The Asian Pacific American Leadership Training Institute (APALTI) is a student-facilitated and MSS-sponsored leadership development program for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd year students interested in exploring leadership through the lens of the APISAA (Asian, Pacific Islander, South Asian American) student experience. The 10-week cohort-based program meets for 2 hours a week in the Spring Semester and culminates in a symposium. Recruitment usually occurs in September, ahead of the program's start in the spring.

APALTI is a leadership development program based on the Social Change Model of Leadership and infuses concepts of cultural identity within the curriculum. Within the 10-week program, students are able to learn about their leadership identity and efficacy in the context of their cultural identity(ies) through a number of activities, workshops, speakers, projects, and other educational tools. The hope for the program is that each participant will be able to understand their capabilities of creating social positive change and that each understand that leadership and social change is a process, rather than a position.

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Applications for the 2024-2025 APALTI cohort are no longer being accepted.  Applications for the 2025-2026 cohort will open in September 2025. 

For more info or questions, email [email protected] or Dashan Axson-Lawrence, Assistant Director for Multicultural Student Services, at [email protected].