is estimated that I am more aware of how I deal with conflicts and have good student-led Action Plans, intended to affect their school populations, will strategies for working through conflict with others 99.0% impact close to 21,000 students throughout . I will be able to contribute to people getting along better at my school 98.0% 2010 Lead for Diversity Participant Schools and Organizations: I feel comfortable that I can use the skills and knowledge I have learned when I return to my school 96.1% Absegami High School Marist High School I would recommend Lead for Diversity to a friend 100.0% Marlboro High School Bergen County Technical-Teterboro Memorial High School (West New York) Who Came in 2010? Colts Neck High School Moorestown Friends School 29 High Schools: 114 Students Total: Faith Franklin High School North Star Academy 2 Rural 60% Female Demographics: Freehold Boro High School 17 Suburban 40% Male 8% Agnostic Freehold Township High School Roselle Park High School 10 Urban 1% Atheist Gill St. Bernard’s School St. Benedict’s Preparatory 64% Christian Haddonfield Memorial High School Saint Vincent Academy 11 Central NJ Racial Demographics: 2% Hindu Henry Snyder High School 15 Northern NJ 1% American Indian, 6% Jewish Howell High School Spotswood High School 3 Southern NJ Native American 3% Muslim Kearny High School University Academy Charter High School 7% Asian 11% None Warren Hills Regional High School 2 Charter 12% Biracial, Multiracial 1% Sikh Lakewood High School William L. Dickinson High School 6 Private 18% Black, African American 2% Spiritual Manalapan High School 21 Public 22% Latino(a), Hispanic 2% Other 2% Middle Eastern Grade Levels: 35% White Sexual 18 Sophomores 4% Other Orientation: 32 Juniors 3% Bisexual 64 Seniors 3% Fluid 1% Gay 90% Heterosexual 1% Lesbian 3% Other IN THEIR OWN WORDS … LEAD FOR DIV ERS ITY “The most important part of Lead for Diversity was that it helped me have a different outlook and perspective for people and life. Everything was perfect and I wish I could go back for more.” - Nicolette Rallo “I really enjoyed this experience. I am kind of upset it is over, but I plan to stay in touch with everyone and bring the lessons I learned at LFD home with me and spread what I've learned into my community.” - Jabari Sterling “I am leaving LFD with so much knowledge, the realization of my responsibility to humanity, inspiration, courage, and hope. I got much more out of it than I expected to. LFD was a defining moment of my life. I learned that everyone is subject to some type of discrimination…but this also gives everyone the capacity for empathy. I am truly impressed by this program. I cannot express how privileged and fortunate I feel for having been able to come here.” - Angel Shin “I went into LFD thinking it was pointless and that I couldn't learn anything. EXPERIENCE Today, I know how wrong I was. I've made friends with people who were vastly different from me. Learning about my gender has impacted me so deeply. I know now that it's okay to show emotions, something I had never American Conference on Diversity done.” - Austin Root Youth Leadership Institute “I will come home hoping to teach all my friends and family what I learned at Thank you to our Partners in Education for their support! LFD.” - Mahieddine Belarbi BENEFACTORS PATRONS “It was overall an amazing experience. I learned that prejudice is beyond Fidelity Investments Bank of America race / ethnicity, which was truly meaningful to me in order to begin to make a Goldman Sachs & Co. New Jersey Resources change. Overall, I'm comfortable & confident enough with myself to make a RBC Foundation USA PSE&G difference / change.” RBC Wealth Management Schumann Fund for New Jersey - Stefany Araujo Victoria Foundation Unilever Violet Zall Hordes Foundation “It was a personal challenge, however, I'm so very thankful!! I want to go back to LFD. It needs to be expanded to multiple [advanced] levels.” SCHOOL SPONSOR STUDENT LEADERSHIP SPONSOR - Paris Murray Page Hill Foundation Elberon Development Co. “The most important part for me was having the ability to learn about so many different backgrounds and cultures and identities. It opened my eyes to DELEGATE SPONSOR CONTRIBUTING SPONSOR new ideas and helped me overcome prejudices that I didn't realize I had. This Investors Savings Bank Foundation Friends of Tom Turney experience has made me a better person. Lead for Diversity was the best Kari Osmond experience of my life. I have grown and matured a thousand times over in Sage Foundation such a short amount of time and I have this program to thank for that.” - Ava Smith 109 Church St. • New Brunswick, NJ 08901 732-745-9330 www.americanconferenceondiversity.org