Meet Our LIT Scholars
Meet the young people preparing to lead, serve, and create opportunities for others.
LEADERS IN TRAINING (LIT)
Leadership starts long before the title.
Equipping young scholars with the confidence, character, relationships, and skills to positively influence their lives, their communities, and the world around them.
OUR MISSION
To build strong relationships to impact our environment, community, and the world by improving our academics, self-esteem, and making righteous decisions.
WHAT IS LIT?
More than a leadership program
A place to learn, connect, grow, serve, and lead.
Leaders in Training (LIT) is the youth leadership initiative of the Carlo and Nika White Foundation in partnership with Legacy Early College.
Through mentorship, interactive lessons, meaningful conversations, community service, wellness, academic development, and exposure to new experiences, scholars learn that leadership isn't reserved for adults or people with titles.
Leadership is influence—and they already have it.
EVERYONE HAS INFLUENCE.
How will you use yours?
LIT challenges scholars to understand that their choices, words, habits, relationships, and actions influence the people and environments around them.
This connects directly into the leadership curriculum.
THE LIT FRAMEWORK
The 4 Ws of Leadership
Leadership isn't something we simply talk about. It's something we practice.
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Take care of the leader within.
Developing the physical, mental, emotional, and social wellness necessary to show up fully for ourselves and others.
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What you say has power.
Understanding how what we listen to, read, speak, and write shapes our relationships, decisions, and environments.
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Growth requires work.
Building discipline, consistency, accountability, and ownership of our academics, responsibilities, and goals.
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Leadership adds value to others.
Learning to recognize the needs around us and use our gifts, opportunities, and influence to make a difference.
