SLB members in front of a mural project, 2024.
Student Leadership Board 2025-2026
Applications due by Tuesday, September 2, 2025
Developing compassionate leaders through education and action | Get involved and make a difference!
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Program details
Who should join the Student Leadership Board?
- Students in the state of Washington who are able to attend meetings in person in one of the following locations: Seattle, Spokane, or Southwest Washington
- Grades 7-12
- From any and all backgrounds, ethnicities, and religions
- Passionate and motivated students who want to collaborate on activism, volunteering, and project-based learning
- Students interested to dive deeper to learn about the Holocaust and other genocides
What does the Student Leadership Board do? What's the commitment?
- Participate in meetings twice a month. These meetings will be in person. The Seattle SLB will meet at the Holocaust Center in downtown Seattle on Wednesday afternoons. The Spokane and Southwest Washington SLBs will meet in TBD locations and times in their local areas.
- Work together to carry out projects that support the Holocaust Center's mission and provide real-world leadership experience
- Volunteer at several Holocaust Center events throughout the year
- Provide feedback on the Holocaust Center's programs and serve as ambassadors
- Hear and learn from community members, Holocaust and genocide survivors and their descendants, and other leaders
- Serve on the Student Leadership Board from September 2025 through June 2026
What are the goals of the Student Leadership Board?
- SLB members will enhance their historical understanding of the Holocaust and other genocides
- Members will be able to understand and make connections between the Holocaust, other historic genocides or injustices, and those going on today
- Members will collaborate as part of a group or team
- Members will feel empowered, supported, and comfortable assuming a leadership role amongst their fellow SLB members
- Members will be more inclined to speak out or be an upstander if they see a wrong occurring around them
Your Local SLB
SEATTLE
Applications Closed - Check Back in Spring
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SPOKANE
Led by Justin Farley. Justin Farley is a middle school ELA Teacher at Peperzak Middle School (and an AP high school history teacher with Spokane Virtual Academy). He has been in secondary education for nearly a decade (in non-profit and social work for many years before that). He is a husband to an incredibly gifted wife and four wonderful children. Justin has partnered with the Holocaust Center for the last five years and is honored to facilitate the Student Leadership Board for the Spokane Chapter.
KALAMA
Led by Michael Ready. Michael is a high school teacher at Kalama High School teaching both history and theater. He has worked closely with the Holocaust Center since 2019, is a Powell Fellow, and participated in the Center’s trip to Poland in the summer of 2024.
APPLICATIONS CLOSED - CHECK BACK IN SPRING
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Student retreat details
Our 2025-2026 retreat will be held at Camp Solomon Schechter, near Olympia, WA. The retreat will run from Friday, October 10 - Sunday, October 12, 2025. The retreat will be open to all accepted SLB students in Seattle, Spokane, and Southwest Washington and will be free to all participants. Programming, meals, and accommodations included!
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This program is made possible thanks to the generous support of George Elbaum and Mimi Jensen, Paul and Leora Bloom, and Errol and Ruth Ann Ger. Special thanks also goes to the Henry M. Jackson Foundation.
