Cultural Leadership, and the world, mourns the death of another social justice leader this year. For more than a decade, Justice Ginsberg made time to meet with Cultural Leadership students each summer during their Transformational Journey. She was always willing to have open dialogues with students, detailing the hard road to justice, times she succeeded, times she failed, and always inspiring them to fight for what they believed in.

When meeting Justice Ginsburg for the first time, students were often surprised at how such might could come in the form of such a tiny woman. Students have commented how just meeting her and learning about her pursuit of justice motivated them to pursue their own dreams and support the under-represented.

Justice Ginsburg’s actions and ideas will continue to light a path for Cultural Leadership’s young leaders and change-makers. We thank her for all that she’s done and all who she’s inspired. May she rest in peace and power.

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  Class 12 with Justice Ginsburg; Class 12 students were filmed with Justice Ginsburg and featured in RGB, the Oscar nominated documentary.

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  Class 14 with Justice Ginsburg

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  Justice Ginsburg speaks to Cultural Leadership students.

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  Class 8 with Justice Ginsburg

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  Class 6 with Justice Ginsburg

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  Cultural Leadership students meet with Justice Ginsburg

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  Class 13 with Justice Ginsburg

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  Making the documentary film "RBG," in which Class 12 students appear.

Rep. John Robert Lewis is gone, but will never be forgotten.

For more than 15 years, Congressman Lewis met with the students of Cultural Leadership each summer during their Transformational Journey. He shared his story of growing up in rural Alabama and raising and preaching to chickens. He told us about his march across the bridge at Selma, about speaking to hundreds of thousands at the March on Washington, and about fearing for his life on the Freedom Rides.

He inspired our students with his insistence that they, too, can be leaders – telling them that they have “a moral obligation, a mission, and a mandate to speak up and speak out and get in good trouble. You can do it. You must do it.”

We will stand on his shoulders and continue the work. May he rest in freedom.

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  Rep. John Lewis with members of Cultural Leadership Class 4.

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  Rep. John Lewis speaks with members of Cultural Leadership Class 14.

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  Rep. John Lewis posing with Cultural Leadership Class 12.

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  Rep. John Lewis sharing his story with Cultural Leadership Class 9.

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  Cultural Leadership students of Class 13 walk across the Edmund Pettus Bridge.

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  Cultural Leadership Class 11 traces the footsteps of Rep. John Lewis across Edmund Pettus Bridge.

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  Rep. John Lewis speaks with Cultural Leadership Class 3.

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  Rep. John Lewis poses with Cultural Leadership Class 10.